Suleika Name. - Book Of Suleika. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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That I saw the moon in my sleep | B |
But as soon as I waken'd behold | A |
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Unawares rose the sun from the deep | B |
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THAT Suleika's love was so strong | C |
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For Joseph need cause no surprise | D |
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He was young youth pleaseth the eyes | D |
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He was fair they say beyond measure | E |
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Fair was she and so great was their pleasure | E |
But that thou who awaitedst me long | C |
Youthful glances of fire dost throw me | F |
Soon wilt bless me thy love now dost show me | F |
This shall my joyous numbers proclaim | G |
Thee I for ever Suleika shall name | G |
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Suleika Name Book Of Suleika HATEM | H |
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NOT occasion makes the thief | I |
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She's the greatest of the whole | J |
For Love's relics to my grief | I |
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From my aching heart she stole | J |
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She hath given it to thee | F |
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All the joy my life had known | K |
So that in my poverty | F |
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Life I seek from thee alone | K |
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Yet compassion greets me straight | L |
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In the lustre of thine eye | M |
And I bless my newborn fate | L |
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As within thine arms I lie | M |
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Suleika Name Book Of Suleika SULEIKA | C |
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THE sun appears A glorious sight | N |
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The crescent moon clings round him now | O |
What could this wondrous pair unite | N |
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How to explain this riddle How | O |
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HATEM | H |
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May this our joy's foreboder prove | P |
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In it I view myself and thee | F |
Thou calmest me thy sun my love | Q |
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Come my sweet moon cling thou round me | F |
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LOVE for love and moments sweet | R |
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Lips returning kiss for kiss | S |
Word for word and eyes that meet | R |
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Breath for breath and bliss for bliss | S |
Thus at eve and thus the morrow | T |
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Yet thou feeblest at my lay | U |
Ever some half hidden sorrow | T |
Could I Joseph's graces borrow | T |
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All thy beauty I'd repay | U |
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HATEM | H |
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O SAY 'neath what celestial sign | V |
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The day doth lie | M |
When ne'er again this heart of mine | V |
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Away will fly | M |
And e'en though fled what thought divine | V |
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Would near me lie | M |
On the soft couch on whose sweet shrine | V |
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My heart near hers will lie | M |
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HATEM | H |
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HOLD me locks securely caught | W |
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In the circle of her face | X |
Dear brown serpents I have nought | W |
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To repay this act of grace | X |
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Save a heart whose love ne'er dies | D |
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Throbbing with aye youthful glow | T |
For a raging ETA lies | D |
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'Neath its veil of mist and snow | T |
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Yonder mountain's stately brow | O |
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Thou like morning beams dost shame | G |
Once again feels Hatem now | O |
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Spring's soft breath and summer's flame | G |
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One more bumper Fill the glass | Y |
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This last cup I pledge to thee | F |
By mine ashes if she pass | Y |
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He consumed she'll say for me | F |
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THE LOVING ONE SPEAKS | Z |
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AND wherefore sends not | W |
The horseman captain | A2 |
His heralds hither | E |
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Each day unfailing | C |
Yet hath he horses | B2 |
He writes well | C2 |
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He waiteth Tali | C2 |
And Neski knows he | F |
To write with beauty | F |
On silken tablets | D2 |
I'd deem him present | W |
Had I his words | E2 |
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The sick One will not | W |
Will not recover | E |
From her sweet sorrow | T |
She when she heareth | F |
That her true lover | E |
Grows well falls sick | C |
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THE LOVING ONE AGAIN | F2 |
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WRITES he in Neski | C |
Faithfully speaks he | F |
Writes he in Tali | C2 |
Joy to give seeks he | F |
Writes he in either | E |
Good for he loves | G2 |
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THESE tufted branches fair | H2 |
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Observe my loved one well | C2 |
And see the fruits they bear | H2 |
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In green and prickly shell | C2 |
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They've hung roll'd up till now | O |
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Unconsciously and still | C2 |
A loosely waving bough | O |
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Doth rock them at its will | C2 |
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Yet ripening from within | I2 |
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The kernel brown swells fast | W |
It seeks the air to win | I2 |
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It seeks the sun at last | W |
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With joy it bursts its thrall | C2 |
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The shell must needs give way | U |
'Tis thus my numbers fall | C2 |
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Before thy feet each day | U |
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SULEIKA | C |
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WHAT is by this stir reveal'd | W |
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Doth the East glad tidings bring | C |
For my heart's deep wounds are heal'd | W |
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By his mild and cooling wing | C |
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He the dust with sports doth meet | W |
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And in gentle cloudlets chase | X |
To the vineleaf's safe retreat | W |
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Drives the insects' happy race | X |
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Cools these burning cheeks of mine | V |
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Checks the sun's fierce glow Adam | J2 |
Kisses as he flies the vine | V |
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Flaunting over hill and plain | K2 |
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And his whispers soft convey | U |
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Thousand greetings from my friend | W |
Ere these hills own night's dark sway | U |
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Kisses greet me without end | W |
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Thus canst thou still onward go | C |
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Serving friend and mourner too | W |
There where lofty ramparts glow | C |
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Soon the loved one shall I view | W |
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Ah what makes the heart's truth known | K |
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Love's sweet breath a newborn life | L2 |
Learn I from his mouth alone | K |
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In his breath alone is rife | L2 |
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THE SUBLIME TYPE | M2 |
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THE sun whom Grecians Helms call | C2 |
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His heavenly path with pride doth tread | W |
And to subdue the world's wide all | C2 |
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Looks round beneath him high o'er head | W |
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He sees the fairest goddess pine | V |
