Love Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBDEDEED AFGGFFGGFHIHIHI AJKKJJKKLDMDMDN OPQQPPRRPOOOOBB OSTTMMUUUUTUTTU OVWWVVUUVUQUQQU UUXXUUXXUGYGGYG UZDDZA2DDDB2QB2QC2Q DD2UUD2D2E2E2D2F2TF2 TJJ DDUG2G2UUG2G2UUH2UH2 UH2 DI2DDJ2I | A |
HOW beautiful doth the morning rise | B |
O er the hills as from her bower a bride | C |
Comes brightened blushing with the shame faced pride | C |
Of love that now consummated supplies | B |
All her full heart can wish and to the eyes | B |
Dear are the flowers then in their green haunts spied | C |
Glist ning with dew pleasant at noon the side | C |
Of shadowy mountains ridging to the skies | B |
At eve tis sweet to hear the breeze advance | D |
Through the responding forest dense and tall | E |
And sweeter in the moonlight is the dance | D |
And natural music of the waterfall | E |
And yet we feel not the full charm of all | E |
Till love be near us with his magic glance | D |
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II | A |
WHY tower my spirits and what means this wild | F |
Commotion at my heart this dreamy chase | G |
Of possible joys that glow like stars in space | G |
Now feel I even to all things reconciled | F |
As all were one in spirit Rudely up piled | F |
Brown hills grow beautiful a novel grace | G |
Exalts the moorland s once unmeaning face | G |
The river that like a pure mind beguiled | F |
Grows purer for its errors and the trees | H |
That fringe its margin with a dusky shade | I |
Seem robed in fairy wonder and are these | H |
Exalted thus because with me surveyed | I |
By one sweet sould whom well they seem to please | H |
Here at my side an almost stranger maid | I |
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III | A |
NOW sunny as the noontide heavens are | J |
The eyes of my sweet friend and now serene | K |
And chastely shadowy in their maiden mien | K |
Or dream power sparkling like a brilliant star | J |
Fills all their blue depths taking me afar | J |
To where in the rich past through song is seen | K |
Some sovereign beauty knighthood s mystic queen | K |
Pluming with love the iron brows of war | L |
Bright eyes before with subtle lightning glance | D |
Have kindled all my being into one | M |
Wild tumult but a charm thus to enhance | D |
My heart s love loyalty till now had none | M |
And can this witchery be the work of chance | D |
I know not I but know my rest is gone | N |
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IV | O |
A VAST and shadowy hope breaks up my rest | P |
Unspoken nor dares even my pen to write | Q |
How my pent spirit pineth day and night | Q |
For one fair love with whom I might be blest | P |
And ever with vague jealousies possessed | P |
The more I languish feeling these may so | R |
Oppress affection that for very woe | R |
She longs at last to die deep buried in my breast | P |
O for a beaker of the wine of love | O |
Or a deep draught of the Leth an wave | O |
The power a mutual passion to emove | O |
Or that repose which sealeth up the grave | O |
Yet these my bonds are blameless one more wise | B |
Had dreamt away his freedom dreaming of her eyes | B |
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V | O |
HER image haunts me Lo I muse at even | S |
And straight it gathers from the gloom to make | T |
My soul its mirror which as some still lake | T |
Holds pictured in its depths the face of heaven | M |
Through the hushed night retains it when tis given | M |
To take a warmer presence and incline | U |
A glowing cheek burning with love to mine | U |
Saying The heart for which thou long hast stiven | U |
With looks so fancy pale I grant thee now | U |
And if for ruth yet more for love s sweet sake | T |
My lips shall seal this promise on thy brow | U |
Thus blest in sleep oh Who would care to wake | T |
When the cold real from his belief must shake | T |
Such vows like blossoms from a shattered bough | U |
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VI | O |
SHE loves me From her own bliss breathing lips | V |
The live confession came like rich perfume | W |
From crimson petals bursting into bloom | W |
And still my heart at the remembrance skips | V |
Like a young lion and my tongue too trips | V |
As drunk with joy While very object seen | U |
In life s diurnal round wears in its mien | U |
A clear assurance that no doubts eclipse | V |
And if the common things of nature now | U |
Are like old faces flushed with new delight | Q |
Much more the consciousness of that rich vow | U |
Deepens the beauteous and refines the bright | Q |
While throned I seem on love s divinest height | Q |
Mid all the glories glowing round its brow | U |
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VII | U |
FAIR as the day a genial day serene | U |
Of early summer when the vital air | X |
Breathes as twere God s own breath and blossoms rare | X |
Fill many a bush or nestle in between | U |
The heapy folds of nature s mantle green | U |
As they were happier for the joint joy there | X |
Of birds and bees so genial and so fair | X |
And rich in pleasure is my life s sole queen | U |
My spirit in the sunshine of her grace | G |
Glows with intenser being and my veins | Y |
Fill as with nectar In your pride of place | G |
Ye mighty boast Ye rich heap gold space | G |
I envy nor your grandeur nor your gains | Y |
Thus gazing at the heaven of her face | G |
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VIII | U |
FAIR as the night when all the astral fires | Z |
Of heaven are burning in the clear expanse | D |
My love is and her eyes like star depths glance | D |
Lustrous with glowing thoughts and pure desires | Z |
And that mysterious pathos which inspires | A2 |
All moods divine in mortal passion s trance | D |
All that its earthly music doth enhance | D |
As with the rapture of seraphic lyres | D |
I gaze upon her till the atmosphere | B2 |
Sweetens intensely and to my charmed sight | Q |
All fair associated forms appear | B2 |
Swimming in joy as swim yon orbs in light | Q |
And all sweet sounds though common to mine ear | C2 |
Chime up like silver winged dreams in flight | Q |
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IX | D |
TO DAY we part I far away to dwell | D2 |
From this the scene that saw our bud of love | U |
Bloom into rosehood The blue heavens above | U |
These hills and valleys with each rocky dell | D2 |
Echo s dim hold shall these retain no spell | D2 |
Of foregone passion Shall they speak no tale | E2 |
Of grief they shrouded in this shaded vale | E2 |
Shall they of all our joy the story tell | D2 |
To morrow and the sun shall climb yon hill | F2 |
Bright as before all winged things shall wake | T |
To song as glad as if we listened still | F2 |
The stream as mirthfully its wild way make | T |
But I pursuing fortune s wandering star | J |
Shall see and hear them not from thee and them afar | J |
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X | D |
ABSENCE | D |
NIGHTLY I watch the moon with silvery sheen | U |
Flaking the city house tops till I feel | G2 |
Thy memory dear one like a presence steal | G2 |
Down in her light for always in her mien | U |
Thy soul s similitude my soul hath seen | U |
And as she seemeth now a guardian seal | G2 |
On heaven s far bliss upon my future weal | G2 |
Even such thy truth is radiantly serene | U |
But long my fancy may not entertain | U |
These bright resemblances for lo A cloud | H2 |
Blots her away And in my breast the pain | U |
Of absent love recurring pines aloud | H2 |
When shall I look in thy bright eyes again | U |
O my beloved with like sadness bowed | H2 |
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XI | D |
THERE is a trying spirit in the drift | I2 |
Of human life apportioning the prize | D |
In that true quality wherein it lies | D |
That | J2 |
Charles Harpur
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