The House of Splendour
The House of Splendour - meaning Summary
A Radiant Otherworldly House
The poem describes an otherworldly house belonging to Evanoe, a radiant, golden realm woven like fabric and studded with gems. The speaker witnesses a luminous lady there, whose presence and virtues suffuse the place with transforming light. His devoted admiration grants him access and seems to dissolve ordinary, temporal boundaries. The poem registers a mystical encounter in which love or sacred reverence reveals a transcendent, timeless space.
Read Complete Analyses‘Tis Evanoe's, A house not made with hands, But out somewhere beyond the worldly ways Her gold is spread, above, around, inwoven; Strange ways and walls are fashioned out of it. And I have seen my Lady in the sun, Her hair was spread about, a sheaf of wings, And red the sunlight was, behind it all. And I have seen her there within her house, With six great sapphires hung along the wall, Low, panel-shaped, a-level with her knees, All her robe was woven of pale gold. There are there many rooms and all of gold, Of woven walls deep patterned, of email, Of beaten work; and through the claret stone, Set to some weaving, comes the aureate light. Here am I come perforce my love of her, Behold mine adoration Maketh me clear, and there are powers in this Which, played on by the virtues of her soul, Break down the four-square walls of standing time.
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