Epipsychidion. Verses Addressed To The Noble And Unfortunate Lady, Emilia V - Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Sweet Spirit Sister of that orphan one	A
Whose empire is the name thou weepest on	B
In my heart's temple I suspend to thee	C
These votive wreaths of withered memory	C
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Poor captive bird who from thy narrow cage	D
Pourest such music that it might assuage	D
The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee	C
Were they not deaf to all sweet melody	C
This song shall be thy rose its petals pale	E
Are dead indeed my adored Nightingale	E
But soft and fragrant is the faded blossom	F
And it has no thorn left to wound thy bosom	F
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High spirit winged Heart who dost for ever	G
Beat thine unfeeling bars with vain endeavour	G
Till those bright plumes of thought in which arrayed	H
It over soared this low and worldly shade	H
Lie shattered and thy panting wounded breast	I
Stains with dear blood its unmaternal nest	I
I weep vain tears blood would less bitter be	C
Yet poured forth gladlier could it profit thee	C
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Seraph of Heaven too gentle to be human	A
Veiling beneath that radiant form of Woman	A
All that is insupportable in thee	C
Of light and love and immortality	C
Sweet Benediction in the eternal Curse	J
Veiled Glory of this lampless Universe	J
Thou Moon beyond the clouds Thou living Form	K
Among the Dead Thou Star above the Storm	K
Thou Wonder and thou Beauty and thou Terror	G
Thou Harmony of Nature's art Thou Mirror	G
In whom as in the splendour of the Sun	A
All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on	B
Ay even the dim words which obscure thee now	L
Flash lightning like with unaccustomed glow	M
I pray thee that thou blot from this sad song	N
All of its much mortality and wrong	N
With those clear drops which start like sacred dew	O
From the twin lights thy sweet soul darkens through	O
Weeping till sorrow becomes ecstasy	C
Then smile on it so that it may not die	P
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I never thought before my death to see	C
Youth's vision thus made perfect Emily	C
I love thee though the world by no thin name	Q
Will hide that love from its unvalued shame	Q
Would we two had been twins of the same mother	G
Or that the name my heart lent to another	G
Could be a sister's bond for her and thee	C
Blending two beams of one eternity	C
Yet were one lawful and the other true	O
These names though dear could paint not as is due	O
How beyond refuge I am thine Ah me	C
I am not thine I am a part of THEE	C
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Sweet Lamp my moth like Muse has burned its wings	R
Or like a dying swan who soars and sings	R
Young Love should teach Time in his own gray style	S
All that thou art Art thou not void of guile	S
A lovely soul formed to be blessed and bless	T
A well of sealed and secret happiness	U
Whose waters like blithe light and music are	V
Vanquishing dissonance and gloom A Star	V
Which moves not in the moving heavens alone	W
A Smile amid dark frowns a gentle tone	W
Amid rude voices a beloved light	X
A Solitude a Refuge a Delight	X
A Lute which those whom Love has taught to play	Y
Make music on to soothe the roughest day	Y
And lull fond Grief asleep a buried treasure	G
A cradle of young thoughts of wingless pleasure	G
A violet shrouded grave of Woe I measure	G
The world of fancies seeking one like thee	C
And find alas mine own infirmity	C
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She met me Stranger upon life's rough way	Y
And lured me towards sweet Death as Night by Day	Y
Winter by Spring or Sorrow by swift Hope	Z
Led into light life peace An antelope	Z
In the suspended impulse of its lightness	U
Were less aethereally light the brightness	U
Of her divinest presence trembles through	O
Her limbs as underneath a cloud of dew	O
Embodied in the windless heaven of June	A2
Amid the splendour winged stars the Moon	A2
Burns inextinguishably beautiful	B2
And from her lips as from a hyacinth full	C2
Of honey dew a liquid murmur drops	D2
Killing the sense with passion sweet as stops	D2
Of planetary music heard in trance	E2
In her mild lights the starry spirits dance	E2
The sunbeams of those wells which ever leap	F2
Under the lightnings of the soul too deep	F2
For the brief fathom line of thought or sense	G2
The glory of her being issuing thence	G2
Stains the dead blank cold air with a warm shade	H
Of unentangled intermixture made	H
By Love of light and motion one intense	G2
Diffusion one serene Omnipresence	H2
Whose flowing outlines mingle in their flowing	I2
