Hypsipyle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Queen of the shadows Maid and Wife	A
Twifold in essence as in life	A
The lamp of Death the star of Birth	B
Half cradled and half mourned by Earth	B
By Hell half won half lost aid me	C
To sing thy fond Hypsipyle	D
Thy bosom's mate who unafraid	E
Renounced for thee what part she had	F
In sun and wind upon the hill	D
In dawn about the mere in still	D
Woodlands in kiss of lapping wave	G
In laughter in love all this she gave	G
And shared thy dream life visited	H
The sunless country of the dead	I
There to abide with thee their Queen	J
In that gray region shadow seen	J
By them that cast no shadows yet	K
Themselves are shadows Nor forget	K
Kor her love made manifest	L
To thee familiar of her breast	L
And partner of her whispering mouth	M
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Thee too Our Lady of the South	M
Uranian Kypris I invoke	N
Regent of starry space with stroke	N
Of splendid wing in whose white wake	O
Stream those who filled with thee forsake	O
Their clinging shroudy clots and rise	P
Lover and loved to thy pure skies	P
To thy blue realm O lady touch	Q
My lips with rue for she loved much	Q
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What poet in what cloistered nook	R
Indenting in what roll of a book	R
His rhymes can voice the tides of love	S
Nay thrilling lark nay moaning dove	S
The nightingale's full charg d throat	T
That cheereth now and now doth gloat	T
And now recordeth bitter sweet	U
Longing too wise to image it	V
These be your minstrels lovers Choose	W
From their winged choir your urgent Muse	W
Let her your speechless joys relate	X
Which men with words sophisticate	X
Striving by reasons make appear	Y
To head what heart proclaims so clear	Y
To heart as if by wit to wis	Z
What mouth to mouth tells in a kiss	Z
Or in their syllogisms dry	A2
Freeze a swift glance's cogency	C
Nay but the heart's so music fraught	B2
Music is all in love words naught	B2
One heart's a rote with music stored	C2
Though mute but two hearts make a chord	C2
Of piercing music One alone	D2
Is nothing two make the full tone	D2
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I	A2
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On Enna's uplands on a lea	C
Between the mountains and the sea	C
Shadowed anon by wandering cloud	E2
Or flickering wings of birds a crowd	E2
And now all golden in the sun	F2
See Kor see her maidens run	F2
Hither and thither through those hours	G2
Of dawn among the wide eyed flowers	G2
While gentian crocus asphodel	C
With rosy star in each white bell	C
Anemone blood red with rings	H2
Of paler fire that plant that swings	H2
A crimson cluster in the wind	I2
They pluck or sit anon to bind	I2
Of these earth stars a coronet	K
For their smooth tress d Queen who yet	K
Strays with her darling interlaced	J2
Hypsipyle the grave the chaste	J2
Her whose gray shadow life with his	K2
Who singeth now for ever is	K2
She little slim thing Kor 's mate	X
Child faced gray eyed of sober gait	X
Of burning mind and passion pent	L2
To image making ever went	L2
Where wonned her Mistress for those two	M2
By their hearts' grace together grew	M2
The one to need the one to give	N2
As women must if they would live	O2
Who substance win by waste of self	P2
And only spend to hoard their pelf	P2
O heart take all of mine O heart	Q2
That which thou tak'st of thee is part	Q2
No robbery therefore mine is thine	R2
Take then so she and Proserpine	R2
Intercommunion'd each bright day	S2
And when night fell together lay	S2
Cradled in arms or cheek to cheek	T2
Whispered the darkness out Thou meek	T2
And gentle vision let me tell	C
Thy beauties o'er I love so well	C
Thy sweet low bosom's rise and fall	C
Pulsing thy heart's clear madrigal	C
Or how the blue beam from thine eyes	P
Imageth all love's urgencies	P
Thy lips' frail fragrance as of flowers	P
Remembered in penurious hours	P
Of winter exile of thy brow	U2
Not written as thy breast of snow	R2
