Louisa
After Accompanying Her On A Mountain Excursion
Louisa - meaning Summary
Wild Affection in Nature
The speaker meets Louisa and celebrates her as a vigorous, nymph-like rural woman who moves easily across rocks and moorland. He admires her love of home and of wild weather, linking physical vitality to natural imagery like mountain rains and waterfalls. The poem expresses affectionate longing for simple companionship: the speaker would gladly give up worldly things to share a brief, rustic hour with her amid caves, brooks, and mossy nooks.
Read Complete AnalysesI MET Louisa in the shade, And, having seen that lovely Maid, Why should I fear to say That, nymph-like, she is fleet and strong, And down the rocks can leap along Like rivulets in May? She loves her fire, her cottage-home; Yet o'er the moorland will she roam In weather rough and bleak; And, when against the wind she strains, Oh! might I kiss the mountain rains That sparkle on her cheek. Take all that's mine "beneath the moon," If I with her but half a noon May sit beneath the walls Of some old cave, or mossy nook, When up she winds along the brook To hunt the waterfalls.
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