This Heart That Broke So Long
poem 145
This Heart That Broke So Long - meaning Summary
A Gift to the Dead
The short lyric presents a speaker offering the exhausted heart, weary feet, and disappointed faith as a gentle bequest to the dead. Images of a hound, a panting hare, and a schoolboy imply that neither pursuit nor crude curiosity can disturb what tenderness has built. The tone is resigned but protective: mourning takes the form of careful stewardship, preserving an inner life or affection that is now to be entrusted to death.
Read Complete AnalysesThis heart that broke so long These feet that never flagged This faith that watched for star in vain, Give gently to the dead Hound cannot overtake the Hare That fluttered panting, here Nor any schoolboy rob the nest Tenderness builded there.
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