The Vigil Of Venus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCDEEDDDDFFAA GGHHDDAA IIDDDDJJDDKKDDLLMMNN KKOODDAA PQIRSSTTDDAA DDUGVVDDPPQQDDWWEEAA XXYYDDZZA2A2DDB2B2DD AA MMB2B2XXC2C2DDJDD2D2 AA AAE2E2F2G2MMH2H2AA DDLLI2I2HHAA DDMVXXTTEEJ2J2AAK2K2 TTL2L2JJE2E2AALet those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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The Spring the new the warb'ling Spring appears | B |
The youthful Season of reviving Years | B |
In Spring the Loves enkindle mutual Heats | C |
The feather'd Nation chuse their tuneful Mates | D |
The Trees grow fruitful with descending Rain | E |
And drest in diff'ring Greens adorn the Plain | E |
She comes to morrow Beauty's Empress roves | D |
Thro' Walks that winding run within the Groves | D |
She twines the shooting Myrtle into Bow'rs | D |
And ties their meeting Tops with Wreaths of Flow'rs | D |
Then rais'd sublimely on her easy Throne | F |
From Nature's pow'rful Dictates draws her own | F |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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'Twas on that Day which saw the teeming Flood | G |
Swell round impregnate with celestial Blood | G |
Wand'ring in Circles stood the finny Crew | H |
The midst was left a void Expanse of Blue | H |
There Parent Ocean work'd with heaving Throes | D |
And dropping wet the fair Dione rose | D |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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She paints the purple Year with vary'd show | I |
Tips the green Gem and makes the Blossom glow | I |
She makes the turgid Buds receive the Breeze | D |
Expand to Leaves and shade the naked Trees | D |
When gath'ring damps the misty Nights diffuse | D |
She sprinkles all the Morn with balmy Dews | D |
Bright trembling Pearls depend at ev'ry spray | J |
And kept from falling seem to fall away | J |
A glossy Freshness hence the Rose receives | D |
And blushes sweet through all her silken Leaves | D |
The Drops descending through the silent Night | K |
While Stars serenely roll their golden Light | K |
Close 'till the Morn her humid Veil she holds | D |
Then deckt with Virgin Pomp the Flow'r unfolds | D |
Soon will the Morning blush Ye Maids prepare | L |
In rosy Garlands bind your flowing Hair | L |
'Tis Venus' Plant The Blood fair Venus shed | M |
O'er the gay Beauty pour'd immortal Red | M |
From Love's soft Kiss a sweet Ambrosial Smell | N |
Was taught for ever on the Leaves to dwell | N |
From Gemms from Flames from orient Rays of Light | K |
The richest Lustre makes her Purple bright | K |
And she to morrow weds the sporting Gale | O |
Unties her Zone she bursts the verdant Veil | O |
Thro' all her Sweets the rifling Lover flies | D |
And as he breaths her glowing Fires arise | D |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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Now fair Dione to the Myrtle Grove | P |
Sends the gay Nymphs and sends her tender Love | Q |
And shall they venture is it safe to go | I |
While Nymphs have Hearts and Cupid wears a Bow | R |
Yes safely venture 'tis his Mother's Will | S |
He walks unarm'd and undesigning ill | S |
His Torch extinct his Quiver useless hung | T |
His Arrows idle and his Bow unstrung | T |
And yet ye Nymphs beware his Eyes have Charms | D |
And Love that's naked still is Love in Arms | D |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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From Venus Bow'r to Delia's Lodge repairs | D |
A Virgin Train compleat with modest Airs | D |
Chast Delia grant our Suit or shun the Wood | U |
Nor stain this sacred Lawn with savage Blood | G |
Venis O Delia if she cou'd persuade | V |
Wou'd ask thy Presence might she ask a Maid | V |
Here chearful Quires for three auspicious Nights | D |
With Songs prolong the pleasurable Rites | D |
Here Crouds in Measures lightly decent rove | P |
Or seek by Pairs the Covert of the Grove | P |
Where meeting Greens for Arbours arch above | Q |
And mingling Flowrets strow the Scenes of Love | Q |
Here dancing Ceres shakes her golden Sheaves | D |
Here Bacchus revels deckt with viny Leaves | D |
Here Wit's enchanting God in Lawrel crown'd | W |
Wakes all the ravish'd Hours with silver Sound | W |
Ye Fields ye Forests own Dione's Reign | E |