With love's faint charact'ry for his wing	V2
Leaves not the heart long Last I sing	V2
Thy thin quick fingers in whose pleaching	V2
Lieth all healing all good teaching	V2
Wherewith touching my discontent	L2
I know how thou art eloquent	W2
Remember'd joy Hypsipyle	C
Now may that serve to comfort me	C
While I O Maiden dedicate	X
Seek voice for singing thy gray Fate	X
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Now as they went one heart in two	M2
Brusht to the knees by flowers by dew	M2
Anointed by the wind caressed	L
By the light kissed on eyes and breast	L
'Twas Kor talked Hypsipyle	C
Listened with eyes far set for she	C
Of speech was frugal voicing low	C
And rare her heart's deep underflow	C
Content to lie like fallow sweet	U
For rain or sun to cherish it	V
Or scattered seed substance to find	I2
In her deep funded quiet mind	I2
And thus the Goddess Blest art thou	U2
Hypsipyle who canst not know	C
Until the hour strikes what must come	X2
To pass But I foresee the doom	Y2
And stay to meet it Even here	Z2
The place and now the hour Then fear	Y
Took her who spake so fearless cold	A3
Threaded her thronging veins behold	A3
A hand on either shoulder stirs	P
That slim sweet body close to hers	P
And need fires need till lip with lip	B3
They seal and sign their fellowship	B3
While Kor godhead all forgot	C3
Clings whispering Child leave me not	C3
Whenas to darkness and the dead	I
I go And clear the answer sped	I
From warm mouth murmuring kiss and cheer	Y
Never I leave thee O my dear	Y
Thereafter stand they beatingly	C
Not speaking and the hour draws nigh	P2
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And all the land shows passing fair	D3
Fair the broad sea the living air	D3
The misty mountain sides the lake	V2
Flecked blue and purple To forsake	V2
These and those bright flower gatherers	P
Scattered about this land of theirs	P
That stoop or run that kneel to pick	V2
That cry each other to come quick	V2
And see new treasure unseen yet	K
Remembered joy ah how forget	K
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But mark how all must come to pass	P
As was foreknowledged In the grass	P
Whereas the Goddess and her mate	X
Stood one and other prompt for fate	X
Listless the first and heavy eyed	E3
Astrain the second she espied	E3
That strange white flower unseen before	F3
With chalice pale which thin stalk bore	F3
And swung as hanging by a hair	D3
So fine it seemed afloat in air	D3
Unlinkt and wafted for the feast	E3
Of some blest mystic without priest	E3
Or acolyte to tender it	E3
Whereto the maid did stoop and fit	E3
Her hand about its silken cup	G3
To close it that her mouth might sup	G3
The honey drop within The bloom	Y2
Saw Kor then and knew her doom	Y2
Foretold in it and stood in trance	P
Fix d and still No nigromance	P
Used she but read the fate it bore	F3
In seedless womb and petals frore	F3
Chill blew the wind waiting stood She	C
Waiting her mate Hypsipyle	C
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Then in clear sky the thunder tolled	E3
Sudden and all the mountains rolled	E3
The dreadful summons round and still	C
Lay all the lands only the rill	C
Made tinkling music Once more drave	P2
Peal upon peal and lo a grave	P2
Yawned in the Earth and gushing smoke	V2
Belched out as driven and hung and broke	V2
With sullen puff like tongues the flame	H3
Leapt following Thence A doneus came	H3
Swart bearded king with iron crown'd	E3
In iron mailed his chariot bound	E3
About with iron holding back	V2
Amain two steeds of glistering black	V2
And eyeballs white rimmed fearfully	C
And nostrils red and crests flying free	C
Who held them pawing at the verge	I3
Tossing their spume up as the surge	I3
Flung high against some seaward bluff	P2
Nothing he spake or smooth or gruff	P2
But drave his errand gazing down	R2
Upon the Maid whose blown back gown	R2
Revealed her maiden Still and proud	E3
Stood she among her nymphs unbowed	E3
Her comely head undimmed her eye	P2
Inseparate her lips and dry	P2
