Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDECEFGFGDHDHIJIJ KLKLMNMNOPOPJJ

O you love's mendicancy who never triedA
How little of your almsman me you knowB
Your little languid hand in mine you slideA
Like to a child says 'Kiss me and let me go 'C
And night for this is fretted with my tearsD
While I 'How soon this heavenly neck doth tireE
Bending to me from its transtellar spheres 'C
Ah heart all kneaded out of honey and fireE
Who bound thee to a body nothing worthF
And shamed thee much with an unlovely soulG
That the most strainedest charity of earthF
Distasteth soon to render back the wholeG
Of thine inflam ed sweets and gentilesseD
Whereat like an unpastured Titan thouH
Gnaw'st on thyself for famine's bitternessD
And leap'st against thy chain Sweet Lady howH
Little a linking of the hand to youI
Though I should touch yours careless for a yearJ
Not one blue vein would lie divinelier blueI
Upon your fragile temple to unsphereJ
The seraphim for kisses Not one curveK
Of your sad mouth would droop more sad and sweetL
But little food love's beggars needs must serveK
That eye your plenteous graces from the streetL
A hand clasp I must feed on for a nightM
A noon although the untasted feast you layN
To mock me of your beauty That you mightM
Be lover for one space and make essayN
What 'tis to pass unsuppered to your couchO
Keep fast from love all day and so be taughtP
The famine which these craving lines avouchO
Ah miser of good things that cost thee naughtP
How know'st thou poor men's hunger MiseryJ
When I go doleless and unfed by theeJ

Francis Thompson



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