The Gardener 30: You Are My Own
The Gardener 30: You Are My Own - meaning Summary
Possession in Dream-love
The speaker addresses an imagined beloved who exists chiefly in dreams. Repeating "You are my own," the poem stages a possessive, devotional attachment: the beloved is conjured as evening cloud, bearer of rosy feet and bitter-sweet lips, and finally ensnared in the speaker’s music. Pleasure and pain combine as the speaker claims this figure, suggesting an enduring, interiorized love that lives on in deathless dreaming.
Read Complete AnalysesYou are the evening cloud floating in the sky of my dreams. I paint you and fashion you ever with my love longings. You are my own, my own, Dweller in my endless dreams! Your feet are rosy-red with the glow of my heart's desire, Gleaner of my sunset songs! Your lips are bitter-sweet with the taste of my wine of pain. You are my own, my own, Dweller in my lonesome dreams! With the shadow of my passion have I darkened your eyes, Haunter of the depth of my gaze! I have caught you and wrapt you, my love, in the net of my music. You are my own, my own, Dweller in my deathless dreams!
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