Facing his challenge of her state	E3
Neither denying nor desperate	E3
Pleading no mercy seeing none	R2
Her wild heart masked in face of stone	R2
But they her bevy clustered thick	V2
As huddled sheep set their eyes quick	V2
And held each other hand or waist	E3
Paling or flushing as fear raced	E3
Thronging their veins they knew not they	S2
The gathered fates that broke this day	S2
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And all the land seemed passing fair	F3
To one who knew and waited there	F3
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Goddess and Maid then said the King	V2
Long have I sought this day should bring	V2
An end of torment Know me thou	U2
God postulant with whom below	C
A world awaits her queen while here	F3
I seek and find one without peer	F3
Nor deem her heedless nor unschooled	S2
In what in Heaven is writ and ruled	S2
Decreed of old my bride right was	P
Decreed thy Mother's pain and loss	P
Decreed thy loathing and decreed	S2
That which thou shunnest to be thy need	S2
For thou shalt love me Lady yet	S2
Though little liking now and fret	S2
Of jealous care shall grave thy heart	S2
And draw thee back when time's to part	S2
If fond Demeter have her will	C
Against thine own	R2
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The Maid stood still	C
And guarded watched and her proud eyes'	P
Scrutiny bade his own advise	P
Whether indeed their solemn stare	F3
Saw Destiny and read it there	F3
Beyond her suitor or within	R2
Her own heart heard the message ring	V2
Awhile she gazed her stern aspect	S2
Young and yet fraught with Godhead checkt	S2
Both Him who claimed and her who'd cling	V2
And them who wondered O great King	V2
She said and mournful was her crying	V2
As when night winds set pine trees sighing	V2
King of the folk beyond the tide	S2
Of sleep behold thy chosen bride	S2
Not shunning thee nor seeking Take	V2
That which Gods neither mar nor make	V2
But only They the Three who spin	R2
The threads which hem and mesh us in	R2
Both Gods and men till she who peers	P
The longest cuts them with her shears	P
Take take A doneus and take her	F3
My fosterling	V2
Then He O star	F3
Of Earth O Beacon of my days	P
Light of my nights whose beamy rays	P
Shall pierce the foggy cerement	S2
Wherein my dead grope and lament	S2
Beyond all loss the loss of light	S2
Come and be pleasant in my sight	S2
This thy beloved Perchance she too	S2
Shall find a suitor come to woo	S2
For love men leave not with their bones	P
That is the soul's and half atones	P
And half makes bitterer their loss	P
Remembering what their fortune was	P
Trembling Hypsipyle uplift	S2
Her eyes towards the hills where swift	S2
The shadows flew but no more fleet	S2
Than often she with flying feet	S2
And flying raiment she with these	P
Her mates whom now estranged she sees	P
As if the shadow world had spread	S2
About her now and she was dead	S2
Her mates no more cut off by fear	F3
From these two fearless ones A tear	F3
Welled up and hovered hung a gem	J3
Upon her eyelid's dusky hem	J3
As raindrops linkt and strung arow	F3
Broider with stars the winter bough	U2
This was her requiem and farewell	C
To them thus rang she her own knell	C
Nor more gave she nor more asked they	S2
But took and went the fairy way	S2
For thus with unshed tears made blind	S2
Went she thus go the fairy kind	S2
Whither fate driveth not as we	C
Who fight with it and deem us free	C
Therefore and after pine or strain	R2
Against our prison bars in vain	R2
For to them Fate is Lord of Life	P2
And Death and idle is a strife	P2
With such a master They not know	C
Life past life coming but life now	U2
Nor back look they to long nor forth	K3
To hope but sup the minute's worth	B
With draught so quick and keen that each	L3
Moment gives more than we could reach	L3
In all our term of three score years	P
Whereof full score we give to fears	P
Of losing them and other score	F3
Dreaming how fill the twenty more	F3
Now is the hour Bride of the Night	S2
The chariot turns the great steeds fight	S2
