The Gardener 27: Trust Love Even If It Brings Sorrow
The Gardener 27: Trust Love Even If It Brings Sorrow - meaning Summary
Embrace Love Despite Sorrow
The poem presents a speaker urging trust in love even when it causes sorrow, arguing that the heart exists to give and that sorrow makes love deep and lasting. A repeated refrain, "Ah no, my friend, your words are dark, I cannot understand them," shows a resistant interlocutor who prefers to avoid that view. Natural images—dewdrop and lotus—contrast fleeting pleasure with sorrow’s persistent, formative power in love.
Read Complete Analyses"Trust love even if it brings sorrow. Do not close up your heart." "Ah no, my friend, your words are dark, I cannot understand them." "The heart is only for giving away with a tear and a song, my love." "Ah no, my friend, your words are dark, I cannot understand them." "Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes." "Ah no, my friend, your words are dark, I cannot understand them." "The lotus blooms in the sight of the sun, and loses all that it has. It would not remain in bud in the eternal winter mist." "Ah no, my friend, your words are dark, I cannot understand them."
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