Brink of Eternity
Brink of Eternity - meaning Summary
Yearning Toward Spiritual Reunion
The speaker begins with a private, earthly search for a lost beloved, failing to find her in a limited home. This absence prompts a turn outward and upward toward the divine "mansion," where the speaker stands at the brink of eternity. The poem moves from personal loss to spiritual yearning, asking to be immersed in the infinite so that the lost touch and hope might be restored within cosmic fullness.
Read Complete AnalysesIn desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have to come to thy door. I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy face. I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish — no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe.
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