The rocky entry flies the dust	S2
Behind the wheels at each fierce thrust	S2
Of giant shoulder at each lunge	M3
Of giant haunch Down down they plunge	M3
Into the dark with rioting mane	R2
And the earth's door shuts to again	R2
Now fly ye Oreads strain your arms	P
Let eyes and hair voice your alarms	P
Hair blown back mouths astretch for fear	F3
Strained eyeballs cry that Mother dear	F3
Her daughter's rape fly like the gale	C
That down the valleys drives the hail	C
In scurrying sheets and lays the corn	R2
Flat which when man of woman born	R2
Seeth he bows him to the grass	P
Whispering in hush The Oreads pass	P
In shock he knows ye and in mirth	B
Since he is kindred of that earth	B
Which bore ye in her secret stress	P
Images of her loveliness	P
To her dear paramour the Wind	S2
Follow me now that car behind	S2
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II	A2
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O ye that know the fairy throng	V2
And heed their secret under song	V2
In flower or leaf's still ecstasy	P
Of birth and bud their passion see	P
In wind or calm in driving rain	R2
Or frozen snow discern them strain	R2
To utter and to be who lie	P2
At dawn in dewy brakes to spy	P2
The rapture of their flying feet	S2
Follow me now those coursers fleet	S2
Sucked in their wake down ruining	V2
Through channelled night where only sing	V2
The shrill gusts streaming through the hair	F3
Of them who sway and bend them there	F3
And peer in vain with shielded eyes	P
To rend the dark Clinging it lies	P
Thick as wet gossamer that shrouds	P
October brushwoods or low clouds	P
That from the mountain tops roll down	R2
Into the lowland vales to drown	R2
Men's voices and to choke their breath	N3
And make a silence like to death	N3
But this was hot and dry it came	H3
And smote them like the gush of flame	H3
Fanned in a smithy that outpours	P
And floods with fire the open doors	P
Downward their course was swift as flight	S2
Of meteor flaring through the night	S2
Steady and dreadful with no sound	S2
Of wheels or hoofs upon the ground	S2
Nor jolt nor jar for once past through	F3
Earth's portals steeds and chariot flew	F3
On wings invisible and strong	V2
And even oaring such as throng	V2
The nights when birds of passage sweep	O3
O'er cities and the folk asleep	O3
Such was their awful flight Afar	F3
Showed Hades glimmering like a star	F3
Seen red through fog and as they sped	S2
To that the frontiers of the dead	S2
Revealed their sullen leagues and bare	F3
And sad forms flitting here and there	F3
Or clustered waiting who might come	X2
Their empty ways with news of home	P3
Yet all one course at length must hold	S2
Or late or soon and all be tolled	S2
By Charon in his dark prowed boat	S2
Thither was swept the chariot	S2
And crossed dry wheeled the coiling flood	S2
Of Styx and o'er the willow wood	S2
And slim gray poplars which do hem	J3
The further shore Hell's diadem	J3
So by the tower foursquare and great	S2
Where King A doneus keeps his state	S2
And rules his bodyless thralls they stand	S2
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Dark ridge and hollow showed the land	S2
Fold over fold like waves of soot	S2
Fixt in an anguish of pursuit	S2
For evermore so far as eye	P2
Could range and all was hot and dry	P2
As furnace is which all about	S2
Etna scorcheth in days of drouth	N3
And showeth dun and sinister	F3
That fair isle linked to main so fair	F3
Nor tree nor herbage grew nor sang	V2
Water among the rocks hard rang	V2
The heel on metal or on crust	S2
Grew tender or went soft in dust	S2
Neither for beast nor bird nor snake	V2
Was harbourage nor could such slake	V2
Their thirst nor from the bitter heat	S2
Hide since the sun not furnished it	S2
But airless shadowless and dense	P
The land lay swooning dead to sense	P
Beneath that vault of stuprous black	V2
Motionless hanging without wrack	V2
Of cloud to break and pass nor rent	S2
To hint the blue Like the foul tent	S2
A foul night makes it sagged for stars	P
