The Lover's Song
love
lyric poem
melancholic
Bird sighs for the air, Thought for I know not where, For the womb the seed sighs. Now sinks the same rest On mind, on nest, On straining thighs.
The Lover's Song - meaning Summary
Longing in Terse Images
The poem compresses a sequence of natural longings into a few images: a bird's sigh for air, an unnamed thought, and a seed's yearning for the womb. Those yearnings culminate in a shared, sinking rest that falls on mind, nest, and body. It presents desire as elemental and cyclical, moving from active striving to a resigned stillness that unites mental, domestic, and physical realms.
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