La Solitude De St. Amant /la Solitude A Alcidon / Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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O Solitude my sweetest choice | B |
Places devoted to the night | C |
Remote from tumult and from noise | D |
How you my restless thoughts delight | C |
O Heavens what content is mine | E |
To see those trees which have appear'd | F |
From the nativity of Time | G |
And which hall ages have rever'd | F |
To look to day as fresh and green | H |
As when their beauties first were seen | H |
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A cheerful wind does court them so | I |
And with such amorous breath enfold | J |
That we by nothing else can know | I |
But by their hieght that they are old | J |
Hither the demi gods did fly | K |
To seek the sanctuary when | L |
Displeased Jove once pierc'd the sky | K |
To pour a deluge upon men | L |
And on these boughs themselves did save | M |
When they could hardly see a wave | M |
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Sad Philomel upon this thorn | N |
So curiously by Flora dress'd | O |
In melting notes her case forlorn | N |
To entertain me hath confess'd | O |
O how agreeable a sight | C |
These hanging mountains do appear | P |
Which the unhappy would invite | C |
To finish all their sorrows here | Q |
When their hard fate makes them endure | R |
Such woes as only death can cure | R |
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What pretty desolations make | S |
These torrents vagabond and fierce | T |
Who in vast leaps their springs forsake | S |
This solitary Vale to pierce | T |
Then sliding just as serpents do | U |
Under the foot of every tree | V |
Themselves are changed to rivers too | U |
Wherein some stately Nayade | U |
As in her native bed is grown | W |
A queen upon a crystal throne | W |
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This fen beset with river plants | X |
O how it does my sense charm | Y |
Nor elders reeds nor willows want | U |
Which the sharp steel did never harm | Y |
Here Nymphs which come to take the air | Z |
May with such distaffs furnish'd be | V |
As flags and rushes can prepare | Z |
Where we the nimble frogs may see | V |
Who frighted to retreat do fly | K |
If an approaching man they spy | K |
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Here water flowl repose enjoy | A2 |
Without the interrupting care | Z |
Lest Fortune should their bliss destroy | A2 |
By the malicious fowler's snare | Z |
Some ravish'd with so bright a day | U |
Their feathers finely prune and deck | B2 |
Others their amorous heats allay | U |
Which yet the waters could not check | B2 |
All take their innocent content | U |
In this their lovely element | U |
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Summer's nor Winter's bold approach | C2 |
This stream did never entertain | D2 |
Nor ever felt a boat or coach | C2 |
Whilst either season did remain | D2 |
No thirsty traveller came near | P |
And rudely made his hand his cup | E2 |
Nor any hunted hind hath here | Q |
Her hopeless life resigned up | E2 |
Nor ever did the treacherous hook | F2 |
Intrude to empty any brook | F2 |
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What beauty is there in the sight | U |
Of these old ruin'd castle walls | G2 |
Of which the utmost rage and spight | U |
Of Time's worst insurrection falls | G2 |
The witches keep their Sabbath here | Q |
And wanton devils make retreat | U |
Who in malicious sport appear | P |
Our sense both to afflict and cheat | U |
And here within a thousand holes | H2 |
Are nest of adders and of owls | I2 |
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The raven with his dismal cries | J2 |
That mortal augury of Fate | U |
Those ghastly goblins ratifies | J2 |
Which in these gloomy places wait | U |
On a curs'd tree the wind does move | K2 |
A carcase which did once belong | L2 |
To one that hang'd himself for love | M2 |
Of a fair Nymph that did him wrong | L2 |
Who thought she saw his love and truth | N2 |
With one look would not save the youth | N2 |
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But Heaven which judges equally | V |
And its own laws will still maintain | D2 |
Rewarded soon her cruelty | V |
With a deserv'd and mighty pain | D2 |
About this squalid heap of bones | O2 |
Her wand'ring and condemned shade | U |
Laments in long and piercing groans | O2 |
The destiny her rigour made | U |
And the more to augment her right | U |
Her crime is ever in her sight | U |
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There upon antique marbles trac'd | U |
Devices of past times we see | V |
Here age ath almost quite defac'd | U |
What lovers carv'd on every tree | V |
The cellar here the highest room | P2 |
Receives when its old rafters fail | Q2 |
Soil'd with the venom and the foam | R2 |
Of the spider and the snail | Q2 |
And th'ivy in the chimney we | V |
Find shaded by a walnut tree | V |
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Below there does a cave extend | U |
Wherein there is so dark a grot | U |
That should the Sun himself descend | U |
