Cease Smiling, Dear! A Little While Be Sad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLE BNBN OMPE BQBQ| Dum nos fata sinunt oculos satiemus Amore | A |
| Propertius | B |
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| Cease smiling Dear a little while be sad | C |
| Here in the silence under the wan moon | D |
| Sweet are thine eyes but how can I be glad | C |
| Knowing they change so soon | D |
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| For Love's sake Dear be silent Cover me | E |
| In the deep darkness of thy falling hair | F |
| Fear is upon me and the memory | E |
| Of what is all men's share | F |
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| O could this moment be perpetuate | G |
| Must we grow old and leaden eyed and gray | H |
| And taste no more the wild and passionate | I |
| Love sorrows of to day | H |
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| Grown old and faded Sweet and past desire | J |
| Let memory die lest there be too much ruth | K |
| Remembering the old extinguished fire | J |
| Of our divine lost youth | K |
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| O red pomegranate of thy perfect mouth | L |
| My lips' life fruitage might I taste and die | M |
| Here in thy garden where the scented south | L |
| Wind chastens agony | E |
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| Reap death from thy live lips in one long kiss | B |
| And look my last into thine eyes and rest | N |
| What sweets had life to me sweeter than this | B |
| Swift dying on thy breast | N |
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| Or if that may not be for Love's sake Dear | O |
| Keep silence still and dream that we shall lie | M |
| Red mouth to mouth entwined and always hear | P |
| The south wind's melody | E |
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| Here in thy garden through the sighing boughs | B |
| Beyond the reach of time and chance and change | Q |
| And bitter life and death and broken vows | B |
| That sadden and estrange | Q |
Ernest Dowson
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