Manus Animam Pinxit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCADEAEFGFHHGIHI HGGJJGGHHGDDJKKLMNNM M OPQGRSROGTUVVDDOWWOX XDDDDDAADDDDGGYY| Lady who hold'st on me dominion | A |
| Within your spirit's arms I stay me fast | B |
| Against the fell | C |
| Immitigate ravening of the gates of hell | C |
| And claim my right in you most hardly won | A |
| Of chaste fidelity upon the chaste | D |
| Hold me and hold by me lest both should fall | E |
| O in high escalade high companion | A |
| Even in the breach of Heaven's assaulted wall | E |
| Like to a wind sown sapling grow I from | F |
| The clift Sweet of your skyward jetting soul | G |
| Shook by all gusts that sweep it overcome | F |
| By all its clouds incumbent O be true | H |
| To your soul dearest as my life to you | H |
| For if that soil grow sterile then the whole | G |
| Of me must shrivel from the topmost shoot | I |
| Of climbing poesy and my life killed through | H |
| Dry down and perish to the foodless root | I |
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| Sweet Summer unto you this swallow drew | H |
| By secret instincts inappeasable | G |
| That did direct him well | G |
| Lured from his gelid North which wrought him wrong | J |
| Wintered of sunning song | J |
| By happy instincts inappeasable | G |
| Ah yes that led him well | G |
| Lured to the untried regions and the new | H |
| Climes of auspicious you | H |
| To twitter there and in his singing dwell | G |
| But ah if you my Summer should grow waste | D |
| With grieving skies o'ercast | D |
| For such migration my poor wing was strong | J |
| But once it has no power to fare again | K |
| Forth o'er the heads of men | K |
| Nor other Summers for its Sanctuary | L |
| But from your mind's chilled sky | M |
| It needs must drop and lie with stiffened wings | N |
| Among your soul's forlornest things | N |
| A speck upon your memory alack | M |
| A dead fly in a dusty window crack | M |
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| O therefore you who are | O |
| What words being to such mysteries | P |
| As raiment to the body is | Q |
| Should rather hide than tell | G |
| Chaste and intelligential love | R |
| Whose form is as a grove | S |
| Hushed with the cooing of an unseen dove | R |
| Whose spirit to my touch thrills purer far | O |
| Than is the tingling of a silver bell | G |
| Whose body other ladies well might bear | T |
| As soul yea which it profanation were | U |
| For all but you to take as fleshly woof | V |
| Being spirit truest proof | V |
| Whose spirit sure is lineal to that | D |
| Which sang Magnificat | D |
| Chastest since such you are | O |
| Take this curbed spirit of mine | W |
| Which your own eyes invest with light divine | W |
| For lofty love and high auxiliar | O |
| In daily exalt emprise | X |
| Which outsoars mortal eyes | X |
| This soul which on your soul is laid | D |
| As maid's breast against breast of maid | D |
| Beholding how your own I have engraved | D |
| On it and with what purging thoughts have laved | D |
| This love of mine from all mortality | D |
| Indeed the copy is a painful one | A |
| And with long labour done | A |
| O if you doubt the thing you are lady | D |
| Come then and look in me | D |
| Your beauty Dian dress and contemplate | D |
| Within a pool to Dian consecrate | D |
| Unveil this spirit lady when you will | G |
| For unto all but you 'tis veiled still | G |
| Unveil and fearless gaze there you alone | Y |
| And if you love the image 'tis your own | Y |
Francis Thompson
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