And Delia Huntress Delia shun the Plain | E |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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Gay with the Bloom of all her opening Year | X |
The Queen at Hybla bids her Throne appear | X |
And there presides and there the fav'rite Band | Y |
Her smiling Graces share the great Command | Y |
Now beauteous Hybla dress thy flow'ry Beds | D |
With all the Pride the lavish Season sheds | D |
Now all thy Colours all thy Fragrance yield | Z |
And rival Enna's Aromatick Field | Z |
To fill the Presence of the gentle Court | A2 |
From ev'ry Quarter rural Nymphs resort | A2 |
From Woods from Mountains from their humble Vales | D |
From Waters curling with the wanton Gales | D |
Pleas'd with the joyful Train the laughing Queen | B2 |
In Circles seats them round the Bank of green | B2 |
And 'lovely Girls she whispers guard your Hearts | D |
My Boy tho' stript of Arms abounds in Arts | D |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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Let tender Grass in shaded Allys spread | M |
Let early Flow'rs erect their painted Head | M |
To morrow's Glory be to morrow seen | B2 |
That Day old Ether wedded Earth in green | B2 |
The Vernal Father bid the Spring appear | X |
In Clouds he coupled to produce the Year | X |
The Sap descending o'er her Bosom ran | C2 |
And all the various sorts of Soul began | C2 |
By Wheels unknown to Sight by secret Veins | D |
Distilling Life the fruitful Goddess reigns | D |
Through all the lovely Realms of native Day | J |
Through all the circled Land and circling Sea | D |
With fertil Seed she fill'd the pervious Earth | D2 |
And ever fix'd the mystick Ways of Birth | D2 |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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'Twas she the Parent to the Latian Shore | A |
Through various Dangers Troy's Remainder bore | A |
She won Lavinia for her warlike Son | E2 |
And winning her the Latian Empire won | E2 |
She gave to Mars the Maid whose honour'd Womb | F2 |
Swell'd with the Founder of immortal Rome | G2 |
Decoy'd by Shows the Sabin Dames she led | M |
And taught our vig'rous Youth the Means to wed | M |
Hence sprung the Romans hence the Race divine | H2 |
Thro' which great C sar draws his Julian Line | H2 |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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In rural Seats the Soul of Pleasure reigns | D |
The Life of Beauty fills the rural Scenes | D |
Ev'n Love if Fame the Truth of Love declare | L |
Drew first the breathings of a rural Air | L |
Some pleasing Meadow pregnant Beauty prest | I2 |
She laid her Infant on its flow'ry Breast | I2 |
From Nature's Sweets he sipp'd the fragrant Dew | H |
He smil'd he kiss'd them and by kissing grew | H |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
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Now Bulls o'er Stalks of Broom extend their Sides | D |
Secure of Favours from their lowing Brides | D |
Now stately Rams their fleecy Consorts lead | M |
Who bleating follow thro' the wand'ring Shade | V |
And now the Goddess bids the Birds appear | X |
Raise all their Musick and salute the Year | X |
Then deep the Swan begins and deep the Song | T |
Runs o'er the Water where he sails along | T |
While Philomela tunes a treble Strain | E |
And from the Poplar charms the list'ning Plain | E |
We fancy Love exprest at ev'ry Note | J2 |
It melts it warbles in her liquid Throat | J2 |
Of barb'rous Tereus she complains no more | A |
But sings for Pleasure as for Grief before | A |
And still her Graces rise her Airs extend | K2 |
And all is Silence 'till the Syren end | K2 |
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How long in coming is my lovely Spring | T |
And when shall I and when the Swallow sing | T |
Sweet Philomela cease Or here I sit | L2 |
And silent lose my rapt'rous Hour of Wit | L2 |
'Tis gone the Fit retires the Flames decay | J |
My tuneful Ph bus flies averse away | J |
His own Amycle thus as Stories run | E2 |
But once was silent and that once undone | E2 |
Let those love now who never lov'd before | A |
Let those who always lov'd now love the more | A |
Thomas Parnell
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