Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HUELESS LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto that love must we through fire attain Last Line: And one passed out, and one the bell-head hung. Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love | ||||||||
UNTO that love must we through fire attain, Which those two held as breath of common air; The hands of whom were given in bond elsewhere; Whom Honour was untroubled to restrain. Midway the road of our life's term they met, And one another knew without surprise; Nor cared that beauty stood in mutual eyes; Nor at their tardy meeting nursed regret. To them it was revealed how they had found The kindred nature and the needed mind; The mate by long conspiracy designed; The flower to plant in sanctuary ground. Avowed in vigilant solicitude For either, what most lived within each breast They let be seen: yet every human test Demanding righteousness approved them good. She leaned on a strong arm, and little feared Abandonment to help if heaved or sank Her heart at intervals while Love looked blank, Life rosier were she but less revered. An arm that never shook did not obscure Her woman's intuition of the bliss -- Their tempter's moment o'er the black abyss, Across the narrow plank -- he could abjure. Then came a day that clipped for him the thread, And their first touch of lips, as he lay cold, Was all of earthly in their love untold, Beyond all earthly known to them who wed. So has there come the gust at South-west flung By sudden volt on eves of freezing mist, When sister snowflake sister snowdrop kissed, And one passed out, and one the bell-head hung. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY WIFE by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP by MARGARET ATWOOD IN THE MONTH OF MAY by ROBERT BLY DIRGE IN WOODS by GEORGE MEREDITH |
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