A Reading Of Life--with The Persuader Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Who murmurs hither hither who	A
Where nought is audible so fills the ear	B
Where nought is visible can make appear	C
A veil with eyes that waver through	A
Like twilight's pledge of blessed night to come	D
Or day most golden All unseen and dumb	D
She breathes she moves inviting flees	E
Is lost and leaves the thrilled desire	F
To clasp and strike a slackened lyre	G
Till over smiles of hyacinth seas	E
Flame in a crystal vessel sails	H
Beneath a dome of jewelled spray	I
For land that drops the rosy day	I
On nights of throbbing nightingales	H
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Landward did the wonder flit	J
Or heart's desire of her all earth in it	J
We saw the heavens fling down their rose	H
On rapturous waves we saw her glide	K
The pearly sea shell half enclose	H
The shoal of sea nymphs flush the tide	K
And we afire to kiss her feet no more	L
Behold than tracks along a startled shore	L
With brightened edges of dark leaves that feign	M
An ambush hoped as heartless night remain	M
	-
More closely warmly hither hither she	N
The very she called forth by ripened blood	O
For its next breath of being murmurs she	N
Allurement she fulfilment she	N
The stream within us urged to flood	O
Man's cry earth's answer heaven's consent O she	N
Maid woman and divinity	N
Our over earthly inner earthly mate	P
Unmated she our hunger and our fruit	Q
Untasted she our written fate	P
Unread Life's flowering Life's root	Q
Unread divined unseen beheld	Q
The evanescent ever present she	N
Great Nature's stern necessity	N
In radiance clothed to softness quelled	Q
With a sword's edge of sweetness keen to take	R
Our breath for bliss our hearts for fulness break	R
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The murmur hushes down the veil is rent	Q
Man's cry earth's answer heaven's consent	Q
Her form is given to pardoned sight	Q
And lets our mortal eyes receive	S
The sovereign loveliness of celestial white	Q
Adored by them who solitarily pace	H
In dusk of the underworld's perpetual eve	S
The paths among the meadow asphodel	T
Remembering Never there her face	H
Is planetary reddens to shore sea shell	T
Around such whiteness the enamoured air	U
Of noon that clothes her never there	U
Daughter of light the joyful light	Q
She stands unveiled to nuptial sight	Q
Sweet in her disregard of aid	Q
Divine to conquer or persuade	Q
A fountain jets from moss a flower	F
Bends gently where her sunset tresses shower	F
By guerdon of her brilliance may be seen	V
With eyelids unabashed the passion's Queen	V
	-
Shorn of attendant Graces she can use	H
Her natural snares to make her will supreme	W
A simple nymph it is inclined to muse	H
Before the leader foot shall dip in stream	W
One arm at curve along a rounded thigh	X
Her firm new breasts each pointing its own way	I
A knee half bent to shade its fellow shy	X
Where innocence not nature signals nay	I
The bud of fresh virginity awaits	H
The wooer and all roseate will she burst	Q
She touches on the hour of happy mates	H
Still is she unaware she wakens thirst	Q
	-
And while commanding blissful sight believe	S
It holds her as a body strained to breast	Q
Down on the underworld's perpetual eve	S
She plunges the possessor dispossessed	Q
And bids believe that image heaving warm	Y
Is lost to float like torch smoke after flame	Z
The phantom any breeze blows out of form	Y
A thirst's delusion a defeated aim	Z
	-
The rapture shed the torture weaves	H
The direst blow on human heart she deals	H
The pain to know the seen deceives	H
Nought true but what insufferably feels	H
And stabs of her delicious note	Q
That is as heavenly light to hearing heard	Q
Through shelter leaves the laughter from her throat	Q
We answer as the midnight's morning's bird	Q
	-
She laughs she wakens gleeful cries	H
In her delicious laughter part revealed	Q
Yet mother is she more of moans and sighs	H
For longings unappeased and wounds unhealed	Q
Yet would she bless it is her task to bless	H
Yon folded couples passing under shade	Q
Are her rich harvest bidden caress caress	H
Consume the fruit in bloom not disobeyed	Q
We dolorous complainers had a dream	W