Showed hopeless faces with two scars	P
In each their eyes' immortal woe	C
Ever to seek and never know	C
In all that still immensity	S2
These only moved these and the sea	P
Which dun and sullen heaved with surge	I3
And swell unseen save at the verge	I3
Where fainted off the black to gray	S2
And showed such light as on a day	S2
Of sun's eclipse men tremble at	S2
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Here the dead people moved or sat	S2
Casting no shadow hailing none	R2
Boldly but in fierce undertone	R2
They plied each other or on sped	S2
Their way with signal of the head	S2
For answer or arms desperate	S2
Flung up or shrug disconsolate	S2
And this the quest of every one	R2
What hope have ye And answer None	R2
Never passed shadow shadow but	S2
That answer got to question put	S2
In that they lived in that alas	P
Lovely and hapless Thou must pass	P
Thy days with this for added lot	S2
Aching to nurse things unforgot	S2
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Remember'd joy Hypsipyle	F3
The Oread choir the Oread glee	F3
The nimble air of quickening hills	P
The sweet dawn light that floods and fills	P
The hollowed valleys the dawn wind	S2
That bids the world wake and on blind	S2
Eyelids of sleeping mortals lays	P
Cool palms that urge them see and praise	P
The Day God coming with the sun	R2
To hearten toil He warned you run	R2
And hide your beauties deep in brake	V2
Of fern or briar or reed of lake	V2
Or in wet crevice of the rock	V2
There to abide until the clock	V2
You reckon by with shadowy hands	P
Lay benediction on the lands	P
And landsmen and the eve jar's croak	V2
Summon ye lightfoot fairy folk	V2
To your activity full tide	S2
Over the empty earth and wide	S2
Here be your food fair nymph and coy	V2
Of mortal ken remember'd joy	V2
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Remember'd joy Ah stormy nights	P
Ah the mad revel when wind fights	P
With wind and slantwise comes the rain	R2
And shatters at the window pane	R2
To wake the hind who little knows	P
Whose fingers drum those passionate blows	P
Nor what swift indwellers of air	F3
Ye be who hide in forms so fair	F3
Your wayward motions cruel to us	P
While lovely and dispiteous	P
Ah nights of flying scud and rout	S2
When scared the slim young moon rides out	S2
In her lagoon of open sky	V2
Or older marks your revelry	F3
As calm and large she oars above	P2
Your drifting lives of ruth or love	P2
Boon were those nights of dusted gold	S2
And glint of fireflies Boon the cold	S2
And witching frost All's one all's one	R2
To thee whose nights and days go on	R2
Now in one span of changeless dusk	V2
On one earth crackling like the husk	V2
Of the dropt mast in winter wood	S2
Remember'd joy 'tis all thy food	S2
Hypsipyle to whose fond sprite	S2
I vow my praise while I have light	S2
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Dumbly she wandered there as pale	F3
With lack of light with form as frail	F3
As those poor hollow congeners	P
Whose searching eyes encountered hers	P
Petitioning as mute as she	F3
Some grain of hope where none might be	F3
Daring not yet to voice their moan	R2
To her whose case was not their own	R2
For where they go like breath in a shell	F3
That wails my love goes quick in Hell	F3
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Alas for her the sweet and slim	Q3
Slowly she pines her eyes grow dim	Q3
With seeking her smooth sudden breasts	P
Hang languidly those little nests	P
For kisses which her dimples were	F3
In cheeks graved hollow now by care	F3
Vanish and sharply thrusts her chin	R2
And sharp her bones of arm and shin	R2
Reproach she looks about above	P2
Denied her light denied her love	P2
Denied for what she sacrificed	S2
Doomed to be fruitless agonist	S2
O God and I must see her fade	S2
Must see and anguish in my shade	S2
Nor help nor comfort gat she now	U2
From her whose need called forth her vow	U2
For close in arms Queen Kor dwelt	S2
In that great tower A doneus built	S2
