One Blessing Had I Than the Rest
poem 756
One Blessing Had I Than the Rest - meaning Summary
A Single Overwhelming Blessing
The speaker describes possessing one extraordinary blessing that outshone all others and became the center of dream and prayer. This singular joy banished need and fear, reordering her inner life so earthly and heavenly concerns faded. The intensity of that contentment borders on paralysis but also delivers finality: questions about why bliss is limited and why suffering persists fall away, and she stops speculating about divine distribution or fate.
Read Complete AnalysesOne Blessing had I than the rest So larger to my Eyes That I stopped gauging satisfied For this enchanted size It was the limit of my Dream The focus of my Prayer A perfect paralyzing Bliss Contented as Despair I knew no more of Want or Cold Phantasms both become For this new Value in the Soul Supremest Earthly Sum The Heaven below the Heaven above Obscured with ruddier Blue Life’s Latitudes leant over full The Judgment perished too Why Bliss so scantily disburse Why Paradise defer Why Floods be served to Us in Bowls I speculate no more
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