Pastiche

Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)



I.

LOVE, oh, Love's a dainty sweeting,
Wooing now, and now retreating;
Brightest joy and blackest care,
Swift as light, and light as air.

II.

Would you seize and fix and capture
All his evanescent rapture?
Bind him fast with golden curls,
Fetter with a chain of pearls?

III.

Would you catch him in a net,
Like a white moth prankt with jet?
Clutch him, and his bloomy wing
Turns a dead, discoloured thing!

IV.

Pluck him like a rosebud red,
And he leaves a thorn instead;
Let him go without a care,
And he follows unaware.

V.

Love, oh Love's a dainty sweeting,
Wooing now, and now retreating;
Lightly come, and lightly gone,
Lost when most securely won!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAbb ccdd eeaa ffbb AAxx
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 654
Words 121
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Mathilde Blind

Mathilde Blind, was a German-born British poet. Her work was praised by Matthew Arnold and French politician and historian Louis Blanc. more…

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