He Comes
He Comes - meaning Summary
Union as Ecstatic Arrival
This poem celebrates the ecstatic arrival of the beloved, portrayed as a luminous, transformative presence whose coming dissolves the speaker’s bodily limits and floods the soul. Spiritual love is compared to wine that awakens and a sea that invites total immersion, prompting surrender and loss of self. The speaker frames the beloved as a radiant, sovereign force to which all hearts turn, binding mystical longing with images of light and intoxication.
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