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Le Léthé (lethe) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Viens sur mon coeur me cruelle et sourde	A
Tigre ador monstre aux airs indolents	B
Je veux longtemps plonger mes doigts tremblants	B
Dans l' paisseur de ta crini re lourde	A
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Dans tes jupons remplis de ton parfum	C
Ensevelir ma t te endolorie	D
Et respirer comme une fleur fl trie	D
Le doux relent de mon amour d funt	A
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Je veux dormir dormir plut t que vivre	D
Dans un sommeil aussi doux que la mort	A
J' talerai mes baisers sans remords	B
Sur ton beau corps poli comme le cuivre	D
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Pour engloutir mes sanglots apais s	B
Rien ne me vaut l'ab me de ta couche	E
L'oubli puissant habite sur ta bouche	E
Et le L th coule dans tes baisers	B
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mon destin d sormais mon d lice	B
J'ob irai comme un pr destin	F
Martyr docile innocent condamn	F
Dont la ferveur attise le supplice	B
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Je sucerai pour noyer ma rancoeur	D
Le n penth s et la bonne cigu	G
Aux bouts charmants de cette gorge aigu	G
Qui n'a jamais emprisonn de coeur	D
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Lethe	H
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Come lie upon my breast cruel insensitive soul	I
Adored tigress monster with the indolent air	D
I want to plunge trembling fingers for a long time	C
In the thickness of your heavy mane	F
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To bury my head full of pain	F
In your skirts redolent of your perfume	C
To inhale as from a withered flower	D
The moldy sweetness of my defunct love	J
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I wish to sleep to sleep rather than live	K
In a slumber doubtful as death	H
I shall remorselessly cover with my kisses	B
Your lovely body polished like copper	D
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To bury my subdued sobbing	G
Nothing equals the abyss of your bed	A
Potent oblivion dwells upon your lips	B
And Lethe flows in your kisses	B
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My fate hereafter my delight	A
I'll obey like one predestined	A
Docile martyr innocent man condemned	A
Whose fervor aggravates the punishment	A
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I shall suck to drown my rancor	D
Nepenthe and the good hemlock	G
From the charming tips of those pointed breasts	B
That have never guarded a heart	A
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Translated by William Aggeler	D
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Lethe	H
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Rest on my heart deaf cruel soul adored	A
Tigress and monster with the lazy air	D
I long in the black jungles of your hair	D
To force each finger thrilling like a sword	A
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Within wide skirts filled with your scent to hide	A
My bruised and battered forehead hour by hour	D
And breathe like dampness from a withered flower	D
The pleasant mildew of a love that died	A
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Rather than live I wish to sleep alas	B
Lulled in a slumber soft and dark as death	H
In ruthless kisses lavishing my breath	H
Upon your body smooth as burnished brass	B
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To swallow up my sorrows in eclipse	B
Nothing can match your couch's deep abysses	B
The stream of Lethe issues from your kisses	B
And powerful oblivion from your lips	B
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Like a predestined victim I submit	A
My doom to me henceforth is my delight	A
A willing martyr in my own despite	A
Whose fervour fans the faggots it has lit	A
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To drown my rancour and to heal its smart	A
Nepenthe and sweet hemlock peace and rest	A
I'll drink from the twin summits of a breast	A
That never lodged the semblance of a heart	A
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Translated by Roy Campbell	L
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Lethe	H
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Come to my arms cruel and sullen thing	G
Indolent beast come to my arms again	F
For I would plunge my fingers in your mane	F
And be a long time unremembering	G
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And bury myself in you and breathe your wild	A
Perfume remorselessly for one more hour	D
And breathe again as of a ruined flower	D
The fragrance of the love you have defiled	A
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I long to sleep I think that from a stark	G
Slumber like death I could awake the same	C
As I was once and lavish without shame	C
Caresses upon your body glowing and dark	G
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To drown my sorrow there is no abyss	B
However deep that can compare with your bed	A
Forgetfulness has made its country your red	A
Mouth and the flowing of Lethe is in your kiss	B
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My doom henceforward is my sole desire	D
As martyrs being demented in their zeal	M
Shake with delightful spasms upon the wheel	M
