{"id":1332,"date":"2012-07-29T00:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T00:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2014-12-09T00:55:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:55:02","slug":"the-courtly-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-courtly-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courtly Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Courtly Lovers - A love poem (Lady of the Sweetest Smile Series)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7p5W7dEJDk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile<br \/>\nWrought tears from my heart, not blood:<br \/>\nFrom me she has flown, from afar loved unknown<br \/>\nA love unspoken, perhaps understood?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I adore thee, as Dante did Beatrice<br \/>\nThough saw you more than twice did I<br \/>\nWe danced &#8211; danced but once together<br \/>\nWe parted &#8211; the years pass slowly by.<\/p>\n<p>No virtue caused my love to be spurned<br \/>\nA lady cannot spurn a love unspoken<br \/>\nIt still stirs in my heart from time to time<br \/>\nThe aching her Helen smile had awoken.<\/p>\n<p>And from time to time, when to my eyes<br \/>\nThe tears are held with blinking gaze<br \/>\nI shall remember the sweetness, the smile<br \/>\nAnd regret not stating love till the end of days.<\/p>\n<p>I did for her no brave deeds<br \/>\nAs knights did in days of old<br \/>\nIndeed I was not so brave of my love to speak<br \/>\nAnd my affections remained untold<\/p>\n<p>Yet with each and every verse<br \/>\nMy love for her I to the world declare<br \/>\nThat is Gold, and that is Empty<br \/>\nShe is but a fleeting vision fleeted from there<\/p>\n<p>In my arms, where once we danced<br \/>\nAnd in the flittering drizzle we departed<br \/>\nShe to a future new and bright<br \/>\nI to my apartment heavy hearted.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that dance, was consummation<br \/>\nOf a love, a desire, never explored<br \/>\nI, a courtly lover, she a courtly maiden<br \/>\nShe was the Beatrice that I adored.<\/p>\n<p>We progressed, though we were never we<br \/>\nTo abandonment, driven by the winds of life<br \/>\nKisses never offered, but a dance the embrace<br \/>\nLucky is he to have her as his wife<\/p>\n<p>Should she be so, for to be braver than I<br \/>\nAnd accept kisses as a lover should<br \/>\nAs reward from the basic bravery of man<br \/>\nTo state his love for her like I never could.<\/p>\n<p>I a knight errant in my own mind<br \/>\nRode for two on an Aran lane<br \/>\nUnknown by her who sought to ride<br \/>\nAnd spoke to a faltering man of the same<\/p>\n<p>She was on my mind as Atlantic waters<br \/>\nSprayed a bitter salt onto my lips<br \/>\nDriven by a wind strong the breaking waves<br \/>\nTo a fountain of spray the weather whips<\/p>\n<p>Matching my emotions as of her I think<br \/>\nAs I steer steed away from the beach<br \/>\nHard is life, and always the hardest<br \/>\nAre the lessons of Love that time does teach.<\/p>\n<address>&#8211; Beatrice &#8211; the muse of Dant\u00c3\u00a9, with whom he fell in love on seeing twice.<br \/>\n&#8211; Helen smile &#8211; Helen of Troy, whose smile launched a thousand ships&#8221;<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile Wrought tears from my heart, not blood: From me she has flown, from afar loved unknown A love unspoken, perhaps understood? Yes, I adore thee, as Dante did Beatrice Though saw you more than twice did I We danced &#8211; danced but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1179,724,145,198,15,6],"tags":[1049,1076,18,606,17,526],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affairs-of-the-heart-video-poetry","category-heartbreak-poems","category-love-poems","category-sweetest-smile-poems","category-sweetest-smile-videopoems","category-video-poetry","tag-cinepoem","tag-film-poem","tag-love-poem","tag-poetry","tag-unrequited-love","tag-video-poem","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-lu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":516,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lettera-damore\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":0},"title":"Lettera D&#8217;amore","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th February 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U2Fy205gTsk Cara mia, ti voglio bene... \"My darling, I love you The words to her I wanted to say But I never did, and so I regret that And I will until my dying day. 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