Around her cheeks and utmost fingers glowing	I2
With the unintermitted blood which there	J2
Quivers as in a fleece of snow like air	J2
The crimson pulse of living morning quiver	G
Continuously prolonged and ending never	G
Till they are lost and in that Beauty furled	H
Which penetrates and clasps and fills the world	H
Scarce visible from extreme loveliness	H2
Warm fragrance seems to fall from her light dress	H2
And her loose hair and where some heavy tress	H2
The air of her own speed has disentwined	H
The sweetness seems to satiate the faint wind	H
And in the soul a wild odour is felt	H
Beyond the sense like fiery dews that melt	H
Into the bosom of a frozen bud	H
See where she stands a mortal shape indued	H
With love and life and light and deity	H
And motion which may change but cannot die	H
An image of some bright Eternity	H
A shadow of some golden dream a Splendour	G
Leaving the third sphere pilotless a tender	G
Reflection of the eternal Moon of Love	K2
Under whose motions life's dull billows move	L2
A Metaphor of Spring and Youth and Morning	I2
A Vision like incarnate April warning	I2
With smiles and tears Frost the Anatomy	H
Into his summer grave	M2
Ah woe is me	H
What have I dared where am I lifted how	L
Shall I descend and perish not I know	M
That Love makes all things equal I have heard	H
By mine own heart this joyous truth averred	H
The spirit of the worm beneath the sod	H
In love and worship blends itself with God	H
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Spouse Sister Angel Pilot of the Fate	H
Whose course has been so starless O too late	H
Beloved O too soon adored by me	H
For in the fields of Immortality	H
My spirit should at first have worshipped thine	N2
A divine presence in a place divine	N2
Or should have moved beside it on this earth	O2
A shadow of that substance from its birth	O2
But not as now I love thee yes I feel	P2
That on the fountain of my heart a seal	P2
Is set to keep its waters pure and bright	H
For thee since in those TEARS thou hast delight	H
We are we not formed as notes of music are	G
For one another though dissimilar	G
Such difference without discord as can make	Q2
Those sweetest sounds in which all spirits shake	Q2
As trembling leaves in a continuous air	G
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Thy wisdom speaks in me and bids me dare	G
Beacon the rocks on which high hearts are wrecked	H
I never was attached to that great sect	H
Whose doctrine is that each one should select	H
Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend	H
And all the rest though fair and wise commend	H
To cold oblivion though it is in the code	H
Of modern morals and the beaten road	H
Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread	H
Who travel to their home among the dead	H
By the broad highway of the world and so	M
With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe	M
The dreariest and the longest journey go	M
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True Love in this differs from gold and clay	Y
That to divide is not to take away	Y
Love is like understanding that grows bright	H
Gazing on many truths 'tis like thy light	H
Imagination which from earth and sky	H
And from the depths of human fantasy	H
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors fills	H2
The Universe with glorious beams and kills	H2
Error the worm with many a sun like arrow	M
Of its reverberated lightning Narrow	M
The heart that loves the brain that contemplates	H2
The life that wears the spirit that creates	H2
One object and one form and builds thereby	H
A sepulchre for its eternity	H
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Mind from its object differs most in this	H2
Evil from good misery from happiness	H2
The baser from the nobler the impure	G
And frail from what is clear and must endure	G
If you divide suffering and dross you may	Y
Diminish till it is consumed away	Y
If you divide pleasure and love and thought	H
Each part exceeds the whole and we know not	H
How much while any yet remains unshared	H
Of pleasure may be gained of sorrow spared	H
This truth is that deep well whence sages draw	G
The unenvied light of hope the eternal law	G
By which those live to whom this world of life	R2
Is as a garden ravaged and whose strife	R2
Tills for the promise of a later birth	O2
The wilderness of this Elysian earth	O2
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There was a Being whom my spirit oft	H
Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft	H
In the clear golden prime of my youth's dawn	S2
Upon the fairy isles of sunny lawn	S2
Amid the enchanted mountains and the caves	H2
Of divine sleep and on the air like waves	H2
