Luce Adorabile by Marie Van Vorst
The speaker recalls being lost in darkness and believing that no better path was possible. A beloved, free in spirit and marked by purity, comes down from a brighter way to notice the speaker’s weak, flickering light. Through this compassionate arrival, the beloved’s vivid flame rekindles the speaker’s own, bringing sacred radiance and hope where light had disappeared.
By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1899 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Spiritual Poetry · 127 words
First lines
You came to me when I had turned and said: -- / "This, in my darkened life can never be, / My ways are in the stumbler's paths instead! " / You came to me / High and unprejudiced and spirit free. / Wearing God's seal upon your pure forehead, / Dearest, you bent from your bright way to see / My flickering torch: your own, live-flashing, red / Rekindled the faint flame. Thus holily, / A radiance, a light when light had fled, / You came to me.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Marie Van Vorst
- Date: 1899 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Spiritual Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Inspirational Poetry
- Length: 127 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The work is a brief, highly musical first-person poem organized in lines of concentrated emotional expression rather than narrative plot.
- Love Poetry — It addresses a beloved directly and presents that person's arrival as an act of intimate devotion, rescue, and renewal.
- Spiritual Poetry — Religious imagery such as "God's seal," holiness, radiance, and light frames the beloved's influence as morally and spiritually redemptive.
- Romantic Poetry — The poem emphasizes idealized love, emotional intensity, purity, and the transformative power of a cherished figure.
Tags
fiction · novel · romance · love · relationships · social drama · women's lives · society · emotional conflict · character study · domestic life · early twentieth century