I am the presence at the dark, low door.'
Im highlighting this just because its a whole different mood than the first line of the poem.
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Thus crying for the light of a new day? If wonders press on thee, Delay thy feet, -- delay!
Crying for the new day and light, I guess is targeting to say that if you have a bad day there's always a next day and that next day can be better.
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We are all children lost, of one great race, Sighing for light, Whom thou alone canst bless;
I like the target of what this is aiming to reach very descriptive.
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My heart is searching for thee, And lost in longing for thy voice!
Th.is is a great way to start off and set the tone of the poem
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Who with salt tears this last Farewel did take. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Print this page Email this page More About this Poem
I think its important to compare the first line to the last and how much the poem changes within it self.
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If any worth or virtue were in me, Let that live freshly in thy memory And when thou feel’st no grief, as I no harms, Yet love thy dead, who long lay in thine arms.
the focus here on the virtue she believes are in her drive this line to anything having to do with grief or being harmed.
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We are both ignorant, yet love bids me
Interesting transistion here as he goes onto farewell lines in his next line after this and talks about untied knots that made people one.
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No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet, But with death’s parting blow is sure to meet.
I like these lines saying pretty much bringing up great points about friendships
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So many steps, head from the heart to sever If but a neck, soon should we be together: I like the earth this season, mourn in black,
Another interesting line and the way she uses color to get her point across about her own personal feelings.
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My head, my heart, mine Eyes, my life, nay more, My joy, my Magazine of earthly store,
This is poem is off to a quick start especially talking about emotion of the bat and the joy.
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My love is such that rivers cannot quench,My ... rivers cannot quench Compare the Song of Solomon: “Muche water can not quenche love, nether can the floods drowne it." (Geneva Bible) Also, quench could mean to satisfy. Nor oughtought Anything but love from thee give recompenserecompense Return payment; reward. Thy love is such I can no way repay;
the first line in this is really awesome comparing his love quench which is satisfying a thirst and she says the love is such i can no way repay.
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,
this is a very interesting line hitting on a lot of things here going back and forth between genders and bringing up certain emotions
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I wash’d thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.
I like the goal with this line is to get a point across by saying you wash the face but you will still see defects and rubbing it of still makes mistakes.
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In Criticks hands, beware thou dost not come; And take thy way where yet thou art not known,
This is a great line to me talking about critics and her fears in life is very powerful especially to this poem.
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Who thee abroad, expos’d to publick view, Made thee in raggs, halting to th’ press to trudge,
This is a great start to the poem it is interrupting that the narrator is speaking directly to her own book
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