Poetry · Chapter
Endnotes explained
The endnotes section includes a poem about two lovers in a garden, a biblical reference to Proverbs 30:4, and a note about the original publication's blank pages for reader reflections.
What happens
The endnotes section includes a poem about two lovers in a garden, a biblical reference to Proverbs 30:4, and a note about the original publication's blank pages for reader reflections.
Themes in this chapter
Love as Ultimate Strength
The poem depicts two lovers reunited in a garden, their love restoring youth and joy despite their tragic separation.
Key passages
“In a lovely garden walking Two lovers went hand in hand; Two wan, worn figures, talking They sat in the flowery land.”
Two pale, weary lovers walk hand in hand through a beautiful garden and sit together among the flowers.
The poem describes the lovers' tender reunion in a garden setting.
“She lay in the cloister stilly, He far in the dungeon-tower!”
She lies still in the convent, while he is imprisoned far away in a tower.
The lovers are separated by their circumstances, she in a cloister and he in a dungeon.