Of wonder level dream whose tremulous floor	G
Paved her light steps on an imagined shore	G
Under the gray beak of some promontory	G
She met me robed in such exceeding glory	G
That I beheld her not In solitudes	H2
Her voice came to me through the whispering woods	H2
And from the fountains and the odours deep	F2
Of flowers which like lips murmuring in their sleep	F2
Of the sweet kisses which had lulled them there	G
Breathed but of HER to the enamoured air	G
And from the breezes whether low or loud	H
And from the rain of every passing cloud	H
And from the singing of the summer birds	H2
And from all sounds all silence In the words	H2
Of antique verse and high romance in form	K
Sound colour in whatever checks that Storm	K
Which with the shattered present chokes the past	H
And in that best philosophy whose taste	H
Makes this cold common hell our life a doom	T2
As glorious as a fiery martyrdom	F
Her Spirit was the harmony of truth	U2
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Then from the caverns of my dreamy youth	U2
I sprang as one sandalled with plumes of fire	G
And towards the lodestar of my one desire	G
I flitted like a dizzy moth whose flight	H
Is as a dead leaf's in the owlet light	H
When it would seek in Hesper's setting sphere	G
A radiant death a fiery sepulchre	G
As if it were a lamp of earthly flame	Q
But She whom prayers or tears then could not tame	Q
Passed like a God throned on a winged planet	H
Whose burning plumes to tenfold swiftness fan it	H
Into the dreary cone of our life's shade	H
And as a man with mighty loss dismayed	H
I would have followed though the grave between	V2
Yawned like a gulf whose spectres are unseen	V2
When a voice said 'O thou of hearts the weakest	H
The phantom is beside thee whom thou seekest '	-
Then I 'Where ' the world's echo answered 'where '	-
And in that silence and in my despair	G
I questioned every tongueless wind that flew	O
Over my tower of mourning if it knew	O
Whither 'twas fled this soul out of my soul	W2
And murmured names and spells which have control	W2
Over the sightless tyrants of our fate	H
But neither prayer nor verse could dissipate	H
The night which closed on her nor uncreate	H
That world within this Chaos mine and me	G
Of which she was the veiled Divinity	G
The world I say of thoughts that worshipped her	G
And therefore I went forth with hope and fear	G
And every gentle passion sick to death	X2
Feeding my course with expectation's breath	X2
Into the wintry forest of our life	R2
And struggling through its error with vain strife	R2
And stumbling in my weakness and my haste	H
And half bewildered by new forms I passed	H
Seeking among those untaught foresters	H2
If I could find one form resembling hers	H2
In which she might have masked herself from me	G
There One whose voice was venomed melody	G
Sate by a well under blue nightshade bowers	H2
The breath of her false mouth was like faint flowers	H2
Her touch was as electric poison flame	Q
Out of her looks into my vitals came	Q
And from her living cheeks and bosom flew	O
A killing air which pierced like honey dew	O
Into the core of my green heart and lay	Y
Upon its leaves until as hair grown gray	Y
O'er a young brow they hid its unblown prime	Y2
With ruins of unseasonable time	Y2
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In many mortal forms I rashly sought	H
The shadow of that idol of my thought	H
And some were fair but beauty dies away	Y
Others were wise but honeyed words betray	Y
And One was true oh why not true to me	G
Then as a hunted deer that could not flee	G
I turned upon my thoughts and stood at bay	Y
Wounded and weak and panting the cold day	Y
Trembled for pity of my strife and pain	Z2
When like a noonday dawn there shone again	A3
Deliverance One stood on my path who seemed	H
As like the glorious shape which I had d reamed	H
As is the Moon whose changes ever run	A
Into themselves to the eternal Sun	A
The cold chaste Moon the Queen of Heaven's bright isles	H2
Who makes all beautiful on which she smiles	H2
That wandering shrine of soft yet icy flame	Q
Which ever is transformed yet still the same	Q
And warms not but illumines Young and fair	G
As the descended Spirit of that sphere	G
She hid me as the Moon may hide the night	H
From its own darkness until all was bright	H
Between the Heaven and Earth of my calm mind	H
And as a cloud charioted by the wind	H
She led me to a cave in that wild place	H2
And sate beside me with her downward face	H2
Illumining my slumbers like the Moon	A2
Waxing and waning o'er Endymion	A2
And I was laid asleep spirit and limb	B3
And all my being became bright or dim	B3
As the Moon's image in a summer sea	G
According as she smiled or frowned on me	G
