Love Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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HOW beautiful doth the morning riseB
O er the hills as from her bower a brideC
Comes brightened blushing with the shame faced prideC
Of love that now consummated suppliesB
All her full heart can wish and to the eyesB
Dear are the flowers then in their green haunts spiedC
Glist ning with dew pleasant at noon the sideC
Of shadowy mountains ridging to the skiesB
At eve tis sweet to hear the breeze advanceD
Through the responding forest dense and tallE
And sweeter in the moonlight is the danceD
And natural music of the waterfallE
And yet we feel not the full charm of allE
Till love be near us with his magic glanceD
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IIA
WHY tower my spirits and what means this wildF
Commotion at my heart this dreamy chaseG
Of possible joys that glow like stars in spaceG
Now feel I even to all things reconciledF
As all were one in spirit Rudely up piledF
Brown hills grow beautiful a novel graceG
Exalts the moorland s once unmeaning faceG
The river that like a pure mind beguiledF
Grows purer for its errors and the treesH
That fringe its margin with a dusky shadeI
Seem robed in fairy wonder and are theseH
Exalted thus because with me surveyedI
By one sweet sould whom well they seem to pleaseH
Here at my side an almost stranger maidI
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IIIA
NOW sunny as the noontide heavens areJ
The eyes of my sweet friend and now sereneK
And chastely shadowy in their maiden mienK
Or dream power sparkling like a brilliant starJ
Fills all their blue depths taking me afarJ
To where in the rich past through song is seenK
Some sovereign beauty knighthood s mystic queenK
Pluming with love the iron brows of warL
Bright eyes before with subtle lightning glanceD
Have kindled all my being into oneM
Wild tumult but a charm thus to enhanceD
My heart s love loyalty till now had noneM
And can this witchery be the work of chanceD
I know not I but know my rest is goneN
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IVO
A VAST and shadowy hope breaks up my restP
Unspoken nor dares even my pen to writeQ
How my pent spirit pineth day and nightQ
For one fair love with whom I might be blestP
And ever with vague jealousies possessedP
The more I languish feeling these may soR
Oppress affection that for very woeR
She longs at last to die deep buried in my breastP
O for a beaker of the wine of loveO
Or a deep draught of the Leth an waveO
The power a mutual passion to emoveO
Or that repose which sealeth up the graveO
Yet these my bonds are blameless one more wiseB
Had dreamt away his freedom dreaming of her eyesB
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VO
HER image haunts me Lo I muse at evenS
And straight it gathers from the gloom to makeT
My soul its mirror which as some still lakeT
Holds pictured in its depths the face of heavenM
Through the hushed night retains it when tis givenM
To take a warmer presence and inclineU
A glowing cheek burning with love to mineU
Saying The heart for which thou long hast stivenU
With looks so fancy pale I grant thee nowU
And if for ruth yet more for love s sweet sakeT
My lips shall seal this promise on thy browU
Thus blest in sleep oh Who would care to wakeT
When the cold real from his belief must shakeT
Such vows like blossoms from a shattered boughU
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VIO
SHE loves me From her own bliss breathing lipsV
The live confession came like rich perfumeW
From crimson petals bursting into bloomW
And still my heart at the remembrance skipsV
Like a young lion and my tongue too tripsV
As drunk with joy While very object seenU
In life s diurnal round wears in its mienU
A clear assurance that no doubts eclipseV
And if the common things of nature nowU
Are like old faces flushed with new delightQ
Much more the consciousness of that rich vowU
Deepens the beauteous and refines the brightQ
While throned I seem on love s divinest heightQ
Mid all the glories glowing round its browU
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FAIR as the day a genial day sereneU
Of early summer when the vital airX
Breathes as twere God s own breath and blossoms rareX
Fill many a bush or nestle in betweenU
The heapy folds of nature s mantle greenU
As they were happier for the joint joy thereX
Of birds and bees so genial and so fairX
And rich in pleasure is my life s sole queenU
My spirit in the sunshine of her graceG
Glows with intenser being and my veinsY
Fill as with nectar In your pride of placeG
Ye mighty boast Ye rich heap gold spaceG
I envy nor your grandeur nor your gainsY
Thus gazing at the heaven of her faceG
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VIIIU
FAIR as the night when all the astral firesZ
Of heaven are burning in the clear expanseD
My love is and her eyes like star depths glanceD
Lustrous with glowing thoughts and pure desiresZ
And that mysterious pathos which inspiresA2
All moods divine in mortal passion s tranceD
All that its earthly music doth enhanceD
As with the rapture of seraphic lyresD
I gaze upon her till the atmosphereB2
Sweetens intensely and to my charmed sightQ
All fair associated forms appearB2
Swimming in joy as swim yon orbs in lightQ
And all sweet sounds though common to mine earC2
Chime up like silver winged dreams in flightQ
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IXD
TO DAY we part I far away to dwellD2
From this the scene that saw our bud of loveU
Bloom into rosehood The blue heavens aboveU
These hills and valleys with each rocky dellD2
Echo s dim hold shall these retain no spellD2
Of foregone passion Shall they speak no taleE2
Of grief they shrouded in this shaded valeE2
Shall they of all our joy the story tellD2
To morrow and the sun shall climb yon hillF2
Bright as before all winged things shall wakeT
To song as glad as if we listened stillF2
The stream as mirthfully its wild way makeT
But I pursuing fortune s wandering starJ
Shall see and hear them not from thee and them afarJ
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ABSENCED
NIGHTLY I watch the moon with silvery sheenU
Flaking the city house tops till I feelG2
Thy memory dear one like a presence stealG2
Down in her light for always in her mienU
Thy soul s similitude my soul hath seenU
And as she seemeth now a guardian sealG2
On heaven s far bliss upon my future wealG2
Even such thy truth is radiantly sereneU
But long my fancy may not entertainU
These bright resemblances for lo A cloudH2
Blots her away And in my breast the painU
Of absent love recurring pines aloudH2
When shall I look in thy bright eyes againU
O my beloved with like sadness bowedH2
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XID
THERE is a trying spirit in the driftI2
Of human life apportioning the prizeD
In that true quality wherein it liesD
ThatJ2

Charles Harpur



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