The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CXIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
A LATER DEDICATION
To her the sweetest, fairest, worthiest one,
Who the inspirer is of my new praise,
Whom lately once, one Autumn afternoon,
I walked with nor told aught a lover says,
And yet who knows I love her in all ways
A maiden dreams: the suppliant at her throne,
The counsellor of strength, the lord of lays
Loyal to chastity and her alone,
These rhymes I dedicate. Oh, if there be
Still in this world of vanished creeds and kings
Some faith in royal blood and right divine,
Some lingering reverence paid to majesty,
Here seek it and here find it, for it clings
To each hushed verse like incense to a shrine.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A ABXXBCBCDEFDEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
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