Summer for Thee, Grant I May Be

Summer for Thee, Grant I May Be - meaning Summary

Summer as Self-offering

The speaker offers themselves as a perpetual summer for a beloved, asking to remain a source of warmth and music after the season ends. With images of birds falling silent, the speaker promises to bypass death and continue blooming, sending blossoms like a boatful of flowers. The final plea to be gathered as an anemone frames this self-offering as both intimate and natural: a wish to persist in the beloved’s life as a living, floral presence rather than a remembered absence.