The Victories Of Love. Book I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDEFFGGHHIIJJDD KKLLALHHKKMMJJNNAALL KKOOPQRRJJJJSSJJJJKK JJJJ AATTUUVVIIJJWWXXJJ JJYYJJKKZZAAJJA2B2 JJJJC2C2KKD2D2E2E2 RRMMF2G2JJH2H2JJ JJI2I2KKJJJ2J2CCJJK2 L2M2N2KKO2O2P2P2JJKD 2Q2R2SSJJKKFFKAS2S2F 2F2T2U2KKV2V2 DDW2W2JJNNJJJJKK AB FFJJJJD2D2R2X2JJJJY2 M2Z2Z2DDT2T2KKJJDDJJ JJA3A3JJB3B3 AI | A |
From Frederick Graham | B |
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Mother I smile at your alarms | C |
I own indeed my Cousin's charms | C |
But like all nursery maladies | D |
Love is not badly taken twice | E |
Have you forgotten Charlotte Hayes | F |
My playmate in the pleasant days | F |
At Knatchley and her sister Anne | G |
The twins so made on the same plan | G |
That one wore blue the other white | H |
To mark them to their father's sight | H |
And how at Knatchley harvesting | I |
You bade me kiss her in the ring | I |
Like Anne and all the others You | J |
That never of my sickness knew | J |
Will laugh yet had I the disease | D |
And gravely if the signs are these | D |
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As ere the Spring has any power | K |
The almond branch all turns to flower | K |
Though not a leaf is out so she | L |
The bloom of life provoked in me | L |
And hard till then and selfish I | A |
Was thenceforth nought but sanctity | L |
And service life was mere delight | H |
In being wholly good and right | H |
As she was just without a slur | K |
Honouring myself no less than her | K |
Obeying in the loneliest place | M |
Ev'n to the slightest gesture grace | M |
Assured that one so fair so true | J |
He only served that was so too | J |
For me hence weak towards the weak | N |
No more the unnested blackbird's shriek | N |
Startled the light leaved wood on high | A |
Wander'd the gadding butterfly | A |
Unscared by my flung cap the bee | L |
Rifling the hollyhock in glee | L |
Was no more trapp'd with his own flower | K |
And for his honey slain Her power | K |
From great things even to the grass | O |
Through which the unfenced footways pass | O |
Was law and that which keeps the law | P |
Cherubic gaiety and awe | Q |
Day was her doing and the lark | R |
Had reason for his song the dark | R |
In anagram innumerous spelt | J |
Her name with stars that throbb'd and felt | J |
'Twas the sad summit of delight | J |
To wake and weep for her at night | J |
She turn'd to triumph or to shame | S |
The strife of every childish game | S |
The heart would come into my throat | J |
At rosebuds howsoe'er remote | J |
In opposition or consent | J |
Each thing or person or event | J |
Or seeming neutral howsoe'er | K |
All in the live electric air | K |
Awoke took aspect and confess'd | J |
In her a centre of unrest | J |
Yea stocks and stones within me bred | J |
Anxieties of joy and dread | J |
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O bright apocalyptic sky | A |
O'erarching childhood Far and nigh | A |
Mystery and obscuration none | T |
Yet nowhere any moon or sun | T |
What reason for these sighs What hope | U |
Daunting with its audacious scope | U |
The disconcerted heart affects | V |
These ceremonies and respects | V |
Why stratagems in everything | I |
Why why not kiss her in the ring | I |
'Tis nothing strange that warriors bold | J |
Whose fierce forecasting eyes behold | J |
The city they desire to sack | W |
Humbly begin their proud attack | W |
By delving ditches two miles off | X |
Aware how the fair place would scoff | X |
At hasty wooing but O child | J |
Why thus approach thy playmate mild | J |
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One morning when it flush'd my thought | J |
That what in me such wonder wrought | J |
Was call'd in men and women love | Y |
And sick with vanity thereof | Y |
I saying loud I love her told | J |
My secret to myself behold | J |
A crisis in my mystery | K |
For suddenly I seem'd to be | K |
Whirl'd round and bound with showers of threads | Z |
As when the furious spider sheds | Z |
Captivity upon the fly | A |
To still his buzzing till he die | A |
Only with me the bonds that flew | J |
Enfolding thrill'd me through and through | J |
With bliss beyond aught heaven can have | A2 |
And pride to dream myself her slave | B2 |
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A long green slip of wilder'd land | J |
With Knatchley Wood on either hand | J |
Sunder'd our home from hers This day | J |
Glad was I as I went her way | J |
I stretch'd my arms to the sky and sprang | C2 |
O'er the elastic sod and sang | C2 |
I love her love her to an air | K |
Which with the words came then and there | K |
And even now when I would know | D2 |
All was not always dull and low | D2 |
I mind me awhile of the sweet strain | E2 |
Love taught me in that lonely lane | E2 |
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Such glories fade with no more mark | R |
