To His Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CCC DDD EEE BBB CCC DDD DDD CCC BBB DDD CCCAfter Quarles | A |
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Why dost thou shade thy lovely face O why | B |
Does that eclipsing hand of thine deny | B |
The sunshine of the Sun's enlivening eye | B |
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Without thy light what light remains in me | C |
Thou art my life my way my light 's in thee | C |
I live I move and by thy beams I see | C |
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Thou art my life if thou but turn away | D |
My life 's a thousand deaths Thou art my way | D |
Without thee Love I travel not but stray | D |
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My light thou art without thy glorious sight | E |
My eyes are darken'd with eternal night | E |
My Love thou art my way my life my light | E |
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Thou art my way I wander if thou fly | B |
Thou art my light if hid how blind am I | B |
Thou art my life if thou withdraw'st I die | B |
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My eyes are dark and blind I cannot see | C |
To whom or whither should my darkness flee | C |
But to that light and who 's that light but thee | C |
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If I have lost my path dear lover say | D |
Shall I still wander in a doubtful way | D |
Love shall a lamb of Israel's sheepfold stray | D |
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My path is lost my wandering steps do stray | D |
I cannot go nor can I safely stay | D |
Whom should I seek but thee my path my way | D |
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And yet thou turn'st thy face away and fly'st me | C |
And yet I sue for grace and thou deny'st me | C |
Speak art thou angry Love or only try'st me | C |
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Thou art the pilgrim's path the blind man's eye | B |
The dead man's life On thee my hopes rely | B |
If I but them remove I surely die | B |
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Dissolve thy sunbeams close thy wings and stay | D |
See see how I am blind and dead and stray | D |
O thou that art my life my light my way | D |
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Then work thy will If passion bid me flee | C |
My reason shall obey my wings shall be | C |
Stretch'd out no farther than from me to thee | C |
John Wilmot
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