Maud - Part 1 - 21.
Maud - Part 1 - 21. - fact Summary
Published in 1855 Collection
This short section from Maud presents a rivulet bearing a garden rose as a messenger from Maud to the speaker. The image conveys longing and a hopeful, intimate communication delivered through nature. It frames romantic desire as both delicate and insistently present, suggesting the speaker reads the rose as evidence of Maud’s intent and affection. The passage fits the poem’s broader themes of love and memory.
Read Complete AnalysesRivulet crossing my ground, And bringing me down from the Hall This garden-rose that I found, Forgetful of Maud and me, And lost in trouble and moving round Here at the head of a tinkling fall, And trying to pass to the sea; Rivulet, born at the Hall, My Maud has sent it by thee (If I read her sweet will right) On a blushing mission to me, Saying in odour and colour, 'Ah, be Among the roses to-night.'
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