Amor Victrix by Marie Van Vorst

Name: Amor Victrix
Author: Marie Van Vorst

“Amor Victrix” is a speaker’s defiant meditation on approaching death. Death is imagined as a strong, proud, invisible power drawing near in darkness, destined to chill and overcome the body until it becomes white and powerless like ash. Yet the speaker listens for a message from “the veiled years,” possessing a calm invincibility equal to Death’s own. When Death finally comes, the speaker will meet it smiling and deny its mastery: though the bodily altar crumbles, the spirit remains deathless. From that spiritual shrine, the speaker’s love and the beloved’s love rise together as twin flames toward God’s bliss and immortality.

By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1908 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Death Poetry · 182 words

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Strong Death, proud power invisible, even now / Slowly thou drawest near me in the dark, -- / And though within me the clear glowing spark / Of life is warm and beats in heart and brow, / My body shall grow colder, till I bow, / White as the ash, thine unresisting mark. / But for the word from the veiled years I hark, -- / As calm and as invincible as Thou. / And when at last I feel thy kisses, -- Death, -- / My fading lips shall smiling tell thee this -- / "Master thou art not! On my Spirit's shrine / Deathless, although the altar crumbleth. / Ascend twin flames in one, -- to find God's bliss, / As God immortal, -- my Love's love and mine! "

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Work type: Poem
Author: Marie Van Vorst
Date: 1908 CE
Language: English
Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Death Poetry, Religious Poetry, Sonnet
Length: 182 words
Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)

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Lyric Poetry — The work is a brief, intensely personal poetic meditation expressed through a single speaker's emotional and spiritual response to death.
Love Poetry — Its central assertion is that love survives bodily death, culminating in the image of the speaker's love joining eternally with the beloved's.
Death Poetry — Death is directly addressed as an approaching, powerful presence, while the poem contemplates physical decline, mortality, and the fate of the spirit.
Religious Poetry — The conclusion invokes God, immortality, the soul, and divine bliss, framing love's victory over death in explicitly spiritual terms.