Ad Manus Puellae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB ACACD AEAEE AAAAAI was always a lover of ladies' hands | A |
Or ever mine heart came here to tryst | B |
For the sake of your carved white hands' commands | A |
The tapering fingers the dainty wrist | B |
The hands of a girl were what I kissed | B |
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I remember an hand like a fleur de lys | A |
When it slid from its silken sheath her glove | C |
With its odours passing ambergris | A |
And that was the empty husk of a love | C |
Oh how shall I kiss your hands enough | D |
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They are pale with the pallor of ivories | A |
But they blush to the tips like a curled sea shell | E |
What treasure in kingly treasuries | A |
Of gold and spice for the thurible | E |
Is sweet as her hands to hoard and tell | E |
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I know not the way from your finger tips | A |
Nor how I shall gain the higher lands | A |
The citadel of your sacred lips | A |
I am captive still of my pleasant bands | A |
The hands of a girl and most your hands | A |
Ernest Dowson
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