L'amour Du Mensonge. Translations. After Charles Baudelaire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GAGA HIHI JKLK IMIM| When I behold thee O my indolent love | A |
| To the sound of ringing brazen melodies | B |
| Through garish halls harmoniously move | C |
| Scattering a scornful light from languid eyes | D |
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| When I see smitten by the blazing lights | E |
| Thy pale front beauteous in its bloodless glow | F |
| As the faint fires that deck the Northern nights | E |
| And eyes that draw me wheresoe'er I go | F |
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| I say She is fair too coldly strange for speech | G |
| A crown of memories her calm brow above | A |
| Shines and her heart is like a bruised red peach | G |
| Ripe as her body for intelligent love | A |
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| Art thou late fruit of spicy savour and scent | H |
| A funeral vase awaiting tearful showers | I |
| An Eastern odour waste and oasis blent | H |
| A silken cushion or a bank of flowers | I |
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| I know there are eyes of melancholy sheen | J |
| To which no passionate secrets e'er were given | K |
| Shrines where no god or saint has ever been | L |
| As deep and empty as the vault of Heaven | K |
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| But what care I if this be all pretence | I |
| 'Twill serve a heart that seeks for truth no more | M |
| All one thy folly or indifference | I |
| Hail lovely mask thy beauty I adore | M |
John Milton Hay
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