Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFBAGGHHFFII JJKKFFLLJJMMNNJJEEOO FFJJJJLLJJPPQQIRJJST JJUVJJSTNN| Adieu dear object of my Love's excess | A |
| And with thee all my hopes of happiness | B |
| With the same fervent and unchanged heart | C |
| Which did it's whole self once to thee impart | C |
| And which though fortune has so sorely bruis'd | D |
| Would suffer more to be from this excus'd | D |
| I to resign thy dear Converse submit | E |
| Since I can neither keep nor merit it | E |
| Thou hast too long to me confined been | F |
| Who ruine am without passion within | F |
| My mind is sunk below thy tenderness | B |
| And my condition does deserve it less | A |
| I'm so entangl'd and so lost a thing | G |
| By all the shocks my daily sorrow bring | G |
| That would'st thou for thy old Orinda call | H |
| Thou hardly could'st unravel her at all | H |
| And should I thy clear fortunes interline | F |
| With the incessant miseries of mine | F |
| No no I never lov'd at such a rate | I |
| To tye thee to the rigours of my fate | I |
| As from my obligations thou art free | J |
| Sure thou shalt be so from my Injury | J |
| Though every other worthiness I miss | K |
| Yet I'le at least be generous in this | K |
| I'd rather perish without sigh or groan | F |
| Then thou shoul'dst be condemn'd to give me one | F |
| Nay in my soul I rather could allow | L |
| Friendship should be a sufferer then thou | L |
| Go then since my sad heart has set thee free | J |
| Let all the loads and chains remain on me | J |
| Though I be left the prey of sea and wind | M |
| Thou being happy wilt in that be kind | M |
| Nor shall I my undoing much deplore | N |
| Since thou art safe whom I must value more | N |
| Oh mayst thou ever be so and as free | J |
| From all ills else as from my company | J |
| And may the torments thou hast had from it | E |
| Be all that heaven will to thy life permit | E |
| And that they may thy vertue service do | O |
| Mayest thou be able to forgive them too | O |
| But though I must this sharp submission learn | F |
| I cannot yet unwish thy dear concern | F |
| Not one new comfort I expect to see | J |
| I quit my Joy hope life and all but thee | J |
| Nor seek I thence ought that may discompose | J |
| That mind where so serene a goodness grows | J |
| I ask no inconvenient kindness now | L |
| To move thy passion or to cloud thy brow | L |
| And thou wilt satisfie my boldest plea | J |
| By some few soft remembrances of me | J |
| Which may present thee with this candid thought | P |
| I meant not all the troubles that I brought | P |
| Own not what Passion rules and Fate does crush | Q |
| But wish thou couldst have don't without a blush | Q |
| And that I had been ere it was too late | I |
| Either more worthy or more fortunate | R |
| Ah who can love the thing they cannot prize | J |
| But thou mayst pity though thou dost despise | J |
| Yet I should think that pity bought too dear | S |
| If it should cost those precious Eyes a tear | T |
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| Oh may no minutes trouble thee possess | J |
| But to endear the next hours happiness | J |
| And maist thou when thou art from me remov'd | U |
| Be better pleas'd but never worse belov'd | V |
| Oh pardon me for pow'ring out my woes | J |
| In Rhime now that I dare not do't in Prose | J |
| For I must lose whatever is call'd dear | S |
| And thy assistance all that loss to bear | T |
| And have more cause than ere I had before | N |
| To fear that I shall never see thee more | N |
Katherine Philips
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