Than when the sunset dies to dark | R |
They pass the rapture and the grace | M |
Ineffable their only trace | M |
A heart which having felt no less | F2 |
Than pure and perfect happiness | G2 |
Is duly dainty of delight | J |
A patient poignant appetite | J |
For pleasures that exceed so much | H2 |
The poor things which the world calls such | H2 |
That when these lure it then you may | J |
The lion with a wisp of hay | J |
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That Charlotte whom we scarcely knew | J |
From Anne but by her ribbons blue | J |
Was loved Anne less than look'd at shows | I2 |
That liking still by favour goes | I2 |
This Love is a Divinity | K |
And holds his high election free | K |
Of human merit or let's say | J |
A child by ladies call'd to play | J |
But careless of their becks and wiles | J2 |
Till seeing one who sits and smiles | J2 |
Like any else yet only charms | C |
He cries to come into her arms | C |
Then for my Cousins fear me not | J |
None ever loved because he ought | J |
Fatal were else this graceful house | K2 |
So full of light from ladies' brows | L2 |
There's Mary Heaven in her appears | M2 |
Like sunshine through the shower's bright tears | N2 |
Mildred's of Earth yet happier far | K |
Than most men's thoughts of Heaven are | K |
But for Honoria Heaven and Earth | O2 |
Seal'd amity in her sweet birth | O2 |
The noble Girl With whom she talks | P2 |
She knights first with her smile she walks | P2 |
Stands dances to such sweet effect | J |
Alone she seems to move erect | J |
The brightest and the chastest brow | K |
Rules o'er a cheek which seems to show | D2 |
That love as a mere vague suspense | Q2 |
Of apprehensive innocence | R2 |
Perturbs her heart love without aim | S |
Or object like the sunlit flame | S |
That in the Vestals' Temple glow'd | J |
Without the image of a god | J |
And this simplicity most pure | K |
She sets off with no less allure | K |
Of culture subtly skill'd to raise | F |
The power the pride and mutual praise | F |
Of human personality | K |
Above the common sort so high | A |
It makes such homely souls as mine | S2 |
Marvel how brightly life may shine | S2 |
How you would love her Even in dress | F2 |
She makes the common mode express | F2 |
New knowledge of what's fit so well | T2 |
'Tis virtue gaily visible | U2 |
Nay but her silken sash to me | K |
Were more than all morality | K |
Had not the old sweet feverous ill | V2 |
Left me the master of my will | V2 |
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So Mother feel at rest and please | D |
To send my books on board With these | D |
When I go hence all idle hours | W2 |
Shall help my pleasures and my powers | W2 |
I've time you know to fill my post | J |
And yet make up for schooling lost | J |
Through young sea service They all speak | N |
German with ease and this with Greek | N |
Which Dr Churchill thought I knew | J |
And history which I fail'd in too | J |
Will stop a gap I somewhat dread | J |
After the happy life I've led | J |
With these my friends and sweet 'twill be | K |
To abridge the space from them to me | K |
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II | A |
From Mrs Graham | B |
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My Child Honoria Churchill sways | F |
A double power through Charlotte Hayes | F |
In minds to first love's memory pledged | J |
The second Cupid's born full fledged | J |
I saw and trembled for the day | J |
When you should see her beauty gay | J |
And pure as apple blooms that show | D2 |
Outside a blush and inside snow | D2 |
Her high and touching elegance | R2 |
Of order'd life as free as chance | X2 |
Ah haste from her bewitching side | J |
No friend for you far less a bride | J |
But warning from a hope so wild | J |
I wrong you Yet this know my Child | J |
He that but once too nearly hears | Y2 |
The music of forefended spheres | M2 |
Is thenceforth lonely and for all | Z2 |
His days like one who treads the Wall | Z2 |
Of China and on this hand sees | D |
Cities and their civilities | D |
And on the other lions Well | T2 |
Your rash reply I thus foretell | T2 |
Good is the knowledge of what's fair | K |
Though bought with temporal despair | K |
Yes good for one but not for two | J |
Will it content a wife that you | J |
Should pine for love in love's embrace | D |
Through having known a happier grace | D |
And break with inward sighs your rest | J |
Because though good she's not the best | J |
You would you think be just and kind | J |
And keep your counsel You will find | J |
You cannot such a secret keep | A3 |
'Twill out like murder in your sleep | A3 |
A touch will tell it though for pride | J |
She may her bitter knowledge hide | J |
And while she accepts love's make believe | B3 |
You'll twice despise what you'd deceive | B3 |
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I | A |
Coventry Patmore
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