Initial, Daemonic And Celestial Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I THE INITIAL LOVE	A
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Venus when her son was lost	B
Cried him up and down the coast	C
In hamlets palaces and parks	D
And told the truant by his marks	D
Golden curls and quiver and bow	E
This befell how long ago	F
Time and tide are strangely changed	G
Men and manners much deranged	G
None will now find Cupid latent	H
By this foolish antique patent	H
He came late along the waste	I
Shod like a traveller for haste	I
With malice dared me to proclaim him	J
That the maids and boys might name him	J
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Boy no more he wears all coats	K
Frocks and blouses capes capotes	K
He bears no bow or quiver or wand	L
Nor chaplet on his head or hand	M
Leave his weeds and heed his eyes	K
All the rest he can disguise	K
In the pit of his eye's a spark	N
Would bring back day if it were dark	N
And if I tell you all my thought	O
Though I comprehend it not	P
In those unfathomable orbs	K
Every function he absorbs	K
Doth eat and drink and fish and shoot	Q
And write and reason and compute	Q
And ride and run and have and hold	R
And whine and flatter and regret	S
And kiss and couple and beget	S
By those roving eyeballs bold	R
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Undaunted are their courages	K
Right Cossacks in their forages	K
Fleeter they than any creature	T
They are his steeds and not his feature	T
Inquisitive and fierce and fasting	U
Restless predatory hasting	U
And they pounce on other eyes	K
As lions on their prey	V
And round their circles is writ	W
Plainer than the day	V
Underneath within above	A
Love love love love	A
He lives in his eyes	K
There doth digest and work and spin	X
And buy and sell and lose and win	X
He rolls them with delighted motion	Y
Joy tides swell their mimic ocean	Y
Yet holds he them with tautest rein	Z
That they may seize and entertain	Z
The glance that to their glance opposes	K
Like fiery honey sucked from roses	K
He palmistry can understand	M
Imbibing virtue by his hand	M
As if it were a living root	Q
The pulse of hands will make him mute	Q
With all his force he gathers balms	K
Into those wise thrilling palms	K
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Cupid is a casuist	Q
A mystic and a cabalist	Q
Can your lurking thought surprise	K
And interpret your device	K
He is versed in occult science	K
In magic and in clairvoyance	K
Oft he keeps his fine ear strained	Q
And Reason on her tiptoe pained	Q
For a ry intelligence	K
And for strange coincidence	K
But it touches his quick heart	Q
When Fate by omens takes his part	Q
And chance dropped hints from Nature's sphere	A2
Deeply soothe his anxious ear	B2
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Heralds high before him run	Y
He has ushers many a one	Y
He spreads his welcome where he goes	K
And touches all things with his rose	K
All things wait for and divine him	J
How shall I dare to malign him	J
Or accuse the god of sport	Q
I must end my true report	Q
Painting him from head to foot	Q
In as far as I took note	Q
Trusting well the matchless power	T
Of this young eyed emperor	T
Will clear his fame from every cloud	Q
With the bards and with the crowd	Q
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He is wilful mutable	C2
Shy untamed inscrutable	C2
Swifter fashioned than the fairies	K
Substance mixed of pure contraries	K
His vice some elder virtue's token	Y
And his good is evil spoken	Y
Failing sometimes of his own	D2
He is headstrong and alone	D2
He affects the wood and wild	Q
Like a flower hunting child	Q
Buries himself in summer waves	K
In trees with beasts in mines and caves	K
Loves nature like a horn d cow	E
Bird or deer or caribou	E2
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Shun him nymphs on the fleet horses	K
He has a total world of wit	Q
O how wise are his discourses	K
But he is the arch hypocrite	Q
And through all science and all art	Q
Seeks alone his counterpart	Q
He is a Pundit of the East	Q
He is an augur and a priest	Q
And his soul will melt in prayer	F2
But word and wisdom is a snare	F2
Corrupted by the present toy	Q
He follows joy and only joy	Q
There is no mask but he will wear	F2
He invented oaths to swear	F2
He paints he carves he chants he prays	K
And holds all stars in his embrace	K
He takes a sovran privilege	G2
Not allowed to any liege	H2
For Cupid goes behind all law	I2
And right into himself does draw	I2
For he is sovereignly allied	Q
Heaven's oldest blood flows in his side	Q
And interchangeably at one	Y
With every king on every throne	D2
That no god dare say him nay	V
Or see the fault or seen betray	V
He has the Muses by the heart	Q
And the stern Parcae on his part	Q
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His many signs cannot be told	Q