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Heaven's child the daughter of the clouds | N2 |
For her alone he seems to shine | V |
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In trembling grief his form he shrouds | N2 |
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Careless for all the realms of bliss | S |
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Her streaming tears more swiftly flow | C |
For every pearl he gives a kiss | S |
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And changeth into joy her woe | C |
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She gazeth upward fixedly | C |
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And deeply feels his glance of might | W |
While stamped with his own effigy | F |
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Each pearl would range itself aright | W |
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Thus wreath'd with bows with hues thus grac'd | W |
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With gladness beams her face so fair | H2 |
While he to meet her maketh haste | W |
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And yet alas can reach her ne'er | H2 |
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So by the harsh decree of Fate | W |
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Thou modest from me dearest one | A2 |
And were I Helms e'en the Great | W |
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What would avail his chariot throne | K |
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SULEIKA | C |
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ZEPHYR for thy humid wing | C |
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Oh how much I envy thee | F |
Thou to him canst tidings bring | C |
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How our parting saddens me | F |
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In my breast a yearning still | C |
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As thy pinions wave appears | O2 |
Flow'rs and eyes and wood and hill | C |
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At thy breath are steeped in tears | P2 |
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Yet thy mild wing gives relief | I |
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Soothes the aching eyelid's pain | K2 |
Ah I else had died for grief | I |
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Him ne'er hoped to see again | F2 |
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To my love then quick repair | H2 |
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Whisper softly to his heart | W |
Yet to give him pain beware | H2 |
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Nor my bosom's pangs impart | W |
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Tell him but in accents coy | C |
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That his love must be my life | L2 |
Both with feelings fraught with joy | C |
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In his presence will be rife | L2 |
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THE REUNION | A2 |
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CAN it be of stars the star | Q2 |
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Do I press thee to my heart | W |
In the night of distance far | Q2 |
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What deep gulf what bitter smart | W |
Yes 'tis thou indeed at last | W |
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Of my joys the partner dear | R2 |
Mindful though of sorrows past | W |
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I the present needs must fear | R2 |
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When the still unfashion'd earth | F |
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Lay on God's eternal breast | W |
He ordain'd its hour of birth | F |
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With creative joy possess'd | W |
Then a heavy sigh arose | S2 |
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When He spake the sentence Be | F |
And the All with mighty throes | S2 |
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Burst into reality | F |
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And when thus was born the light | W |
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Darkness near it fear'd to stay | W |
And the elements with might | W |
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Fled on every side away | W |
Each on some far distant trace | X |
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Each with visions wild employ | C |
Numb in boundless realm of space | X |
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Harmony and feeling void | W |
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Dumb was all all still and dead | W |
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For the first time God alone | K |
Then He form'd the morning red | W |
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Which soon made its kindness known | K |
It unravelled from the waste | W |
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Bright and glowing harmony | F |
And once more with love was grac'd | W |
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What contended formerly | F |
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And with earnest noble strife | L2 |
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Each its own Peculiar sought | W |
Back to full unbounded life | L2 |
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Sight and feeling soon were brought | W |
Wherefore if 'tis done explore | T2 |
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How why give the manner name | G |
Allah need create no more | T2 |
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We his world ourselves can frame | G |
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So with morning pinions bright | W |
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To thy mouth was I impell'd | W |
Stamped with thousand seals by night | W |
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Star clear is the bond fast held | W |
Paragons on earth are we | F |
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Both of grief and joy sublime | U2 |
And a second sentence Be | F |
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Parts us not a second time | U2 |
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SULEIKA | C |
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WITH what inward joy sweet lay | W |
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I thy meaning have descried | W |
Lovingly thou seem'st to say | W |
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That I'm ever by his side | W |
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That he ever thinks of me | F |
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That he to the absent gives | V2 |
All his love's sweet ecstasy | F |
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While for him alone she lives | V2 |
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Yes the mirror which reveals | W2 |
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Thee my loved one is my breast | W |
This the bosom where thy seals | W2 |
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Endless kisses have impress'd | W |
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Numbers sweet unsullied truth | F |
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Chain me down in sympathy | F |
Love's embodied radiant youth | F |
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In the garb of poesy | W2 |
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IN thousand forms mayst thou attempt surprise | W2 |
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Yet all beloved one straight know I thee | F |
Thou mayst with magic veils thy face disguise | W2 |
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And yet all present one straight know I thee | F |
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Upon the cypress' purest youthful bud | W |
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All beauteous growing one straight know I thee | F |
In the canal's unsullied living flood | W |
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All captivating one well know I thee | F |
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When spreads the water column rising proud | W |
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All sportive one how gladly know I thee | F |
When e'en in forming is transform'd the cloud | W |
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All figure changing one there know I thee | F |
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Veil in the meadow carpet's flowery charms | W2 |
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All checkered starry fair one know I thee | F |
And if a plant extend its thousand arms | W2 |
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O all embracing one there know I thee | F |
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When on the mount is kindled morn's sweet light | W |
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Straightway all gladdening one salute I thee | F |
The arch of heaven o'er head grows pure and bright | W |
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All heart expanding one then breathe I thee | F |
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That which my inward outward sense proclaims | W2 |
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Thou all instructing one I know through thee | F |
And if I utter Allah's hundred names | W2 |
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A name with each one echoes meant for thee | F |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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