Come, My Celia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLM NOPP QQRR SSEE TTUU VWXX UU| Come my Celia let us prove | A |
| While we may how wise is love | B |
| Love grown old and grey with years | C |
| Love whose blood is thinned with tears | D |
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| Philosophic lover I | E |
| Broke my heart its love run dry | E |
| And I warble passion's words | F |
| But to hear them sing like birds | F |
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| When the lightning struck my side | G |
| Love shrieked and for ever died | G |
| Leaving nought of him behind | H |
| But these playthings of the mind | H |
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| Now the real play is over | I |
| I can only act a lover | I |
| Now the mimic play begins | J |
| With its puppet joys and sins | J |
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| When the heart no longer feels | K |
| And the blood with caution steals | K |
| Then ah then my heart forgive | L |
| Then we dare begin to live | M |
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| Dipped in Stygian waves of pain | N |
| We can never feel again | O |
| Time may hurl his deadliest darts | P |
| Love may practise all his arts | P |
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| Like some Balder lo we stand | Q |
| Safe 'mid hurtling spear and brand | Q |
| Only Death ah sweet Death throw | R |
| Holds the fatal mistletoe | R |
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| Let the young unconquered soul | S |
| Love the unit as the whole | S |
| Let the young uncheated eye | E |
| Love the face fore doomed to die | E |
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| But my Celia not for us | T |
| Pleasures half so hazardous | T |
| Let us set our hearts on play | U |
| 'Tis alas the only way | U |
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| Make of life the jest it is | V |
| Laugh and fool and maybe kiss | W |
| Never for a moment dear | X |
| Love so well to risk a fear | X |
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| Is not this my Celia say | U |
| The only wise and weary way | U |
Richard Le Gallienne
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