Ourselves Were Wed One Summer Dear
poem 631
Ourselves Were Wed One Summer Dear - meaning Summary
Shared Summer, Divergent Lives
The poem recalls a brief, intense summer union in which two women were "wed" and briefly shared sovereignty. One partner’s life and vitality ended sooner, and the speaker likewise diminished. The speaker contrasts their divergent futures and settings—one with a sunny cottage and early bloom, the other with distant oceans and frost—yet insists they were both queens for that summer, though crowned at different times.
Read Complete AnalysesOurselves were wed one summer dear Your Vision was in June And when Your little Lifetime failed, I wearied too of mine And overtaken in the Dark Where You had put me down By Some one carrying a Light I too received the Sign. ‘Tis true Our Futures different lay Your Cottage faced the sun While Oceans and the North must be On every side of mine ‘Tis true, Your Garden led the Bloom, For mine in Frosts was sown And yet, one Summer, we were Queens But You were crowned in June
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