Beauty, Time, And Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDBDEBEBFF A GHGHIJIKIIIILM A NBNBBHBHHIHIOO K ILIPQRQRCSCSII C TUVWXIXIIYIZA2A2 K B2C2D2C2IBIBBIBIPM K IIIIIE2IE2F2G2F2G2BB

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Fair is my Love and cruel as she 's fairB
Her brow shades frown although her eyes are sunnyC
Her smiles are lightning though her pride despairB
And her disdains are gall her favours honeyC
A modest maid deck'd with a blush of honourB
Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and loveD
The wonder of all eyes that look upon herB
Sacred on earth design'd a Saint aboveD
Chastity and Beauty which were deadly foesE
Live reconcil egrave d friends within her browB
And had she Pity to conjoin with thoseE
Then who had heard the plaints I utter nowB
For had she not been fair and thus unkindF
My Muse had slept and none had known my mindF
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My spotless love hovers with purest wingsG
About the temple of the proudest frameH
Where blaze those lights fairest of earthly thingsG
Which clear our clouded world with brightest flameH
My ambitious thoughts confin egrave d in her faceI
Affect no honour but what she can giveJ
My hopes do rest in limits of her graceI
I weigh no comfort unless she relieveK
For she that can my heart imparadiseI
Holds in her fairest hand what dearest isI
My Fortune's wheel 's the circle of her eyesI
Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of blissI
All my life's sweet consists in her aloneL
So much I love the most Unloving oneM
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And yet I cannot reprehend the flightN
Or blame th' attempt presuming so to soarB
The mounting venture for a high delightN
Did make the honour of the fall the moreB
For who gets wealth that puts not from the shoreB
Danger hath honour great designs their fameH
Glory doth follow courage goes beforeB
And though th' event oft answers not the sameH
Suffice that high attempts have never shameH
The mean observer whom base safety keepsI
Lives without honour dies without a nameH
And in eternal darkness ever sleepsI
And therefore Delia 'tis to me no blotO
To have attempted tho' attain'd thee notO
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IVK
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When men shall find thy flow'r thy glory passI
And thou with careful brow sitting aloneL
Receiv egrave d hast this message from thy glassI
That tells the truth and says that All is goneP
Fresh shalt thou see in me the wounds thou mad'stQ
Though spent thy flame in me the heat remainingR
I that have loved thee thus before thou fad'stQ
My faith shall wax when thou art in thy waningR
The world shall find this miracle in meC
That fire can burn when all the matter 's spentS
Then what my faith hath been thyself shalt seeC
And that thou wast unkind thou may'st repentS
Thou may'st repent that thou hast scorn'd my tearsI
When Winter snows upon thy sable hairsI
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Beauty sweet Love is like the morning dewT
Whose short refresh upon the tender greenU
Cheers for a time but till the sun doth showV
And straight 'tis gone as it had never beenW
Soon doth it fade that makes the fairest flourishX
Short is the glory of the blushing roseI
The hue which thou so carefully dost nourishX
Yet which at length thou must be forced to loseI
When thou surcharged with burthen of thy yearsI
Shalt bend thy wrinkles homeward to the earthY
And that in Beauty's Lease expired appearsI
The Date of Age the Calends of our DeathZ
But ah no more this must not be foretoldA2
For women grieve to think they must be oldA2
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VIK
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I must not grieve my Love whose eyes would readB2
Lines of delight whereon her youth might smileC2
Flowers have time before they come to seedD2
And she is young and now must sport the whileC2
And sport Sweet Maid in season of these yearsI
And learn to gather flowers before they witherB
And where the sweetest blossom first appearsI
Let Love and Youth conduct thy pleasures thitherB
Lighten forth smiles to clear the clouded airB
And calm the tempest which my sighs do raiseI
Pity and smiles do best become the fairB
Pity and smiles must only yield thee praiseI
Make me to say when all my griefs are goneP
Happy the heart that sighed for such a oneM
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Let others sing of Knights and PaladinesI
In ag egrave d accents and untimely wordsI
Paint shadows in imaginary linesI
Which well the reach of their high wit recordsI
But I must sing of thee and those fair eyesI
Authentic shall my verse in time to comeE2
When yet th' unborn shall say Lo where she liesI
Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumbE2
These are the arcs the trophies I erectF2
That fortify thy name against old ageG2
And these thy sacred virtues must protectF2
Against the Dark and Time's consuming rageG2
Though th' error of my youth in them appearB
Suffice they show I lived and loved thee dearB

Samuel Daniel



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