Lamp of Love
Lamp of Love - meaning Summary
Longing for Spiritual Light
The poem portrays intense yearning for an inner light — a spiritual or romantic illumination — amid overwhelming darkness and storm. The speaker pleads for desire to kindle a lamp of love, framing longing as both torment and necessary energy. Recurrent images of night, thunder, and a sleepless beloved convey urgency and frustration. The closing plea makes love and living synonymous: light must be kindled by the life and fervor of the heart.
Read Complete AnalysesLight, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire! There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame — s such thy fate, my heart? Ah, death were better by far for thee! Misery knocks at thy door, and her message is that thy lord is wakeful, and he calls thee to the love—tryst through the darkness of night. The sky is overcast with clouds and the rain is ceaseless. I know not what this is that stirs in me—I know not its meaning. A moment’s flash of lightning drags down a deeper gloom on my sight, and my heart gropes for the path to where the music of the night calls me. Light, oh where is the light! Kindle it with the burning fire of desire! It thunders and the wind rushes screaming through the void. The night is black as a black stone. Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.
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