The Garden Of Kama: Kama The Indian Eros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB BBEFFE GGHIIH GGJIIJ KKLKKL MNKFFKThe daylight is dying | A |
The Flying fox flying | A |
Amber and amethyst burn in the sky | B |
See the sun throws a late | C |
Lingering roseate | D |
Kiss to the landscape to bid it good bye | B |
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The time of our Trysting | B |
Oh come unresisting | B |
Lovely expectant on tentative feet | E |
Shadow shall cover us | F |
Roses bend over us | F |
Making a bride chamber sacred and sweet | E |
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We know not life's reason | G |
The length of its season | G |
Know not if they know the great Ones above | H |
We none of us sought it | I |
And few could support it | I |
Were it not gilt with the glamour of love | H |
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But much is forgiven | G |
To Gods who have given | G |
If but for an hour the Rapture of Youth | J |
You do not yet know it | I |
But Kama shall show it | I |
Changing your dreams to his Exquisite Truth | J |
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The Fireflies shall light you | K |
And naught shall afright you | K |
Nothing shall trouble the Flight of the Hours | L |
Come for I wait for you | K |
Night is too late for you | K |
Come while the twilight is closing the flowers | L |
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Every breeze still is | M |
And scented with lilies | N |
Cooled by the twilight refreshed by the dew | K |
The garden lies breathless | F |
Where Kama the Deathless | F |
In the hushed starlight is waiting for you | K |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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