For Ever
For Ever - meaning Summary
Beloved as Complete Bliss
The speaker praises a beloved who embodies the highest kinds of happiness: heavenly rapture, the steady harmony of truth, trustful friendship, and the solitary light that inspires thought and poetic vision. These qualities, usually separate ideals, are united in her. In the speaker's best hours he discovers them all in her and claims them, experiencing intense personal bliss as a result.
Read Complete AnalysesThe happiness that man, whilst prison'd here, Is wont with heavenly rapture to compare,-- The harmony of Truth, from wavering clear,-- Of Friendship that is free from doubting care,-- The light which in stray thoughts alone can cheer The wise,--the bard alone in visions fair,-- In my best hours I found in her all this, And made mine own, to mine exceeding bliss.
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