And there I lay within a chaste cold bed	H
Alas I then was nor alive nor dead	H
For at her silver voice came Death and Life	R2
Unmindful each of their accustomed strife	R2
Masked like twin babes a sister and a brother	G
The wandering hopes of one abandoned mother	G
And through the cavern without wings they flew	O
And cried 'Away he is not of our crew '	-
I wept and though it be a dream I weep	F2
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What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep	F2
Blotting that Moon whose pale and waning lips	H2
Then shrank as in the sickness of eclipse	H2
And how my soul was as a lampless sea	G
And who was then its Tempest and when She	G
The Planet of that hour was quenched what frost	H
Crept o'er those waters till from coast to coast	H
The moving billows of my being fell	C3
Into a death of ice immovable	B2
And then what earthquakes made it gape and split	H
The white Moon smiling all the while on it	H
These words conceal If not each word would be	G
The key of staunchless tears Weep not for me	G
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At length into the obscure Forest came	Q
The Vision I had sought through grief and shame	Q
Athwart that wintry wilderness of thorns	H2
Flashed from her motion splendour like the Morn's	H2
And from her presence life was radiated	H
Through the gray earth and branches bare and dead	H
So that her way was paved and roofed above	K2
With flowers as soft as thoughts of budding love	K2
And music from her respiration spread	H
Like light all other sounds were penetrated	H
By the small still sweet spirit of that sound	H
So that the savage winds hung mute around	H
And odours warm and fresh fell from her hair	G
Dissolving the dull cold in the frore air	G
Soft as an Incarnation of the Sun	A2
When light is changed to love this glorious One	A2
Floated into the cavern where I lay	Y
And called my Spirit and the dreaming clay	Y
Was lifted by the thing that dreamed below	M
As smoke by fire and in her beauty's glow	M
I stood and felt the dawn of my long night	H
Was penetrating me with living light	H
I knew it was the Vision veiled from me	G
So many years that it was Emily	G
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Twin Spheres of light who rule this passive Earth	O2
This world of loves this ME and into birth	O2
Awaken all its fruits and flowers and dart	H
Magnetic might into its central heart	H
And lift its billows and its mists and guide	H
By everlasting laws each wind and tide	H
To its fit cloud and its appointed cave	M2
And lull its storms each in the craggy grave	M2
Which was its cradle luring to faint bowers	H2
The armies of the rainbow winged showers	H2
And as those married lights which from the towers	H2
Of Heaven look forth and fold the wandering globe	D3
In liquid sleep and splendour as a robe	D3
And all their many mingled influence blend	H
If equal yet unlike to one sweet end	H
So ye bright regents with alternate sway	Y
Govern my sphere of being night and day	Y
Thou not disdaining even a borrowed might	H
Thou not eclipsing a remoter light	H
And through the shadow of the seasons three	G
From Spring to Autumn's sere maturity	G
Light it into the Winter of the tomb	T2
Where it may ripen to a brighter bloom	T2
Thou too O Comet beautiful and fierce	H2
Who drew the heart of this frail Universe	H2
Towards thine own till wrecked in that convulsion	A2
Alternating attraction and repulsion	A2
Thine went astray and that was rent in twain	A2
Oh float into our azure heaven again	A2
Be there Love's folding star at thy return	A2
The living Sun will feed thee from its urn	A2
Of golden fire the Moon will veil her horn	A2
In thy last smiles adoring Even and Morn	A2
Will worship thee with incense of calm breath	X2
And lights and shadows as the star of Death	X2
And Birth is worshipped by those sisters wild	H
Called Hope and Fear upon the heart are piled	H
Their offerings of this sacrifice divine	A2
A World shall be the altar	G
Lady mine	A2
Scorn not these flowers of thought the fading birth	O2
Which from its heart of hearts that plant puts forth	E3
Whose fruit made perfect by thy sunny eyes	H2
Will be as of the trees of Paradise	H2
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The day is come and thou wilt fly with me	G
To whatsoe'er of dull mortality	G
Is mine remain a vestal sister still	F3
To the intense the deep the imperishable	F3
Not mine but me henceforth be thou united	H
Even as a bride delighting and delighted	H
The hour is come the destined Star has risen	A2
Which shall descend upon a vacant prison	A2
The walls are high the gates are strong thick set	H
The sentinels but true Love never yet	H
