For This Accepted Breath
poem 195
For This Accepted Breath - meaning Summary
Sovereignty Through Breath
The poem claims a personal, spiritual sovereignty grounded in a simple, life-giving breath. The speaker treats breath as a protective crown that death cannot touch and as proof of divine favor that banishes desolation and fear. Joy and constancy follow this presence, likened to an eternal June. The speaker asks heavenly messengers to attest that this humble, inward experience is worthy of royal recognition and sacred praise.
Read Complete AnalysesFor this accepted Breath Through it compete with Death The fellow cannot touch this Crown By it my title take Ah, what a royal sake To my necessity stooped down! No Wilderness can be Where this attendeth me No Desert Noon No fear of frost to come Haunt the perennial bloom But Certain June! Get Gabriel to tell the royal syllable Get Saints with new unsteady tongue To say what trance below Most like their glory show Fittest the Crown!
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