La Solitude De St. Amant /la Solitude A Alcidon / Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O Solitude my sweetest choiceB
Places devoted to the nightC
Remote from tumult and from noiseD
How you my restless thoughts delightC
O Heavens what content is mineE
To see those trees which have appear'dF
From the nativity of TimeG
And which hall ages have rever'dF
To look to day as fresh and greenH
As when their beauties first were seenH
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A cheerful wind does court them soI
And with such amorous breath enfoldJ
That we by nothing else can knowI
But by their hieght that they are oldJ
Hither the demi gods did flyK
To seek the sanctuary whenL
Displeased Jove once pierc'd the skyK
To pour a deluge upon menL
And on these boughs themselves did saveM
When they could hardly see a waveM
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Sad Philomel upon this thornN
So curiously by Flora dress'dO
In melting notes her case forlornN
To entertain me hath confess'dO
O how agreeable a sightC
These hanging mountains do appearP
Which the unhappy would inviteC
To finish all their sorrows hereQ
When their hard fate makes them endureR
Such woes as only death can cureR
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What pretty desolations makeS
These torrents vagabond and fierceT
Who in vast leaps their springs forsakeS
This solitary Vale to pierceT
Then sliding just as serpents doU
Under the foot of every treeV
Themselves are changed to rivers tooU
Wherein some stately NayadeU
As in her native bed is grownW
A queen upon a crystal throneW
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This fen beset with river plantsX
O how it does my sense charmY
Nor elders reeds nor willows wantU
Which the sharp steel did never harmY
Here Nymphs which come to take the airZ
May with such distaffs furnish'd beV
As flags and rushes can prepareZ
Where we the nimble frogs may seeV
Who frighted to retreat do flyK
If an approaching man they spyK
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Here water flowl repose enjoyA2
Without the interrupting careZ
Lest Fortune should their bliss destroyA2
By the malicious fowler's snareZ
Some ravish'd with so bright a dayU
Their feathers finely prune and deckB2
Others their amorous heats allayU
Which yet the waters could not checkB2
All take their innocent contentU
In this their lovely elementU
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Summer's nor Winter's bold approachC2
This stream did never entertainD2
Nor ever felt a boat or coachC2
Whilst either season did remainD2
No thirsty traveller came nearP
And rudely made his hand his cupE2
Nor any hunted hind hath hereQ
Her hopeless life resigned upE2
Nor ever did the treacherous hookF2
Intrude to empty any brookF2
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What beauty is there in the sightU
Of these old ruin'd castle wallsG2
Of which the utmost rage and spightU
Of Time's worst insurrection fallsG2
The witches keep their Sabbath hereQ
And wanton devils make retreatU
Who in malicious sport appearP
Our sense both to afflict and cheatU
And here within a thousand holesH2
Are nest of adders and of owlsI2
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The raven with his dismal criesJ2
That mortal augury of FateU
Those ghastly goblins ratifiesJ2
Which in these gloomy places waitU
On a curs'd tree the wind does moveK2
A carcase which did once belongL2
To one that hang'd himself for loveM2
Of a fair Nymph that did him wrongL2
Who thought she saw his love and truthN2
With one look would not save the youthN2
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But Heaven which judges equallyV
And its own laws will still maintainD2
Rewarded soon her crueltyV
With a deserv'd and mighty painD2
About this squalid heap of bonesO2
Her wand'ring and condemned shadeU
Laments in long and piercing groansO2
The destiny her rigour madeU
And the more to augment her rightU
Her crime is ever in her sightU
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There upon antique marbles trac'dU
Devices of past times we seeV
Here age ath almost quite defac'dU
What lovers carv'd on every treeV
The cellar here the highest roomP2
Receives when its old rafters failQ2
Soil'd with the venom and the foamR2
Of the spider and the snailQ2
And th'ivy in the chimney weV
Find shaded by a walnut treeV
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Below there does a cave extendU
Wherein there is so dark a grotU
That should the Sun himself descendU
I think he could not see a jotU
