A lyrical poem reflecting on the contrast between a once-joyful heart and its present heaviness. The speaker laments the passage of time, using winter as a metaphor for emotional coldness and loss. The whereabouts of a beloved are unknown, and life itself is dismissed as pitiful. The poem closes circularly, returning to the opening image of former lightness, underscoring how irrevocably that lightness has been lost.
By Robert Louis Stevenson · Genre: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Memoir/Autobiographical Fiction