Was thus constrained it overleaps all fence	H2
Like lightning with invisible violence	H2
Piercing its continents like Heaven's free breath	X2
Which he who grasps can hold not liker Death	X2
Who rides upon a thought and makes his way	Y
Through temple tower and palace and the array	Y
Of arms more strength has Love than he or they	Y
For it can burst his charnel and make free	G
The limbs in chains the heart in agony	G
The soul in dust and chaos	H2
Emily	G
A ship is floating in the harbour now	A2
A wind is hovering o'er the mountain's brow	A2
There is a path on the sea's azure floor	G
No keel has ever ploughed that path before	G
The halcyons brood around the foamless isles	H2
The treacherous Ocean has forsworn its wiles	H2
The merry mariners are bold and free	G
Say my heart's sister wilt thou sail with me	G
Our bark is as an albatross whose nest	H
Is a far Eden of the purple East	H
And we between her wings will sit while Night	H
And Day and Storm and Calm pursue their flight	H
Our ministers along the boundless Sea	G
Treading each other's heels unheededly	G
It is an isle under Ionian skies	H2
Beautiful as a wreck of Paradise	H2
And for the harbours are not safe and good	H
This land would have remained a solitude	H
But for some pastoral people native there	G
Who from the Elysian clear and golden air	G
Draw the last spirit of the age of gold	H
Simple and spirited innocent and bold	H
The blue Aegean girds this chosen home	G3
With ever changing sound and light and foam	G3
Kissing the sifted sands and caverns hoar	G
And all the winds wandering along the shore	G
Undulate with the undulating tide	H
There are thick woods where sylvan forms abide	H
And many a fountain rivulet and pond	H
As clear as elemental diamond	H
Or serene morning air and far beyond	H
The mossy tracks made by the goats and deer	G
Which the rough shepherd treads but once a year	G
Pierce into glades caverns and bowers and halls	H2
Built round with ivy which the waterfalls	H2
Illumining with sound that never fails	H2
Accompany the noonday nightingales	H2
And all the place is peopled with sweet airs	H2
The light clear element which the isle wears	H2
Is heavy with the scent of lemon flowers	H2
Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers	H2
And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep	F2
And from the moss violets and jonquils peep	F2
And dart their arrowy odour through the brain	A2
Till you might faint with that delicious pain	A2
And every motion odour beam and tone	A2
With that deep music is in unison	A2
Which is a soul within the soul they seem	H3
Like echoes of an antenatal dream	H3
It is an isle 'twixt Heaven Air Earth and Sea	H2
Cradled and hung in clear tranquillity	H
Bright as that wandering Eden Lucifer	G
Washed by the soft blue Oceans of young air	G
It is a favoured place Famine or Blight	H
Pestilence War and Earthquake never light	H
Upon its mountain peaks blind vultures they	Y
Sail onward far upon their fatal way	Y
The winged storms chanting their thunder psalm	I3
To other lands leave azure chasms of calm	J3
Over this isle or weep themselves in dew	H
From which its fields and woods ever renew	H
Their green and golden immortality	H
And from the sea there rise and from the sky	H
There fall clear exhalations soft and bright	H
Veil after veil each hiding some delight	H
Which Sun or Moon or zephyr draw aside	H
Till the isle's beauty like a naked bride	H
Glowing at once with love and loveliness	H2
Blushes and trembles at its own excess	H2
Yet like a buried lamp a Soul no less	H2
Burns in the heart of this delicious isle	G
An atom of th' Eternal whose own smile	G
Unfolds itself and may be felt not seen	A2
O'er the gray rocks blue waves and forests green	A2
Filling their bare and void interstices	H2
But the chief marvel of the wilderness	H2
Is a lone dwelling built by whom or how	A2
None of the rustic island people know	A2
'Tis not a tower of strength though with its height	H
It overtops the woods but for delight	H
Some wise and tender Ocean King ere crime	Y2
Had been invented in the world's young prime	Y2
Reared it a wonder of that simple time	Y2
An envy of the isles a pleasure house	H2
Made sacred to his sister and his spouse	H2
It scarce seems now a wreck of human art	H
But as it were Titanic in the heart	H
Of Earth having assumed its form then grown	A2
Out of the mountains from the living stone	A2
Lifting itself in caverns light and high	H
For all the antique and learned imagery	H
Has been erased and in the place of it	H
The ivy and the wild vine interknit	H
The volumes of their many twining stems	H2
Parasite flowers illume with dewy gems	H2
The lampless halls and when they fade the sky	H
Peeps through their winter woof of tracery	H
