I Make His Crescent Fill or Lack
poem 909
I Make His Crescent Fill or Lack - meaning Summary
Power and Mutual Uncertainty
The speaker claims intimate power over a lover’s visible states, saying she can make his "Crescent fill or lack" and control when he appears or hides. Images of celestial motion and weather convey influence and intimacy, but the concluding stanza reverses certainty: both partners share a mutual boundary and face the same day, so authority between them is ambiguous. The poem explores shifting control and reciprocal dependence in a relationship.
Read Complete AnalysesI make His Crescent fill or lack His Nature is at Full Or Quarter as I signify His Tides do I control He holds superior in the Sky Or gropes, at my Command Behind inferior Clouds or round A Mist’s slow Colonnade But since We hold a Mutual Disc And front a Mutual Day Which is the Despot, neither knows Nor Whose the Tyranny
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