All in Green
All in Green - meaning Summary
Love as Hunt
The poem presents a single image: the speaker’s beloved rides all in green on a golden horse into a silver dawn, accompanied by four hounds and successive herds of deer. Repetitive stanzas stage a ritual hunt that grows more intense and mythic, shifting from pastoral motion to an ominous crescendo. The closing line reframes the scene as emotional loss: the hunt’s triumph is the speaker’s heart laid dead before the pursuing pack, equating love with death.
Read Complete AnalysesAll in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling the merry deer ran before. Fleeter be they than dappled dreams the swift red deer the red rare deer. Four red roebuck at a white water the cruel bugle sang before. Horn at hip went my love riding riding the echo down into the silver dawn. Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling the level meadows ran before. Softer be they than slippered sleep the lean lithe deer the fleet flown deer. Four fleet does at a gold valley the famished arrow sang before. Bow at belt went my love riding riding the mountain down into the silver dawn. Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling the sheer peaks ran before. Paler be they than daunting death the sleek slim deer the tall tense deer. Four tall stags at the green mountain the lucky hunter sang before. All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling my heart fell dead before.
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