The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto Iii. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Preludes	A
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I The Lover	B
He meets by heavenly chance express	C
The destined maid some hidden hand	D
Unveils to him that loveliness	C
Which others cannot understand	D
His merits in her presence grow	E
To match the promise in her eyes	C
And round her happy footsteps blow	E
The authentic airs of Paradise	C
For joy of her he cannot sleep	F
Her beauty haunts him all the night	G
It melts his heart it makes him weep	F
For wonder worship and delight	G
O paradox of love he longs	C
Most humble when he most aspires	C
To suffer scorn and cruel wrongs	C
From her he honours and desires	C
Her graces make him rich and ask	H
No guerdon this imperial style	I
Affronts him he disdains to bask	H
The pensioner of her priceless smile	I
He prays for some hard thing to do	J
Some work of fame and labour immense	C
To stretch the languid bulk and thew	J
Of love's fresh born magnipotence	C
No smallest boon were bought too dear	K
Though barter'd for his love sick life	L
Yet trusts he with undaunted cheer	K
To vanquish heaven and call her Wife	L
He notes how queens of sweetness still	M
Neglect their crowns and stoop to mate	N
How self consign'd with lavish will	M
They ask but love proportionate	O
How swift pursuit by small degrees	C
Love's tactic works like miracle	P
How valour clothed in courtesies	C
Brings down the haughtiest citadel	Q
And therefore though he merits not	R
To kiss the braid upon her skirt	S
His hope discouraged ne'er a jot	R
Out soars all possible desert	S
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II Love a Virtue	J
Strong passions mean weak will and he	T
Who truly knows the strength and bliss	C
Which are in love will own with me	T
No passion but a virtue 'tis	C
Few hear my word it soars above	U
The subtlest senses of the swarm	V
Of wretched things which know not love	U
Their Psyche still a wingless worm	W
Ice cold seems heaven's noble glow	E
To spirits whose vital heat is hell	Q
And to corrupt hearts even so	E
The songs I sing the tale I tell	Q
These cannot see the robes of white	G
In which I sing of love Alack	H
But darkness shows in heavenly light	G
Though whiteness in the dark is black	H
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III Unthrift	G
Ah wasteful woman she who may	X
On her sweet self set her own price	C
Knowing man cannot choose but pay	X
How has she cheapen'd paradise	C
How given for nought her priceless gift	G
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine	Y
Which spent with due respective thrift	G
Had made brutes men and men divine	Y
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IV The Attainment	G
You love That's high as you shall go	H
For 'tis as true as Gospel text	G
Not noble then is never so	H
Either in this world or the next	G
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Honoria	Z
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I	-
Grown weary with a week's exile	I
From those fair friends I rode to see	T
The church restorings lounged awhile	I
And met the Dean was ask'd to tea	T
And found their cousin Frederick Graham	A2
At Honor's side Was I concern'd	G
If when she sang his colour came	B2
That mine as with a buffet burn'd	G
A man to please a girl thought I	-
Retorting his forced smiles the shrouds	C
Of wrath so hid as she was by	-
Sweet moon between her lighted clouds	C
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II	-
Whether this Cousin was the cause	C
I know not but I seem'd to see	T
The first time then how fair she was	C
How much the fairest of the three	T
Each stopp'd to let the other go	H
But time bound he arose the first	G
Stay'd he in Sarum long If so	H
I hoped to see him at the Hurst	G
No he had call'd here on his way	X
To Portsmouth where the Arrogant	G
His ship was he should leave next day	X
For two years' cruise in the Levant	G
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II	-
Had love in her yet struck its germs	C
I watch'd Her farewell show'd me plain	C2
She loved on the majestic terms	C
That she should not be loved again	D2
And so her cousin parting felt	G
Hope in his voice and eye was dead	G
Compassion did my malice melt	G
Then went I home to a restless bed	G
I who admired her too could see	T
His infinite remorse at this	C
Great mystery that she should be	T
So beautiful yet not be his	C
And pitying long'd to plead his part	G
But scarce could tell so strange my whim	E2
Whether the weight upon my heart	G
Was sorrow for myself or him	E2
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IV	U
She was all mildness yet 'twas writ	G
In all her grace most legibly	I
He that's for heaven itself unfit	G
Let him not hope to merit me	T
And such a challenge quite apart	G
From thoughts of love humbled and thus	C
To sweet repentance moved my heart	G
And made me more magnanimous	C
And led me to review my life	U
Inquiring where in aught the least	G
If question were of her for wife	U
Ill might be mended hope increas'd	G
Not that I soar'd so far above	U
Myself as this great hope to dare	F2
And yet I well foresaw that love	U
Might hope where reason must despair	F2
And half resenting the sweet pride	G
Which would not ask me to admire	G2
Oh to my secret heart I sigh'd	G
That I were worthy to desire	B
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V	T
As drowsiness my brain reliev'd	G
A shrill defiance of all to arms	C
Shriek'd by the stable cock receiv'd	G
An angry answer from three farms	C
And then I dream'd that I her knight	G
A clarion's haughty pathos heard	G
And rode securely to the fight	G
Cased in the scarf she had conferr'd	G
And there the bristling lists behind	G
Saw many and vanquish'd all I saw	C
Of her unnumber'd cousin kind	G
In Navy Army Church and Law	C
Smitten the warriors somehow turn'd	G
To Sarum choristers whose song	H
Mix'd with celestial sorrow yearn'd	G
With joy no memory can prolong	H
And phantasms as absurd and sweet	G
Merged each in each in endless chace	C
And everywhere I seem'd to meet	G
The haunting fairness of her face	C

Coventry Patmore

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