The Gardener 32: Tell Me
The Gardener 32: Tell Me - meaning Summary
Questioning Love's Reality
The speaker repeatedly asks a lover to confirm extravagant, almost cosmic claims about their effect on the beloved. Through images of storms, buds, harp-like earth, dewdrops and morning light, the speaker seeks reassurance that their presence awakens love, memory and music, that the beloved’s long search ended in peace, and that a divine mystery is somehow embodied in the speaker’s small forehead.
Read Complete AnalysesTell me if this be all true, my lover, tell me if this be true. When these eyes flash their lightning the dark clouds in your breast make stormy answer. Is it true that my lips are sweet like the opening bud of the first conscious love? Do the memories of vanished months of May linger in my limbs? Does the earth, like a harp, shiver into songs with the touch of my feet? Is it then true that the dewdrops fall from the eyes of night when I am seen, and the morning light is glad when it wraps my body round? Is it true, is it true, that your love travelled alone through ages and worlds in search of me? That when you found me at last, your age-long desire found utter peace in my gentle speech and my eyes and lips and flowing hair? Is it then true that the mystery of the Infinite is written on this little forehead of mine? Tell me, my lover, if all this be true.
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