This is another poem that has such a strong sense of loss and love. The poignancy factor comes from the true loss that the person suffered when their loved one has died. The entire beginning speaks about how there is nothing more to live for, this stanza being the most heartfelt to me:
“No later light has lightened up my heaven,
No second morn has ever shone for me;
All my life’s bliss from they dear life was given,
All my life’s bliss is in the grave with thee.”
The passion in those lines is truly felt, but just like in Easter Morning, the speaker has to deal with the loss, and move on into the future. With “checking the tears of useless passion”, and “weaned my young soul from yearning after thine”, it shows that the speaker knows that they have life ahead of them, and they need to move on without the joy that the previous lover has brought to them. It is time to move on and find new joy in an empty world.
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