Ah! Sunflower
death
time
ode
melancholic
Ah Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sunflower wishes to go!
Ah! Sunflower - meaning Summary
Yearning for Eternal Rest
Blake addresses a personified sunflower as a figure tired of temporal life and longing for a permanent, radiant resting place. The poem links this longing to an imagined afterlife where earthly suffering ends and the dead — a yearning youth and a pale virgin — are raised to the same golden realm the sunflower seeks. It frames hope for release from time and desire as a consoling, forward-looking aspiration.
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