To cherish her deep in his bed	S2
Loved as the Gods love whom they wed	S2
Turned from pale maiden to pale wife	P2
Pale now with love's insatiate strife	P2
First to appease and then renew	F3
The wild desire to mingle two	F3
Natures to long to seek to shun	R2
To have to give to make two one	R2
That must be two if they would each	L3
Learn all the lore that love can teach	L3
So strove the mistress while the maid	S2
Went alien among the dead	S2
Unspoken speaking none but watcht	S2
By them who knew themselves outmatcht	S2
By her translated whole nor guessed	S2
What miseries gnawed within that breast	S2
Which could be toucht which could give meat	S2
To babe which was not eye deceit	S2
As theirs poor phantoms So went she	F3
Grudged but unscathed beside the sea	F3
Or sat alone by that sad strand	S2
Nursing her worn cheek in her hand	S2
And did not mark as day on day	S2
Lengthened the arch of changeless gray	S2
How she was shadowed how to her	F3
Stretcht arms another prisoner	F3
Nor knew herself desirable	F3
By any thankless guest of Hell	F3
Withal each phantom seemed no less	P
Whole natured to her heedlessness	P
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Midway her round of solitude	S2
She used to haunt a dead sea wood	S2
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Where among boulders lifeless trees	P
Stuck rigid fingers to the breeze	P
That stream of faint hot air that flits	P
Aimless at noon 'Tis there she sits	P
Hour after hour and as a dove	P2
Croons when her breast is ripe for love	P2
So sings this exile quiet sad chants	P
Of love yet knows not what she wants	P
And singing there in undertone	R2
Is one day answered by the moan	R2
Of hidden mourner but no fear	F3
Hath she for sound so true though near	F3
Nay but sings out her elegy	F3
Which like an echo answers he	F3
Again she sings he suits her mood	S2
Nor breaks upon her solitude	S2
So she choragus calls the tune	R2
And as she leads he follows soon	R2
As bird with bird vies in the brake	V2
She sings no note he will not take	V2
As when she pleads Ah my lost love	P2
The night is dark thou art not of	P2
Quick cometh answering the phrase	P
O love let all our nights be days	P
This rapt with beating heart she heeds	P
And follows Sweet love my heart bleeds	P
Come stay the wound thyself didst give	P2
Then he I come to bid thee live	P2
And so they carol and her heart	S2
Swells to believe his counterpart	S2
And stroph striketh clear which he	F3
Caps with his brave antistrophe	P2
And as a maiden waxes bold	S2
And opens what should not be told	S2
When all her auditory she sees	P
Within her mirror so to trees	P
And rocks and sullen sounding main	R2
She empties all her passioned pain	R2
And love love love her burden is	P
And I am starving for thee his	P
Moved melted all on fire she stands	P
Holding abroad her quivering hands	P
Raises her sweet eyes faint with tears	P
And dares to seek him whom she hears	P
And from her parted lips a sigh	P2
Stealeth as knowing he is nigh	P2
And her fate on her then she'd shun	R2
That which she seeks but the thing's done	R2
	-
Hollow voiced dim spake her a shade	S2
O thou that comest nymph or maid	S2
If nymph then maiden since for aye	P2
Virgin is immortality	F3
Nor love can change what Death cannot	S2
Look on me by love new begot	S2
Look on me child new born nor start	S2
To see my form who knowest my heart	S2
For it is thine O Mother and Wife	P2
Take then my love thou gavest it life	P2
	-
So spake one close to whom she lent	S2
The wonder of her eyes' content	S2
That lucent gray as if moonlight	S2
Shone through a sapphire in the night	S2
And saw him faintly imaged rare	F3
As wisp of cloud on hillside bare	F3
A filamental form a wraith	N3
Shaped like that man who in the faith	N3
Of one puts all his hope who stood	S2
Trembling in her near neighbourhood	S2
A thing of haunted eyes of slim	Q3
And youthful seeming yet not dim	Q3
Yet not unmanly in his fashion	R2
Of speech nor impotent of passion	R2
The which his tones gave earnest of	P2
