Horae Beatae Inscripto
Horae Beatae Inscripto - meaning Summary
Memory of Shared Beauty
The speaker imagines how present beauty and shared hours will return in memory when they are far away or elderly. The poem registers an urgent, almost fearful anticipation of recollection: beauty will "engulf" the mind, and past moments with a beloved will wash over them like a luminous tide. It presents memory as powerful, inevitable, and emotionally overwhelming, linking transience with the future intensity of remembrance.
Read Complete AnalysesHow will this beauty, when I am far hence, Sweep back upon me and engulf my mind! How will these hours, when we twain are gray, Turned in their sapphire tide, come flooding o'er us!
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