Maud - Part 1 - 9.
Maud - Part 1 - 9. - context Summary
Published in 1855
This excerpt from Part 1 of Maud was first published in the 1855 collection Maud, and Other Poems. The stanza pictures a narrator who watches a woman ride away across a moor, the vision melting into darkness and loss. The poem, composed amid Tennyson's preoccupations with romantic longing and bereavement, channels personal feeling—including echoes of Arthur Hallam’s death—into public publication in mid-19th-century England.
Read Complete AnalysesI was walking a mile, More than a mile from the shore, The sun look'd out with a smile Betwixt the cloud and the moor, And riding at set of day Over the dark moor land, Rapidly riding far away, She waved to me with her hand. There were two at her side, Something flash' d in the sun, Down by the hill I saw them ride, In a moment they were gone: Like a sudden spark Struck vainly in the night, And back returns the dark With no more hope of light.
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