Implore the whip or puff upon the fire	D
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So I implore you fervently resigned	A
Come I would drink nepenthe and long rest	A
At the sweet points of this entrancing breast	A
Wherein no heart has ever been confined	A
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Translated by George Dillon	F
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Lethe	H
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Tigress adored indolent fiend lie there	D
There on my heart now merciless and strong	G
I wish to run my trembling fingers long	G
Through the black tangles of your heavy hair	D
To plunge my aching head amorous of	J
Your skirts as into secret perfumed bowers	B
To breathe your scent as from pale withered flowers	B
The after flavor of my defunct love	J
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I wish to sleep rather than live alas	B
In slumber deep and sweet as death O lover	D
As my fierce and remorseless kisses cover	D
Your lovely body bright as burnished brass	B
To bury my stilled sobs in the abysses	B
Of your anodyne bed to feast upon	F
Your lips that shed potent oblivion	F
To drink the Lethe flowing in your kisses	B
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I shall delight in following my fate	A
Obeying it gladly as a man contemned	A
O docile martyr innocent condemned	A
To tortures that his fervors aggravate	A
With suckling lips to quell my spleen and rancor	D
Nepenthe I shall drain and hemlock's sweets	B
Out of the magic tips of pointed teats	B
That never served a human heart for anchor	D
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	G
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Le L th	H
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come to my heart cold viper soul malign	F
beloved tiger hydra indolent	A
long will I drag my hands incontinent	A
and quivering through this vast loosed mane of thine	F
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long will I bury throbbing brow and head	A
among thy skirts all redolent of thee	H
and breathe a blighted flower of perfidy	H
the fading odour of my passion dead	A
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I'll sleep not live I'll lose myself in sleep	N
in slumber soft as Death's uncertain shore	D
I'll sleep and sow my drowsy kisses o'er	D
thy polished coppery arms and bosom deep	N
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to drown my sobs and still my spirit o	O
no boon but thine abysmal bed avails	B
poppied oblivion from thy mouth exhales	B
and through thy kisses floods of Lethe flow	O
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so to my doom henceforward my desire	D
I shall submit as one predestinate	A
and like a martyr calm immaculate	A
whose fervour prods again his flickering pyre	D
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I'll suck to drown my hate's eternal smart	A
Nepenthe and good bitter hemlock brew	D
from the sharp rose buds of thy breast anew	D
thy breast that never did contain a heart	A
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Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks	B
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Lethe	H
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Come on my heart cruel and insensible soul	I
My darling tiger beast with indolent airs	B
I want to plunge for hours my trembling fingers	B
In your thick and heavy mane	F
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In your petticoats filled with your perfume	C
To bury my aching head	A
And breathe like a faded flower	D
The sweet taste of my dead love	J
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I want to sleep to sleep and not to live	K
In a sleep as soft as death	H
I shall cover with remorseless kisses	B
Your body beautifully polished as copper	D
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To swallow my appeased sobbing	G
I need only the abyss of your bed	A
A powerful oblivion lives on your lips	B
And all Lethe flows in your kisses	B
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I shall obey as though predestined	A
My destiny that is now my delight	A
Submissive martyr innocent damned one	F
My ardor inflames my torture	D
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And I shall suck to drown my bitterness	B
The nepenthe and the good hemlock	G
On the lovely tips of those jutting breasts	B
Which have never imprisoned love	J
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TRanslated by Geoffrey Wagner	D
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Lethe	H
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Come to my heart cruel insensible one	F
Adored tiger monster with the indolent air	D
I would for a long time plunge my trembling fingers	B
Into the heavy tresses of your hair	D
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And in your garments that exhale your perfume	C
I would bury my aching head	A
And breathe like a withered flower	D
The sweet stale reek of my love that is dead	A
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I want to sleep sleep rather than live	K
And in a slumber dubious as the tomb's	B
I would lavish my kisses without remorse	B
Upon the burnished copper of your limbs	B
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To swallow my abated sobs	B
Nothing equals yo	O