And his asp ct of hopeless love	P2
Who drawing nearer came to stand	S2
So close beside her that one hand	S2
Lit on her shoulder yet no touch	Q
She felt O maiden overmuch	Q
He grieved O body far too sweet	S2
For such as I frail counterfeit	S2
Of man who yet was once a man	R2
Cut off before the midmost span	R2
Of mortal life was but half run	R2
Or ere to love he had found one	R2
Like thee yet happy in that fate	S2
That waiting he is fortunate	S2
For better far in Hell to fare	F3
With thee than commerce otherwhere	F3
Sharing the snug and fat outlook	V2
Of bed and board and ingle nook	V2
With earth bound woman earth born child	S2
Nay but high love is free and wild	S2
And centreth not in mortal things	P
But to the soul giveth he wings	P
And with the soul strikes partnership	B3
So may two let corruption slip	B3
And breasting level with far eyes	P
Lifted seek haven in the skies	P
Untrammel'd by the earthly mesh	Q
O thou said he of fairy flesh	Q
Immortal prisoner take of me	F3
Love 'tis my heritage in fee	F3
For I am very part thereof	P2
And share the godhead	S2
So his love	P2
Pled he with tones in love well skilled	S2
Which on her bosom beat and thrilled	S2
And pierced No word nor look she had	S2
To voice her heart or sad or glad	S2
Rapt stood she wooed by eager word	S2
And by her need whose cry she heard	S2
Above his crying but she guessed	S2
She was desired beset possessed	S2
Already handfasted to sight	S2
And yielding so her heart she plight	S2
	-
Thus was her mating of the eyes	P
And ears and her love half surmise	P
Detected by her burning face	P
Which saw not felt his fierce embrace	P
For on her own she knew no hand	S2
When caging it he seemed to stand	S2
And round her waist felt not the warm	R3
Sheltered peace of the belting arm	S3
She saw him clasp withal When rained	S2
His words upon her or eyes strained	S2
As though her inmost shrine to pierce	P
Where hid her heart of hearts her ears	P
Conceived although her body sweet	S2
Might never feel a young life beat	S2
And leap within it Ah what cry	F3
That mistress e'er heard poet sigh	F3
Could voice thy beauty Or what chant	S2
Of music be thy ministrant	S2
Since thou art Music poesy	P
Must both thy spouse and increase be	F3
	-
In the hot dust where lizards crouch	Q
And pant he made her bridal couch	Q
Thither down drew her to his side	S2
And phantom taught her to be bride	S2
With words so ardent looks so hot	S2
She needs must feel what she had not	S2
Guess herself in beleaguered bed	S2
And throb response Thus she was wed	S2
As she whom Zeus loved in a cloud	S2
So lay she in her lover's shroud	S2
And o'er her members crept the chill	F3
We know when mist creeps up a hill	F3
Out of the vale at eve As grows	P
The ivy rooting as it goes	P
In such a quick close envelope	T3
She lay aswoon nor guessed the scope	T3
Nor tether of his hot intent	S2
Nor what to that inert she lent	S2
Save when at last with half turned head	S2
And glimmering eyes encompass d	F3
She saw herself a bride possest	F3
By ghostly bridegroom held and prest	F3
To unfelt bosom saw his mouth	N3
Against her own which to his drouth	N3
Gave no allay that she could sense	P
Nor took of her sweet recompense	P
So moved by pity stirred by rue	F3
Out of their onslaught young love grew	F3
Love that with delicate tongues of fire	F3
Can kindle hearts inflamed desire	F3
In her for him who needed it	F3
And so she claimed and by eyes' wit	F3
Had what she would and now made war	F3
Being as all sweet women are	F3
Prudes till Love calls them and then fierce	P
In love's high calling Thus with her ears	P
She fed on love and to her eyes	P
Lent deeds of passionate emprise	P
Till at the last the shadowy strife	P2
Ended she owned herself all wife	P2
	-
High mating of the mind O love	P2
Since this must be on this she throve	P2
Remember'd joy Hypsipyle	F3
Since this must be O love let be	F3
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Maurice Henry Hewlett

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