The Woman Who Loves
The Woman Who Loves - meaning Summary
Longing Offered and Surrendered
A speaker moves from long solitude into a sudden, compelling desire for another person. Where once memory and silence kept them like a stone, an internal awakening—linked to spring—unleashes feelings previously denied. The poem charts the shift from guarded loneliness to a willing surrender: the speaker entrusts their renewed, warm life to the beloved, emphasizing urgency, seriousness, and the transformative power of newfound love.
Read Complete AnalysesAh yes! I long for you. To you I glide And lose myself—for to you I belong. The hope that hitherto I have denied Imperious comes to me as from your side Serious, unfaltering and swift and strong. Those times: the times when I was quite alone By memories wrapt that whispered to me low, My silence was the quiet of a stone Over which rippling murmuring waters flow. But in these weeks of the awakening Spring Something within me has been freed—something That in the past dark years unconscious lay, Which rises now within me and commands And gives my poor warm life into your hands Who know not what I was that Yesterday.
Translated by Jessie Lamont
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