I Showed Her Heights She Never Saw
poem 446
I Showed Her Heights She Never Saw - meaning Summary
Guiding Beyond Another's Limits
The speaker recounts offering another person transcendence and intimacy—showing "Heights" and private "Secrets"—and inviting her to join. She hesitates and ultimately refuses. In response the speaker breaks their life and becomes a luminous presence for her benefit, but her withdrawal only enlarges that light. The poem explores gift, sacrifice, and the painful distance between offering transformation and the recipient 27s inability to accept it.
Read Complete AnalysesI showed her Heights she never saw Would’st Climb, I said? She said Not so With me I said With me? I showed her Secrets Morning’s Nest The Rope the Nights were put across And now Would’st have me for a Guest? She could not find her Yes And then, I brake my life And Lo, A Light, for her, did solemn glow, The larger, as her face withdrew And could she, further, No?
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