He has not one mode but manifold	Q
Many fashions and addresses	K
Piques reproaches hurts caresses	K
He will preach like a friar	T
And jump like Harlequin	Y
He will read like a crier	T
And fight like a Paladin	X
Boundless is his memory	J2
Plans immense his term prolong	K2
He is not of counted age	L2
Meaning always to be young	M2
And his wish is intimacy	J2
Intimater intimacy	J2
And a stricter privacy	J2
The impossible shall yet be done	Y
And being two shall still be one	Y
As the wave breaks to foam on shelves	K
Then runs into a wave again	N2
So lovers melt their sundered selves	K
Yet melted would be twain	Z
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II THE DAEMONIC LOVE	A
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Man was made of social earth	O2
Child and brother from his birth	O2
Tethered by a liquid cord	Q
Of blood through veins of kindred poured	Q
Next his heart the fireside band	Q
Of mother father sister stand	Q
Names from awful childhood heard	Q
Throbs of a wild religion stirred	Q
Virtue to love to hate them vice	K
Till dangerous Beauty came at last	Q
Till Beauty came to snap all ties	K
The maid abolishing the past	Q
With lotus wine obliterates	K
Dear memory's stone incarved traits	K
And by herself supplants alone	D2
Friends year by year more inly known	D2
When her calm eyes opened bright	Q
All else grew foreign in their light	Q
It was ever the self same tale	P2
The first experience will not fail	P2
Only two in the garden walked	Q
And with snake and seraph talked	Q
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Close close to men	N2
Like undulating layer of air	F2
Right above their heads	K
The potent plain of Daemons spreads	K
Stands to each human soul its own	D2
For watch and ward and furtherance	K
In the snares of Nature's dance	K
And the lustre and the grace	K
To fascinate each youthful heart	Q
Beaming from its counterpart	Q
Translucent through the mortal covers	K
Is the Daemon's form and face	K
To and fro the Genius hies	K
A gleam which plays and hovers	K
Over the maiden's head	Q
And dips sometimes as low as to her eyes	K
Unknown albeit lying near	A2
To men the path to the Daemon sphere	A2
And they that swiftly come and go	F
Leave no track on the heavenly snow	F
Sometimes the airy synod bends	K
And the mighty choir descends	K
And the brains of men thenceforth	Q2
In crowded and in still resorts	K
Teem with unwonted thoughts	K
As when a shower of meteors	K
Cross the orbit of the earth	O2
And lit by fringent air	F2
Blaze near and far	R2
Mortals deem the planets bright	Q
Have slipped their sacred bars	K
And the lone seaman all the night	Q
Sails astonished amid stars	K
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Beauty of a richer vein	Z
Graces of a subtler strain	Z
Unto men these moonmen lend	Q
And our shrinking sky extend	Q
So is man's narrow path	S2
By strength and terror skirted	Q
Also from the song the wrath	S2
Of the Genii be averted	Q
The Muse the truth uncolored speaking	U
The Daemons are self seeking	U
Their fierce and limitary will	T2
Draws men to their likeness still	T2
The erring painter made Love blind	Q
Highest Love who shines on all	U2
Him radiant sharpest sighted god	Q
None can bewilder	T
Whose eyes pierce	K
The universe	K
Path finder road builder	T
Mediator royal giver	T
Rightly seeing rightly seen	V2
Of joyful and transparent mien	V2
'T is a sparkle passing	U
From each to each from thee to me	J2
To and fro perpetually	J2
Sharing all daring all	U2
Levelling displacing	U
Each obstruction it unites	K
Equals remote and seeming opposites	K
And ever and forever Love	A
Delights to build a road	Q
Unheeded Danger near him strides	K
Love laughs and on a lion rides	K
But Cupid wears another face	K
Born into Daemons less divine	W2
His roses bleach apace	K
His nectar smacks of wine	W2
The Daemon ever builds a wall	U2
Himself encloses and includes	K
Solitude in solitudes	K
In like sort his love doth fall	U2
He doth elect	Q
The beautiful and fortunate	Q
And the sons of intellect	Q
And the souls of ample fate	Q
Who the Future's gates unbar	T
Minions of the Morning Star	T
In his prowess he exults	K
And the multitude insults	K
His impatient looks devour	T
Oft the humble and the poor	T
And seeing his eye glare	T
They drop their few pale flowers	K
Gathered with hope to please	K
Along the mountain towers	K
Lose courage and despair	T
He will never be gainsaid	Q
Pitiless will not be stayed	Q
His hot tyranny	J2
Burns up every other tie	Q
Therefore comes an hour from Jove	A
Which his ruthless will defies	K
And the dogs of Fate unties	K
Shiver the palaces of glass	K
Shrivel the rainbow colored walls	K
Where in bright Art each god and sibyl dwelt	Q
Secure as in the zodiac's belt	Q
And the galleries and halls	K
Wherein every siren sung	M2
Like a meteor pass	K
For this fortune wanted root	Q
