How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
To one, it is ten years of years.
…Yet now, and in this place,
Surely she lean'd o'er me—her hair
Fell all about my face…. (19-22)
We're pretty amazed (and impressed) that the damozel can still have such an impression on the living lover—ten years after she's passed away. This enduring effect indicates that nothing, not even death, can separate these two—emotionally, anyway.
Quote #2
Beneath, the tides of day and night
With flame and darkness ridge
The void, as low as where this earth
Spins like a fretful midge. (33-36)
Here we see the damozel looking down at the teensie, weensie little gnat of a planet called Earth. We get it: she's far away. The poem uses physical distance to describe the impact that death can have in separating the lovers.
Quote #3
Around her, lovers, newly met
'Mid deathless love's acclaims,
Spoke evermore among themselves
Their heart-remember'd names; (37-40)
Here we see lovers being reunited in heaven. While this kind of rubs the damozel's nose in what she hasn't got, it underscores the poem's ideas about the power of love. It lasts even beyond death.