With moonlight patches or star atoms keen	A2
Or fragments of the day's intense serene	A2
Working mosaic on their Parian floors	H2
And day and night aloof from the high towers	H2
And terraces the Earth and Ocean seem	H3
To sleep in one another's arms and dream	H3
Of waves flowers clouds woods rocks and all that we	H
Read in their smiles and call reality	H
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This isle and house are mine and I have vowed	H
Thee to be lady of the solitude	H
And I have fitted up some chambers there	H
Looking towards the golden Eastern air	H
And level with the living winds which flow	A2
Like waves above the living waves below	A2
I have sent books and music there and all	G
Those instruments with which high Spirits call	G
The future from its cradle and the past	H
Out of its grave and make the present last	H
In thoughts and joys which sleep but cannot die	H
Folded within their own eternity	H
Our simple life wants little and true taste	H
Hires not the pale drudge Luxury to waste	H
The scene it would adorn and therefore still	G
Nature with all her children haunts the hill	G
The ring dove in the embowering ivy yet	H
Keeps up her love lament and the owls flit	H
Round the evening tower and the young stars glance	H2
Between the quick bats in their twilight dance	H2
The spotted deer bask in the fresh moonlight	H
Before our gate and the slow silent night	H
Is measured by the pants of their calm sleep	F2
Be this our home in life and when years heap	F2
Their withered hours like leaves on our decay	Y
Let us become the overhanging day	Y
The living soul of this Elysian isle	G
Conscious inseparable one Meanwhile	G
We two will rise and sit and walk together	H
Under the roof of blue Ionian weather	H
And wander in the meadows or ascend	H
The mossy mountains where the blue heavens bend	H
With lightest winds to touch their paramour	H
Or linger where the pebble paven shore	H
Under the quick faint kisses of the sea	H
Trembles and sparkles as with ecstasy	H
Possessing and possessed by all that is	H2
Within that calm circumference of bliss	H2
And by each other till to love and live	K3
Be one or at the noontide hour arrive	K3
Where some old cavern hoar seems yet to keep	F2
The moonlight of the expired night asleep	F2
Through which the awakened day can never peep	F2
A veil for our seclusion close as night's	H2
Where secure sleep may kill thine innocent lights	H2
Sleep the fresh dew of languid love the rain	A2
Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again	A2
And we will talk until thought's melody	H
Become too sweet for utterance and it die	H
In words to live again in looks which dart	H
With thrilling tone into the voiceless heart	H
Harmonizing silence without a sound	H
Our breath shall intermix our bosoms bound	H
And our veins beat together and our lips	H2
With other eloquence than words eclipse	H2
The soul that burns between them and the wells	H2
Which boil under our being's inmost cells	H2
The fountains of our deepest life shall be	H
Confused in Passion's golden purity	H
As mountain springs under the morning sun	A2
We shall become the same we shall be one	A2
Spirit within two frames oh wherefore two	H
One passion in twin hearts which grows and grew	H
Till like two meteors of expanding flame	Q
Those spheres instinct with it become the same	Q
Touch mingle are transfigured ever still	G
Burning yet ever inconsumable	G
In one another's substance finding food	H
Like flames too pure and light and unimbued	H
To nourish their bright lives with baser prey	H
Which point to Heaven and cannot pass away	H
One hope within two wills one will beneath	L3
Two overshadowing minds one life one death	X2
One Heaven one Hell one immortality	H
And one annihilation Woe is me	H
The winged words on which my soul would pierce	H2
Into the height of Love's rare Universe	H2
Are chains of lead around its flight of fire	H
I pant I sink I tremble I expire	H
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Weak Verses go kneel at your Sovereign's feet	H
And say 'We are the masters of thy slave	M2
What wouldest thou with us and ours and thine '	-
Then call your sisters from Oblivion's cave	M2
All singing loud 'Love's very pain is sweet	H
But its reward is in the world divine	A2
Which if not here it builds beyond the grave '	-
So shall ye live when I am there Then haste	H
Over the hearts of men until ye meet	H
Marina Vanna Primus and the rest	H
And bid them love each other and be blessed	H
And leave the troop which errs and which reproves	H2
And come and be my guest for I am Love's	H2

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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