Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDECEFGFGDHDHIJIJ KLKLMNMNOPOPJJO you love's mendicancy who never tried | A |
How little of your almsman me you know | B |
Your little languid hand in mine you slide | A |
Like to a child says 'Kiss me and let me go ' | C |
And night for this is fretted with my tears | D |
While I 'How soon this heavenly neck doth tire | E |
Bending to me from its transtellar spheres ' | C |
Ah heart all kneaded out of honey and fire | E |
Who bound thee to a body nothing worth | F |
And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul | G |
That the most strainedest charity of earth | F |
Distasteth soon to render back the whole | G |
Of thine inflam ed sweets and gentilesse | D |
Whereat like an unpastured Titan thou | H |
Gnaw'st on thyself for famine's bitterness | D |
And leap'st against thy chain Sweet Lady how | H |
Little a linking of the hand to you | I |
Though I should touch yours careless for a year | J |
Not one blue vein would lie divinelier blue | I |
Upon your fragile temple to unsphere | J |
The seraphim for kisses Not one curve | K |
Of your sad mouth would droop more sad and sweet | L |
But little food love's beggars needs must serve | K |
That eye your plenteous graces from the street | L |
A hand clasp I must feed on for a night | M |
A noon although the untasted feast you lay | N |
To mock me of your beauty That you might | M |
Be lover for one space and make essay | N |
What 'tis to pass unsuppered to your couch | O |
Keep fast from love all day and so be taught | P |
The famine which these craving lines avouch | O |
Ah miser of good things that cost thee naught | P |
How know'st thou poor men's hunger Misery | J |
When I go doleless and unfed by thee | J |
Francis Thompson
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