Pr |aeceptor Amat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGFFFFHH IIJAKKLLMINNOOPPQQLR SSTTAAAAUUAAVVWWXYZZ FFFFA2 YYFFB2B2FFFFAAAAYYYY EEQQYYAA AC2C2| It is time it was time long ago I should sever | A |
| This chain why I wear it I know not forever | A |
| Yet I cling to the bond e'en while sick of the mask | B |
| I must wear as of one whom his commonplace task | B |
| And proof armor of dullness have steeled to her charms | C |
| Ah how lovely she looked as she flung from her arms | C |
| In heaps to this table now starred with the stains | D |
| Of her booty yet wet with those yesterday rains | D |
| These roses and lilies and what let me see | E |
| Then was off in a moment but turned with a glee | E |
| That lit her sweet face as with moonlight to say | F |
| As 't was almost too late for a lesson to day | F |
| She meant to usurp for this morning at least | G |
| My office of Tutor and instead of a feast | G |
| Of such mouthfuls as poluphloisboio thalasses' | F |
| With which I fed her I should study the grasses | F |
| Love grasses she called them the buds and the flowers | F |
| Of which I know nothing and if with MY powers | F |
| I did not learn all she could teach in that time | H |
| And thank her perhaps in a sweet English rhyme | H |
| If I did not do this and she flung back her hair | I |
| And shook her bright head with a menacing air | I |
| She'd be oh she'd be a real Saracen Omar | J |
| To a certain much valued edition of Homer | A |
| But these flowers I believe I could number as soon | K |
| The shadowy thoughts of a last summer's noon | K |
| Or recall with their phases each one after one | L |
| The clouds that came down to the death of the Sun | L |
| Cirrus Stratus or Nimbus some evening last year | M |
| As unravel the web of one genus Why there | I |
| As they lie by my desk in that glistering heap | N |
| All tangled together like dreams in the sleep | N |
| Of a bliss fevered heart I might turn them and turn | O |
| Till night in a puzzle of pleasure and learn | O |
| Not a fact not a secret I prize half so much | P |
| As how rough is this leaf when I think of her touch | P |
| There's one now blown yonder what can be its name | Q |
| A topaz wine colored the wine in a flame | Q |
| And another that's hued like the pulp of a melon | L |
| But sprinkled all o'er as with seed pearls of Ceylon | R |
| And a third its white petals just clouded with pink | S |
| And a fourth that blue star and then this too I think | S |
| If one brought me this moment an amethyst cup | T |
| From which through a liquor of amber looked up | T |
| With a glow as of eyes in their elfin like lustre | A |
| Stones culled from all lands in a sunshiny cluster | A |
| From the ruby that burns in the sands of Mysore | A |
| To the beryl of Daunia with gems from the core | A |
| Of the mountains of Persia I talk like a boy | U |
| In the flush of some new and yet half tasted joy | U |
| But I think if that cup and its jewels together | A |
| Were placed by the side of this child of the weather | A |
| This one which she touched with her mouth and let slip | V |
| From her fingers by chance as her exquisite lip | V |
| With a music befitting the language divine | W |
| Gave the roll of the Greek's multitudinous line | W |
| I should take not the gems but enough let me shut | X |
| In the blossom that woke it my folly and put | Y |
| Both away in my bosom there in a heart niche | Z |
| One shall outlive the other is 't hard to tell which | Z |
| In the name of all starry and beautiful things | F |
| What is it the cross in the centre these rings | F |
| And the petals that shoot in an intricate maze | F |
| From the disk which is lilac or purple like rays | F |
| In a blue Aureole | A2 |
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| And so now will she wot | Y |
| When I sit by her side with my brows in a knot | Y |
| And praise her so calmly or chide her perhaps | F |
| If her voice falter once in its musical lapse | F |
| As I've done I confess just to gaze at a flush | B2 |
| In the white of her throat or to watch the quick rush | B2 |
| Of the tear she sheds smiling as drooping her curls | F |
| O'er that book I keep shrined like a casket of pearls | F |
| She reads on in low tones of such tremulous sweetness | F |
| That in spite of some faults I am forced in discreetness | F |
| To silence lest mine growing hoarse should betray | A |
| What I must not reveal will she guess now I say | A |
| How for all his grave looks the stern passionless Tutor | A |
| With more than the love of her youthfulest suitor | A |
| Is hiding somewhere in the shroud of his vest | Y |
| By a heart that is beating wild wings in its nest | Y |
| This flower thrown aside in the sport of a minute | Y |
| And which he holds dear as though folded within it | Y |
| Lay the germ of the bliss that he dreams of Ah me | E |
| It is hard to love thus yet to seem and to be | E |
| A thing for indifference faint praise or cold blame | Q |
| When you long by the right of deep passion the claim | Q |
| On the loved of the loving at least to be heard | Y |
| To take the white hand and with glance touch and word | Y |
| Burn your way to the heart That her step on the stair | A |
| Be still thou fond flutterer | A |
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| How little I care | A |
| For your favorites see they are all of them look | C2 |
| On the spot where they fell and but here is your book | C2 |
Henry Timrod
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