Erat Hora
Erat Hora - meaning Summary
A Brief, Cherished Hour
Pound presents a compact meditation on a fleeting moment of gratitude and parting. A brief encounter is likened to sunlight on flowers, abruptly shifted by wind. The speaker values that single sunlit hour as the highest possible thing, suggesting human experience can rival divine claims. The poem emphasizes transience, the decisive weight of a small grateful exchange, and the idea that presence makes an ordinary instant profound.
Read Complete Analyses‘Thank you, whatever comes.' And then she turned And, as the ray of sun on hanging flowers Fades when the wind hath lifted them aside, Went swiftly from me. Nay, whatever comes One hour was sunlit and the most high gods May not make boast of any better thing Than to have watched that hour as it passed.
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