Love's Coming
She had looked for his coming as warriors come,
With the clash of arms and the bugle's call;
But he came instead with a stealthy tread,
Which she did not hear at all.
She had thought how his armor would blaze in the sun,
As he rode like a prince to claim his bride:
In the sweet dim light of the falling night
She found him at her side.
She had dreamed how the gaze of his strange, bold eye
Would wake her heart to a sudden glow:
She found in his face the familiar grace
Of a friend she used to know.
She had dreamed how his coming would stir her soul,
As the ocean is stirred by the wild storm's strife:
He brought her the balm of a heavenly calm,
And a peace which crowned her life.
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Who wrote the pome "Love's Coming"?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author
and poet who wrote “Solitude,” which contains the famous lines “Laugh, and the
world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” Popular among people rather
than among literary critics, she often displayed in her poems cheerful and
optimistic sentiments in plain and rhyming words. After she married Robert
Wilcox in 1884, the couple became interested in spiritualism and promised each
other that whoever died first would return and communicate with the other.
After her husband died in 1916 after over 30 years of marriage, she was
overwhelmed by grief and waited long to hear from her deceased husband in vain.
She also believed in reincarnation. She died of cancer in 1919.
"Love’s Coming" explanation
In the poem, the speaker talks about the
great expectation of falling in love, followed by realization of reality. The
poem consists of four 4-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. The first two
lines of each stanza shows the speaker’s expectation about love, and the latter
two lines of each stanza shows the reality.
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