Via Amoris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFFGGHHAIJK A LMNNNNLM A OOPQRR SSTTUU VVWWXX A YYEECCZZ A BBCCA2A2B2B2C2C2C2C2| I | A |
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| It is not Love this beautiful unrest | B |
| This tremor of longing that invades my breast | B |
| For Love is in his grave this many a year | C |
| He will not rise I do not wish him here | D |
| It is not memory for your face and eyes | E |
| Are not reflected where that dark pool lies | E |
| It is not hope for life makes no amends | F |
| And hope and I are long no longer friends | F |
| It is a ghost out of another Spring | G |
| It needs but little for its comforting | G |
| That I should hold your hand and see your face | H |
| And muse a little in this quiet place | H |
| Where through the silence I can hear you sigh | A |
| And feel you sadden O Virgin Mystery | I |
| And know my thought has in your thought begot | J |
| Sadness its child and that you know it not | K |
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| II | A |
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| If this were Love if all this bitter pain | L |
| Were but the birth pang of Love born again | M |
| If through the doubts and dreams resolved smiled | N |
| The prophetic promise of the holy child | N |
| What should I gain The Love whose dream lips smiled | N |
| Could never be my own and only child | N |
| But to Love's birth would come with the last pain | L |
| Renunciation also born again | M |
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| III | A |
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| If this were Love why should I turn away | O |
| Am I not too made of the common clay | O |
| Is life so fair am I so fortunate | P |
| I can refuse the capricious gift of Fate | Q |
| The sudden glory the unhoped for flowers | R |
| The transfiguration of my earthly hours | R |
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| Come Love the house is garnished and is swept | S |
| Washed clean with all the tears that I have wept | S |
| Washed from the stain of my unworthy fears | T |
| Hung with the splendid spoils of wasted years | T |
| Lighted with lamps of hope and curtained fast | U |
| Against the gathered darkness of the past | U |
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| I draw the bolts I throw the portals wide | V |
| The darkness rushes shivering to my side | V |
| Love is not here the darkness creeps about | W |
| My house wherein the lamps of hope die out | W |
| Ah Love it was not then your hand that came | X |
| Beating my door your voice that called my name | X |
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| IV | A |
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| It is not Love it is not Love I said | Y |
| And bowed in fearful hope my trembling head | Y |
| It is not Love for Love could never rise | E |
| Out of the rock hewn grave wherein he lies | E |
| But as I spake the heavenly form drew near | C |
| Where close I clasped a hope grown keen as fear | C |
| Upon my head His very hand He laid | Z |
| And whispered It is I be not afraid | Z |
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| V | A |
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| And this is Love no rose crowned laughing guest | B |
| By whom my passionate heart should be caressed | B |
| But one re risen from the grave austere | C |
| Cold as the grave and infinitely dear | C |
| To follow whom I lay the whole world down | A2 |
| Take up the cross bind on the thorny crown | A2 |
| And following whom my bleeding pilgrim feet | B2 |
| Find the rough pathway sure and very sweet | B2 |
| The august environment of mighty wings | C2 |
| Shuts out the snare of vain imaginings | C2 |
| For by my side crowned with Love's death white rose | C2 |
| The Angel of Renunciation goes | C2 |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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