In the core of God's abysm	J2
Was a weed of self and schism	J2
And ever the Daemonic Love	A
Is the ancestor of wars	K
And the parent of remorse	K
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III THE CELESTIAL LOVE	A
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But God said	Q
'I will have a purer gift	Q
There is smoke in the flame	J2
New flowerets bring new prayers uplift	Q
And love without a name	J2
Fond children ye desire	T
To please each other well	X2
Another round a higher	T
Ye shall climb on the heavenly stair	T
And selfish preference forbear	T
And in right deserving	U
And without a swerving	U
Each from your proper state	Q
Weave roses for your mate	Q
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'Deep deep are loving eyes	K
Flowed with naphtha fiery sweet	Q
And the point is paradise	K
Where their glances meet	Q
Their reach shall yet be more profound	Q
And a vision without bound	Q
The axis of those eyes sun clear	T
Be the axis of the sphere	T
So shall the lights ye pour amain	J2
Go without check or intervals	K
Through from the empyrean walls	K
Unto the same again '	-
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Higher far into the pure realm	J2
Over sun and star	T
Over the flickering Daemon film	J2
Thou must mount for love	A
Into vision where all form	J2
In one only form dissolves	K
In a region where the wheel	Y2
On which all beings ride	Q
Visibly revolves	K
Where the starred eternal worm	J2
Girds the world with bound and term	J2
Where unlike things are like	U
Where good and ill	T2
And joy and moan	J2
Melt into one	J2
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There Past Present Future shoot	Q
Triple blossoms from one root	Q
Substances at base divided	Q
In their summits are united	Q
There the holy essence rolls	K
One through separated souls	K
And the sunny Aeon sleeps	K
Folding Nature in its deeps	K
And every fair and every good	Q
Known in part or known impure	T
To men below	F
In their archetypes endure	T
The race of gods	K
Or those we erring own	J2
Are shadows flitting up and down	J2
In the still abodes	K
The circles of that sea are laws	K
Which publish and which hide the cause	K
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Pray for a beam	J2
Out of that sphere	T
Thee to guide and to redeem	J2
O what a load	Q
Of care and toil	Z2
By lying use bestowed	Q
From his shoulders falls who sees	K
The true astronomy	J2
The period of peace	K
Counsel which the ages kept	Q
Shall the well born soul accept	Q
As the overhanging trees	K
Fill the lake with images	K
As garment draws the garment's hem	J2
Men their fortunes bring with them	J2
By right or wrong	U
Lands and goods go to the strong	U
Property will brutely draw	T
Still to the proprietor	T
Silver to silver creep and wind	Q
And kind to kind	Q
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Nor less the eternal poles	K
Of tendency distribute souls	K
There need no vows to bind	Q
Whom not each other seek but find	Q
They give and take no pledge or oath	A3
Nature is the bond of both	A3
No prayer persuades no flattery fawns	K
Their noble meanings are their pawns	K
Plain and cold is their address	K
Power have they for tenderness	K
And so thoroughly is known	J2
Each other's counsel by his own	J2
They can parley without meeting	U
Need is none of forms of greeting	U
They can well communicate	Q
In their innermost estate	Q
When each the other shall avoid	Q
Shall each by each be most enjoyed	Q
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Not with scarfs or perfumed gloves	K
Do these celebrate their loves	K
Not by jewels feasts and savors	K
Not by ribbons or by favors	K
But by the sun spark on the sea	K
And the cloud shadow on the lea	K
The soothing lapse of morn to mirk	U
And the cheerful round of work	U
Their cords of love so public are	T
They intertwine the farthest star	T
The throbbing sea the quaking earth	O2
Yield sympathy and signs of mirth	O2
Is none so high so mean is none	J2
But feels and seals this union	J2
Even the fell Furies are appeased	Q
The good applaud the lost are eased	Q
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Love's hearts are faithful but not fond	Q
Bound for the just but not beyond	Q
Not glad as the low loving herd	Q
Of self in other still preferred	Q
But they have heartily designed	Q
The benefit of broad mankind	Q
And they serve men austerely	K
After their own genius clearly	K
Without a false humility	K
For this is Love's nobility	K
Not to scatter bread and gold	Q
Goods and raiment bought and sold	Q
But to hold fast his simple sense	K
And speak the speech of innocence	K
And with hand and body and blood	Q
To make his bosom counsel good	Q
He that feeds men serveth few	A
He serves all who dares be true	A

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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