Deliciae Sapientiae De Amore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDEECEFGHIGIIGJ JKKGLLMNMNOPGGKKQKQC CRSKTTKUGVVGUUWGWXYG ZA2VKB2KB2VB2CKKKKGG A2A2KKKKGC2KC2D2E2KF 2F2NG2H2I2NKKH2KKH2K KJ2J2KKKKKKKK2KK2KKK KKG2A2A2VVVVGGAAKKKK KL2CCKKDLove light for me | A |
Thy ruddiest blazing torch | B |
That I albeit a beggar by the Porch | B |
Of the glad Palace of Virginity | A |
May gaze within k and sing the pomp I see | A |
For crown'd with roses all | C |
'Tis there O Love they keep thy festival | D |
But first warn off the beatific spot | E |
Those wretched who have not | E |
Even afar beheld the shining wall | C |
And those who once beholding have forgot | E |
And those most vile who dress | F |
The charnel spectre drear | G |
Of utterly dishallow'd nothingness | H |
In that refulgent fame | I |
And cry Lo here | G |
And name | I |
The Lady whose smiles inflame | I |
The sphere | G |
Bring Love anear And bid be not afraid | J |
Young Lover true and love foreboding Maid | J |
And wedded Spouse if virginal of thought | K |
for I will sing of nought | K |
Less sweet to hear | G |
Than seems | L |
A music their half remember'd dreams | L |
The magnet calls the steel | M |
Answers the iron to the magnet's breath | N |
What do they feel | M |
But death | N |
The clouds of summer kiss in flame and rain | O |
And are not found again | P |
But the heavens themselves eternal are with fire | G |
Of unapproach'd desire | G |
By the aching heart of Love which cannot rest | K |
In blissfullest pathos so indeed possess'd | K |
O spousals high | Q |
O doctrine blest | K |
Unutterable in even the happiest sigh | Q |
This know ye all | C |
Who can recall | C |
With what a welling of indignant tears | R |
LOve's simpleness first hears | S |
The meaning of his mortal covenant | K |
And from what pride comes down | T |
To wear the crown | T |
Of which 'twas very heaven to feel the want | K |
How envies he the ways | U |
Of yonder hopeless star | G |
And so would laugh and yearn | V |
With trembling lids eterne | V |
Ineffably content from infinitely far | G |
Only to gaze | U |
On his bright Mistress's responding rays | U |
That never know eclipse | W |
And once in his long year With praeternuptial ecstasy and fear | G |
By the delicious law of that ellipse | W |
Wherein all citizens of ether move | X |
With hastening pace to come | Y |
Nearer though never near | G |
His Love | Z |
And always inaccessible sweet Home | A2 |
There on his path doubly to burn | V |
Kiss'd by her doubled light | K |
That whispers of its source | B2 |
The ardent secret ever clothed with Night | K |
Then go forth in new force | B2 |
Towards a new return | V |
Rejoicing as a Bridegroom on his course | B2 |
This know ye all | C |
Therefore gaze bold | K |
That so in you be joyful hope increas'd | K |
Thorough the Palace portals and behold | K |
The dainty and unsating Marriage Feast | K |
O hear | G |
Them singing clear | G |
'Cor meum et caro mea'round the 'I am' | A2 |
The Husband of the Heavens and the Lamb | A2 |
Whom they for ever follow there that kept | K |
Or losing never slept | K |
Till they reconquer'd had in mortal fight | K |
The standard white | K |
O hear | G |
From the harps they bore from Earth five strung what music springs | C2 |
While the glad Spirits chide | K |
The wondering strings | C2 |
And how the shining sacrificial Choirs | D2 |
Offering for aye their dearest hearts' desires | E2 |
Which to their hearts come back beatified | K |
Hymn the bright aisles along | F2 |
The nuptial song | F2 |
Song ever new to us and them that saith | N |
'Hail Virgin in Virginity a Spouse ' | G2 |
Heard first below | H2 |
Within the little house | I2 |
At Nazareth | N |
Heard yet in many a cell where brides of Christ | K |
Lie hid emparadised | K |
And where although | H2 |
By the hour 'tis night | K |
There's light | K |
The Day still lingering in the lap of snow | H2 |
Gaze and be not afraid | K |
Ye wedded few that honour in sweet thought | K |
And glittering will | J2 |
So freshly from the garden gather still | J2 |
The lily sacrificed | K |
For ye though self suspected here for nought | K |
Are highly styled | K |
With the thousands twelve times twelve of undefiled | K |
Gaze and be not afraid | K |
Young Lover true and love foreboding Maid | K |
The full Moon of deific vision bright | K |
Abashes nor abates | K2 |
No spark minute of Nature's keen delight | K |
'Tis there your Hymen waits | K2 |
There wher in courts afar all unconfused they crowd | K |
As fumes the starlight soft | K |
In gulfs of cloud | K |
And each to the other well content | K |
Sighs oft | K |
''Twas this we meant ' | G2 |
Gaze without blame | A2 |
Ye in whom living Love yet blushes for dead shame | A2 |
There of pure Virgins none | V |
Is fairer seen | V |
Save One | V |
Than Mary Magdalene | V |
Gaze without doubt or fear | G |
Ye to whom generous Love by any name is dear | G |
Love makes the life to be | A |
A fount perpetual of virginity | A |
For lo the Elect | K |
Of generous Love how named soe'er affect | K |
Nothing but God | K |
Or mediate or direct | K |
Nothing but God | K |
The Husband of the Heavens | L2 |
And who Him love in potence great or small | C |
Are one and all | C |
Heirs of the Palace glad | K |
And inly clad | K |
With the bridal robes of ardour virginal | D |
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