The Lovely Night
The Lovely Night - meaning Summary
Summer Night and Longing
Speaker leaves a hut to move quietly through moonlit trees, attending to sensory details—moon, breeze, bowing birches—that create a fragrant, cool summer night. Nature fills the soul with happiness and a near-overwhelming sense of bliss. Yet the speaker’s deepest feeling is longing: even a thousand such perfect nights would be outweighed by a single night spent with the beloved, placing human love above natural wonder.
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