The Gardener 50: My Heart Longs Day and Night
The Gardener 50: My Heart Longs Day and Night - meaning Summary
Longing for Spiritual Union
The poem expresses an urgent, consuming longing for union with the beloved that is also addressed as God. The speaker asks to be swept away, robbed, and laid bare, treating devastation and loss as the means to achieve spiritual and aesthetic oneness. Erotic language collapses into devotional surrender, so that annihilation of self becomes the only route to beauty and true union with the divine beloved.
Read Complete AnalysesLove, my heart longs day and night for the meeting with you -- for the meeting that is like all-devouring death. Sweep me away like a storm; Take everything I have; break open my sleep and plunder my dreams. Rob me of my world. In that devastation, in the utter nakedness of spirit, let us become one in beauty. Alas for my vain desire! Where is this hope for union except in thee, my God?
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