To F.
To F. - fact Summary
Dedicated to Frances S. Osgood
This short lyric addresses a beloved whose memory comforts the speaker amid a bleak, troubled life. The beloved’s image becomes an "enchanted far-off isle" offering calm and repose while surrounding waters remain stormy. The poem frames love and memory as refuge rather than worldly happiness, emphasizing inner consolation and imaginative escape. Its direct address creates intimacy and steadiness against external turmoil.
Read Complete AnalysesBeloved! amid the earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path- (Drear path, alas! where grows Not even one lonely rose)- My soul at least a solace hath In dreams of thee, and therein knows An Eden of bland repose. And thus thy memory is to me Like some enchanted far-off isle In some tumultuous sea- Some ocean throbbing far and free With storms- but where meanwhile Serenest skies continually Just o’er that one bright island smile.
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