If That High World
If That High World - meaning Summary
Love Beyond Mortal Death
Byron imagines death as a welcome passage where earthly love endures unchanged and lovers reunite in an eternal realm. The speaker comforts a beloved by portraying mortality as release rather than loss, stressing that fear of death stems from self-preservation, not from the bonds of affection. The poem reframes dying as a hopeful union—two souls becoming immortal together—turning fear into anticipation of shared eternity.
Read Complete AnalysesIf that high world, which lies beyond Our own, surviving Love endears; If there the cherish’d heart be fond, The eye the same, except in tears – How welcome those untrodden spheres! How sweet this very your to die! To soar from earth and find all fears Lost in thy light – Eternity! It must be so: ’tis not for self That we so tremble on the brink; And striving to o’erleap the gulf, Yet cling to Being’s severing link. Oh! in that future let us think To hold each heart the heart that shares; With them the immortal waters drink, And soul in soul grow deathless theirs
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