Stella Maris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEFFAAGGHHI IJJEEKK CCLLMMNNOEPPQQKKRRHH SS OOTTKKUUVVJJWWEE

Why is it I remember yetA
You of all women one has metA
In random wayfare as one meetsB
The chance romances of the streetsB
The Juliet of a night I knowC
Your heart holds many a RomeoC
And I who call to mind your faceD
In so serene a pausing placeD
Where the bright pure expanse of seaE
The shadowy shore's austerityE
Seems a reproach to you and meE
I too have sought on many a breastF
The ecstasy of love's unrestF
I too have had my dreams and metA
Ah me how many a JulietA
Why is it then that I recallG
You neither first nor last of allG
For surely as I see tonightH
The glancing of the lighthouse lightH
Against the sky across the bayI
As turn by turn it falls my wayI
So surely do I see your eyesJ
Out of the empty night ariseJ
Child you arise and smile to meE
Out of the night out of the seaE
The Nereid of a moment thereK
And is it seaweed in your hairK
-
O lost and wrecked how long agoC
Out of the drown d past I knowC
You come to call me come to claimL
My share of your delicious shameL
Child I remember and can tellM
One night we loved each other wellM
And one night's love at least or mostN
Is not so small a thing to boastN
You were adorable and IO
Adored you to infinityE
That nuptial night too briefly borneP
To the oblivion of mornP
Oh no oblivion for I feelQ
Your lips deliriously stealQ
Along my neck and fasten thereK
I feel the perfume of your hairK
And your soft breast that heaves and dipsR
Desiring my desirous lipsR
And that ineffable delightH
When souls turn bodies and uniteH
In the intolerable the wholeS
Rapture of the embodied soulS
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That joy was ours we passed it byO
You have forgotten me and IO
Remember you thus strangely wonT
An instant from oblivionT
And I remembering would declareK
That joy not shame is ours to shareK
Joy that we had the will and powerU
In spite of fate to snatch one hourU
Out of vague nights and days at strifeV
So infinitely full of lifeV
And 'tis for this I see you riseJ
A wraith with starlight in your eyesJ
Here where the drowsy minded moodW
Is one with Nature's solitudeW
For this for this you come to meE
Out of the night out of the seaE

Arthur Symons



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