Marriage Thoughts: By Morsellin Khan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGDG HIII JKLMM EDNDN HOOO PJQRQ EQSTU EEDVD EWCW| Bridegroom | A |
| I give you my house and my lands all golden with harvest | B |
| My sword my shield and my jewels the spoils of my strife | C |
| My strength and my dreams and aught I have gathered of glory | D |
| And to night to night I shall give you my very life | C |
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| Bride | E |
| I may not raise my eyes O my Lord towards you | F |
| And I may not speak what matter my voice would fail | G |
| But through my dowacast lashes feeling your beauty | D |
| I shiver and burn with pleasure beneath my veil | G |
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| Younger Sisters | H |
| We throw sweet perfume upon her head | I |
| And delicate flowers round her bed | I |
| Ah would that it were our turn to wed | I |
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| Mother | J |
| I see my daughter vaguely through my tears | K |
| Ah lost caresses of my early years | L |
| I see the bridegroom King of men in truth | M |
| Ah my first lover and my vanished youth | M |
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| Bride | E |
| Almost I dread this night My senses fail me | D |
| How shall I dare to clasp a thing so dear | N |
| Many have feared your name but I your beauty | D |
| Lord of my life be gentle to my fear | N |
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| Younger Sisters | H |
| In the softest silk is our sister dressed | O |
| With silver rubies upon her breast | O |
| Where a dearer treasure to night will rest | O |
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| Dancing Girls | P |
| See his hair is like silk and his teeth are whiter | J |
| Than whitest of jasmin flowers Pity they marry him thus | Q |
| I would change my jewels against his caresses | R |
| Verily sisters this marriage is greatly a loss to us | Q |
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| Bride | E |
| Would that the music ceased and the night drew round us | Q |
| With solitude shadow and sound of closing doors | S |
| So that our lips might meet and our beings mingle | T |
| While mine drank deep of the essence beloved of yours | U |
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| Passing mendicant | E |
| Out of the joy of your marriage feast | E |
| Oh brothers be good to me | D |
| The way is long and the Shrine is far | V |
| Where my weary feet would be | D |
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| And feasting is always somewhat sad | E |
| To those outside the door | W |
| Still Love is only a dream and Life | C |
| Itself is hardly more | W |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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