Here sleep within a heavy lidU
In quiet sadness locks up senseS2
And every care he does forbidU
Whilst in arms of negligenceT2
Lazily on his back he's spreadU
And sheaves of poppy are his bedU
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Within this cool and hollow caveM
Where Love itself might turn to iceU2
Poor Echo ceases not to raveM
On her Narcissus wild and niceU2
Hither I softly steal a thoughtU
And by the softer music madeU
With a sweet lute in charms well taughtU
Sometimes I flatter her sad shadeU
Whilst of my chords I make such choiceB
They serve as body to her voiceB
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When from these ruins I retireV2
This horrid rock I do invadeU
Whose lofty brow seems to inquireV2
Of what materials mists are madeU
From thence descending leisurelyV
Under the brow of this steep hillW2
It with great pleasure I descryV2
By waters undermin'd untilW2
They to Palaemon's seat did climbG
Compos'd of sponges and of slimeG
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How highly is the fancy pleas'dU
To be upon the Ocean's shoreV2
When she begins to be appeas'dU
And her fierce billows cease to roarV2
And when the hairy Tritons areV2
Riding upon the shaken waveM
With what strange sounds they strike the airV2
Of their trumpets hoarse and braveM
Whose shrill reports does every windU
Unto his due submission bindU
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Sometimes the sea dispels the sandU
Trembling and murmuring in the bayU
And rolls itself upon the shellsX2
Which it both brings and takes awayU
Sometimes exposed on the strandU
Th'effect of Neptune's rage and scornN
Drown'd men dead monsters cast on landU
And ships that were in tempests tornN
With diamonds and ambergreeceX2
And many more such things as theseX2
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Sometimes so sweetly she does smileY2
A floating mirror she might beV
And you would fancy all that whileY2
New Heavens in her face to seeV
The Sun himself is drawn so wellZ2
When there he would his picture viewU
That our eye can hardly tellZ2
Which is the false Sun which the trueU
And lest we give our sense the lieK
We think he's fallen from the skyK
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Bernieres for whose beloved sakeS
My thoughts are at a noble strifeA3
This my fantastic landskip takeS
Which I have copied from the lifeA3
I only seek the deserts roughB3
Where all alone I love to walkC3
And with discourse refin'd enoughB3
My Genius and the Muses talkC3
But the converse most truly mineE
Is the dear memory of thineE
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Thou mayst in this Poem findU
So full of liberty and heatU
What illustrious rays have shin'dU
To enlighten my conceitU
Sometimes pensive sometimes gayU
Just as that fury does controlD3
And as the object I surveyU
The notions grow up in my soulD3
And are as unconcern'd and freeV
As the flame which transported meV
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O how I Solitude adoreV2
That element of noblest witU
Where I have learnt Apollo's loreV2
Without the pains to study itU
For thy sake I in love am grownW
With what thy fancy does pursueU
But when I think upon my ownW
I hate it for that reason tooU
Because it needs must hinder meV
From seeing and from serving theeV
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O que j'ayme la solitudeU
Que ces lieux sacrez la nuit Esloignez du monde e du bruitU
Plaisent mon inquietudeU
Mon Dieu que mes yeux sont contensU
De voir ces bois qui se trouverentU
A la nativit du tempsU
Et que tous les si cles everentU
Estre encore aussi beaux et versU
Qu'aux premiers jours de l'universU
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Un gay zephire les caresseU
D'un mouvement doux et flatteurV2
Rien que leur extresme hauteurV2
Ne fait remarquer leur vieillesseU
Jadis Pan et ses demi dieuxU
Y vinrent chercher du refugeE3
Quand Jupiter ouvrit les cieuxU
Pour nous enoyer le delugeE3
Et se sauvans sur leurs rameauxU
A peine virent ils les eauxU
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Que sur cette espine fleurieV2
Dont le printemps est amoureuxU
Philomele au chant langoureuxU
Entretient bein ma resverieV2
Que je prens de plaisir voirV2
Ces monts pendans en precipicesU
Qui puor les coups du desespoirV2
Sont aux malheureux si propicesU
Quand la cruaut de leur sortU
Les froce a rechercher la mortU
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QueU

Katherine Philips



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