To Love Thee Year by Year
poem 434
To Love Thee Year by Year - meaning Summary
Enduring Love Made Small
The speaker reflects on how steady, year-by-year love can seem diminished or like sacrifice. Doubting that the word forever captures devotion, the speaker chooses a modest, tangible gesture instead: assembling a token of care, symbolized by a flower. The poem presents endurance as expressed through small, deliberate acts rather than grand or abstract promises, suggesting love is shown in careful, crafted attention over time.
Read Complete AnalysesTo love thee Year by Year May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease However, dear, Forever might be short, I thought to show And so I pieced it, with a flower, now.
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