Poetry · Chapter

To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead explained

A lament for a young woman who has died, imagining her lonely wandering in the afterlife, still seeking love in vain.

What happens

A lament for a young woman who has died, imagining her lonely wandering in the afterlife, still seeking love in vain.

Death and Mortality
The poem directly addresses the death of a young woman and her journey into the afterlife.
Love and Loss
The speaker's grief and the lover-lass's eternal search for love highlight themes of love and loss.

Unknown
The speaker mourns the dead lover-lass and wishes to be her beloved in death.
Death
The 'quiet way' and 'dark land of death' personify death as the destination of the lover-lass.

“She Who searched for lovers In the night Has gone the quiet way Into the still, Dark land of death Beyond the rim of day.”
The woman who once sought love in the darkness has now died and entered the silent realm of death.
Describes the transition from life to death.
“Now like a little lonely waif She walks An endless street And gives her kiss to nothingness.”
Now she wanders alone forever, offering her affection to emptiness.
Imagines the deceased's solitary afterlife.
“Would God his lips were sweet!”
I wish that God's lips were sweet so she could find the love she seeks.
The speaker's desperate wish for the dead woman to find love in the afterlife.