Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDAEEFFGGHIJJKK LLJJJJMMJNJNKKKKOOPP JJJJQRSTKKJUKCCJVVJK KWWJJJJJJJJJOOKKJJJJ JCJCXXWWSTKVKJJYHZHZ JJJJOKKJKJKKJKKJJKJJ KJJK| LO here a little volume but great Book | A |
| A nest of new born sweets | B |
| Whose native fires disdaining | C |
| To ly thus folded and complaining | C |
| Of these ignoble sheets | B |
| Affect more comly bands | D |
| Fair one from the kind hands | D |
| And confidently look | A |
| To find the rest | E |
| Of a rich binding in your Brest | E |
| It is in one choise handfull heavenn and all | F |
| Heavn s Royall host incamp t thus small | F |
| To prove that true schooles use to tell | G |
| Ten thousand Angels in one point can dwell | G |
| It is love s great artillery | H |
| Which here contracts itself and comes to ly | I |
| Close couch t in their white bosom and from thence | J |
| As from a snowy fortresse of defence | J |
| Against their ghostly foes to take their part | K |
| And fortify the hold of their chast heart | K |
| It is an armory of light | L |
| Let constant use but keep it bright | L |
| You l find it yeilds | J |
| To holy hands and humble hearts | J |
| More swords and sheilds | J |
| Then sin hath snares or Hell hath darts | J |
| Only be sure | M |
| The hands be pure | M |
| That hold these weapons and the eyes | J |
| Those of turtles chast and true | N |
| Wakefull and wise | J |
| Here is a freind shall fight for you | N |
| Hold but this book before their heart | K |
| Let prayer alone to play his part | K |
| But the heart | K |
| That studyes this high Art | K |
| Must be a sure house keeper | O |
| And yet no sleeper | O |
| Dear soul be strong | P |
| Mercy will come e re long | P |
| And bring his bosom fraught with blessings | J |
| Flowers of never fading graces | J |
| To make immortall dressings | J |
| For worthy soules whose wise embraces | J |
| Store up themselves for Him who is alone | Q |
| The Spouse of Virgins and the Virgin s son | R |
| But if the noble Bridegroom when he come | S |
| Shall find the loytering Heart from home | T |
| Leaving her chast aboad | K |
| To gadde abroad | K |
| Among the gay mates of the god of flyes | J |
| To take her pleasure and to play | U |
| And keep the devill s holyday | K |
| To dance th sunshine of some smiling | C |
| But beguiling | C |
| Spheares of sweet and sugred Lyes | J |
| Some slippery Pair | V |
| Of false perhaps as fair | V |
| Flattering but forswearing eyes | J |
| Doubtlesse some other heart | K |
| Will gett the start | K |
| Mean while and stepping in before | W |
| Will take possession of that sacred store | W |
| Of hidden sweets and holy ioyes | J |
| Words which are not heard with Eares | J |
| Those tumultuous shops of noise | J |
| Effectuall wispers whose still voice | J |
| The soul it selfe more feeles then heares | J |
| Amorous languishments luminous trances | J |
| Sights which are not seen with eyes | J |
| Spirituall and soul peircing glances | J |
| Whose pure and subtil lightning flyes | J |
| Home to the heart and setts the house on fire | O |
| And melts it down in sweet desire | O |
| Yet does not stay | K |
| To ask the windows leave to passe that way | K |
| Delicious Deaths soft exalations | J |
| Of soul dear and divine annihilations | J |
| A thousand unknown rites | J |
| Of ioyes and rarefy d delights | J |
| A hundred thousand goods glories and graces | J |
| And many a mystick thing | C |
| Which the divine embraces | J |
| Of the deare spouse of spirits with them will bring | C |
| For which it is no shame | X |
| That dull mortality must not know a name | X |
| Of all this store | W |
| Of blessings and ten thousand more | W |
| If when he come | S |
| He find the Heart from home | T |
| Doubtlesse he will unload | K |
| Himself some other where | V |
| And poure abroad | K |
| His pretious sweets | J |
| On the fair soul whom first he meets | J |
| O fair fortunate O riche dear | Y |
| O happy and thrice happy she | H |
| Selected dove | Z |
| Who ere she be | H |
| Whose early love | Z |
| With winged vowes | J |
| Makes hast to meet her morning spouse | J |
| And close with his immortall kisses | J |
| Happy indeed who never misses | J |
| To improve that pretious hour | O |
| And every day | K |
| Seize her sweet prey | K |
| All fresh and fragrant as he rises | J |
| Dropping with a baulmy Showr | K |
| A delicious dew of spices | J |
| O let the blissfull heart hold fast | K |
| Her heavnly arm full she shall tast | K |
| At once ten thousand paradises | J |
| She shall have power | K |
| To rifle and deflour | K |
| The rich and roseall spring of those rare sweets | J |
| Which with a swelling bosome there she meets | J |
| Boundles and infinite | K |
| Bottomles treasures | J |
| Of pure inebriating pleasures | J |
| Happy proof she shal discover | K |
| What ioy what blisse | J |
| How many Heav ns at once it is | J |
| To have her God become her Lover | K |
Richard Crashaw
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