Woman’s Song
Woman’s Song - meaning Summary
Love Between Sleep and Day
A speaker addresses a beloved at dawn, urging them to wake and inhabit her as sunlight breaks. The poem frames waking as inevitable and painful: day severs night’s binding, and the speaker alternately loses and finds the beloved while recognizing external forces — death, duty, desire — will claim them. It combines erotic intimacy with acceptance of separation, exploring how love contends with time, bodily limits, and mortality.
Read Complete AnalysesO move in me, my darling, for now the sun must rise; the sun that will draw open the lips upon your eyes. O wake in me, my darling. The knife of day is bright to cut the thread that binds you within the flesh of night. Today I lose and find you whom yet my blood would keep – would weave and sing around you the spells and songs of sleep. None but I shall know you as none but I have known; yet there’s a death and maiden who wait for you alone; So move in me, my darling, whose debt I cannot pay. Pain and the dark must claim you, and passion and the day.
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