I think he could not see a jot | U |
Here sleep within a heavy lid | U |
In quiet sadness locks up sense | S2 |
And every care he does forbid | U |
Whilst in arms of negligence | T2 |
Lazily on his back he's spread | U |
And sheaves of poppy are his bed | U |
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Within this cool and hollow cave | M |
Where Love itself might turn to ice | U2 |
Poor Echo ceases not to rave | M |
On her Narcissus wild and nice | U2 |
Hither I softly steal a thought | U |
And by the softer music made | U |
With a sweet lute in charms well taught | U |
Sometimes I flatter her sad shade | U |
Whilst of my chords I make such choice | B |
They serve as body to her voice | B |
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When from these ruins I retire | V2 |
This horrid rock I do invade | U |
Whose lofty brow seems to inquire | V2 |
Of what materials mists are made | U |
From thence descending leisurely | V |
Under the brow of this steep hill | W2 |
It with great pleasure I descry | V2 |
By waters undermin'd until | W2 |
They to Palaemon's seat did climb | G |
Compos'd of sponges and of slime | G |
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How highly is the fancy pleas'd | U |
To be upon the Ocean's shore | V2 |
When she begins to be appeas'd | U |
And her fierce billows cease to roar | V2 |
And when the hairy Tritons are | V2 |
Riding upon the shaken wave | M |
With what strange sounds they strike the air | V2 |
Of their trumpets hoarse and brave | M |
Whose shrill reports does every wind | U |
Unto his due submission bind | U |
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Sometimes the sea dispels the sand | U |
Trembling and murmuring in the bay | U |
And rolls itself upon the shells | X2 |
Which it both brings and takes away | U |
Sometimes exposed on the strand | U |
Th'effect of Neptune's rage and scorn | N |
Drown'd men dead monsters cast on land | U |
And ships that were in tempests torn | N |
With diamonds and ambergreece | X2 |
And many more such things as these | X2 |
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Sometimes so sweetly she does smile | Y2 |
A floating mirror she might be | V |
And you would fancy all that while | Y2 |
New Heavens in her face to see | V |
The Sun himself is drawn so well | Z2 |
When there he would his picture view | U |
That our eye can hardly tell | Z2 |
Which is the false Sun which the true | U |
And lest we give our sense the lie | K |
We think he's fallen from the sky | K |
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Bernieres for whose beloved sake | S |
My thoughts are at a noble strife | A3 |
This my fantastic landskip take | S |
Which I have copied from the life | A3 |
I only seek the deserts rough | B3 |
Where all alone I love to walk | C3 |
And with discourse refin'd enough | B3 |
My Genius and the Muses talk | C3 |
But the converse most truly mine | E |
Is the dear memory of thine | E |
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Thou mayst in this Poem find | U |
So full of liberty and heat | U |
What illustrious rays have shin'd | U |
To enlighten my conceit | U |
Sometimes pensive sometimes gay | U |
Just as that fury does control | D3 |
And as the object I survey | U |
The notions grow up in my soul | D3 |
And are as unconcern'd and free | V |
As the flame which transported me | V |
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O how I Solitude adore | V2 |
That element of noblest wit | U |
Where I have learnt Apollo's lore | V2 |
Without the pains to study it | U |
For thy sake I in love am grown | W |
With what thy fancy does pursue | U |
But when I think upon my own | W |
I hate it for that reason too | U |
Because it needs must hinder me | V |
From seeing and from serving thee | V |
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O que j'ayme la solitude | U |
Que ces lieux sacrez la nuit Esloignez du monde e du bruit | U |
Plaisent mon inquietude | U |
Mon Dieu que mes yeux sont contens | U |
De voir ces bois qui se trouverent | U |
A la nativit du temps | U |
Et que tous les si cles everent | U |
Estre encore aussi beaux et vers | U |
Qu'aux premiers jours de l'univers | U |
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Un gay zephire les caresse | U |
D'un mouvement doux et flatteur | V2 |
Rien que leur extresme hauteur | V2 |
Ne fait remarquer leur vieillesse | U |
Jadis Pan et ses demi dieux | U |
Y vinrent chercher du refuge | E3 |
Quand Jupiter ouvrit les cieux | U |
Pour nous enoyer le deluge | E3 |
Et se sauvans sur leurs rameaux | U |
A peine virent ils les eaux | U |
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Que sur cette espine fleurie | V2 |
Dont le printemps est amoureux | U |
Philomele au chant langoureux | U |
Entretient bein ma resverie | V2 |
Que je prens de plaisir voir | V2 |
Ces monts pendans en precipices | U |
Qui puor les coups du desespoir | V2 |
Sont aux malheureux si propices | U |
Quand la cruaut de leur sort | U |
Les froce a rechercher la mort | U |
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Que | U |
Katherine Philips
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