An Inscription
An Inscription - meaning Summary
A Book Sent to a Singer
The speaker addresses a small book as a messenger, asking it to go to a distant singer who once celebrated an idealized "Golden Girl." The poem suggests that the book might carry that same beauty and movement, implying that written art can summon or preserve the living presence of poetic subjects. It frames poetry as transmission: a means by which past songs and images may be revived for their original creator.
Read Complete AnalysesGo little book, To him who, on a lute with horns of pearl, Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl: And bid him look Into thy pages: it may hap that he May find that golden maidens dance through thee.
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