I Ment to Find Her When I Came;
I Ment to Find Her When I Came; - meaning Summary
Grief and Missed Encounter
The speaker planned to find a woman and finally confess long-held longing, but death reached her first. The poem frames the speaker’s regret: his intended meeting becomes impossible because she listened to death instead of him. Bereft, he wanders with memory as his companion and cannot rest. Resting is presented as an almost impossible relief, a distant privilege denied by loss and sustained yearning.
Read Complete AnalysesI meant to find her when I came; Death had the same design; But the success was his, it seems, And the discomfit mine. I meant to tell her how I longed For just this single time; But Death had told her so the first, And she had hearkened him. To wander now is my abode; To rest,–to rest would be A privilege of hurricane To memory and me.
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