Penny Dreadfuls, 1812 · page 143 of 258
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# Page Analysis This is a text page from a Victorian serialized work presenting **Canto VI**, a lengthy poetic passage in verse form. The poem romanticizes youth and love, contrasting the sweetness of youthful romantic pleasure—hearing "vows of love" in "roseate bowers"—with a deeper, more melancholic understanding of love's power over the soul. The verse suggests that those who experience love's "enchantment" in their sorrowful depths understand something inaccessible to carefree youth. The page contains no illustrations, advertisements, or identifying publication information—only running poetry in formal printed text.
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CANTO VI. WHEN pleasure sparkles in the cup of youth, And the gay hours on downy wing advance, Oh! then ’tis sweet to hear the lip of truth Breathe the soft vows of love, sweet to entrance The raptured soul by intermingling glance Of mutual bliss ; sweet amid roseate bowers, Led by the hand of Love, to weave the dance, Or unmolested crop life’s fairy flowers, Or bask in joy’s bright sun through calm unclouded hours. Yet they, who light of heart in may-day pride Meet love with smiles and gaily amorous song, (Though he their softest pleasures may provide, Even then when pleasures in full concert throng) They cannot know with what enchantment strong He steals. upon the tender suffering soul, What gently soothing charms to him belong, How melting sorrow owns his soft control, Subsiding passions hushed in milder waves to roll. omicloooks.conm