Wrought on the vacant air from inner fire	F
We saw stand bare of her celestial beam	W
The glorious Goddess and we dared desire	F
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Thereat are shown reproachful eyes and lips	H
Of upward curl to meanings half obscure	A2
And glancing where a wood nymph lightly skips	H
She nods at once that creature wears her lure	A2
Blush of our being between birth and death	B2
Sob of our ripened blood for its next breath	B2
Her wily semblance nought of her denies	H
Seems it the Goddess runs the Goddess hies	H
The generous Goddess yields And she can arm	C2
Her dwarfed and twisted with her secret charm	C2
Benevolent as Earth to feed her own	D2
Fully shall they be fed if they beseech	E2
But scorn she has for them that walk alone	D2
Blanched men starved women whom no arts can pleach	E2
The men as chief of criminals she disdains	H
And holds the reason in perceptive thought	Q
More pitiable like rivers lacking rains	H
Kissing cold stones the women shrink for drought	Q
Those faceless discords out of nature strayed	Q
Rank of the putrefaction ere decayed	Q
In impious singles bear the thorny wreaths	H
Their lives are where harmonious Pleasure breathes	H
For couples crowned with flowers that burn in dew	Q
Comes there a tremor of night's forest horn	F2
Across her garden from the insaner crew	Q
She darkens to malignity of scorn	F2
A shiver courses through her garden grounds	H
Grunt of the tusky boar the baying hounds	H
The hunter's shouts are heard afar and bring	G2
Dead on her heart her crimsoned flower of Spring	G2
These the irreverent of Life's design	H2
Division between natural and divine	H2
Would cast these vaunting barrenness for best	Q
In veins of gathered strength Life's tide arrest	Q
And these because the roses flood their cheeks	H
Vow them in nature wise as when Love speaks	H
With them is war and well the Goddess knows	H
What undermines the race who mount the rose	H
How the ripe moment lodged in slumberous hours	H
Enkindled by persuasion overpowers	H
Why weak as are her frailer trailing weeds	H
The strong when Beauty gleams o'er Nature's needs	H
And timely guile unguarded finds them lie	X
They who her sway withstand a sea defy	X
At every point of juncture must be proof	I2
Nor look for mercy from the incessant surge	J2
Her forces mixed of craft and passion urge	J2
For the one whelming wave to spring aloof	I2
She tenderness is pitiless to them	K2
Resisting in her godhead nature's truth	L2
No flower their face shall be but writhen stem	K2
Their youth a frost their age the dirge for youth	L2
These miserably disinclined	Q
The lamentably unembraced	Q
Insult the Pleasures Earth designed	Q
To people and beflower the waste	Q
Wherefore the Pleasures pass them by	X
For death they live in life they die	X
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Her head the Goddess from them turns	H
As from grey mounds of ashes in bronze urns	H
She views her quivering couples unconsoled	X
And of her beauty mirror they become	D
Like orchard blossoms apple pear and plum	D
Free of the cloud beneath the flood of gold	X
Crowned with wreaths that burn in dew	X
Her couples whirl sun satiated	X
Athirst for shade they sigh they wed	X
They play the music made of two	X
Oldest of earth earth's youngest till earth's end	X
Cunninger than the numbered strings	H
For melodies for harmonies	H
For mastered discords and the things	H
Not vocable whose mysteries	H
Are inmost Love's Life's reach of Life extend	X
	-
Is it an anguish overflowing shame	Z
And the tongue's pudency confides to her	F
With eyes of embers breath of incense myrrh	F
The woman's marrow in some dear youth's name	Z
Then is the Goddess tenderness	H
Maternal and she has a sister's tones	H
Benign to soothe intemperate distress	H
Divide despair from hope and sighs from moans	H
Her gentleness imparts exhaling ease	H
To those of her milk bearer votaries	H
As warm of bosom earth as she of the source	H
Direct erratic but in heart's excess	H
Being mortal and ill matched for Love's great force	H
Like green leaves caught with flames by his impress	H
And pray the	M2

George Meredith

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