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    Poetry

    Legends and Lyrics – Second Series

    by LovelyMay
    Legends and Lyrics - Second Series by Adelaide Anne Procter is a collection of poetry that reflects on themes of faith, love, and moral integrity, offering lyrical and inspirational verses that emphasize spiritual and emotional depth.

    “Leg­ends and Lyrics — Sec­ond Series” con­tains a deeply poignant verse titled “A LETTER,” elu­ci­dat­ing the com­plex­i­ties and emo­tive inten­si­ty of attempt­ing to con­vey love through writ­ten words. The speak­er starts by express­ing a yearn­ing to encap­su­late the entire­ty of their affec­tion in a let­ter to their beloved. The essence of the strug­gle lies in the inher­ent inad­e­qua­cy of writ­ten love as a medi­um to ful­ly artic­u­late feel­ings, which, accord­ing to the speak­er, would be much more effort­less­ly com­mu­ni­cat­ed through the sim­ple act of being in the beloved’s pres­ence, where non-ver­bal cues such as hold­ing hands or look­ing into each oth­er’s eyes speak vol­umes.

    The speak­er details the process of writ­ing the let­ter, fol­lowed by a peri­od of con­tem­pla­tion and doubt con­cern­ing how the let­ter would be received by their loved one. There’s an under­ly­ing fear about whether the moment of its read­ing would align with an appro­pri­ate mood or sit­u­a­tion, pon­der­ing if the let­ter might either be unwel­come or not giv­en the grav­i­tas it was intend­ed to car­ry. This reflec­tion leads to a moment of hes­i­ta­tion, influ­enced per­haps by a mix of shy­ness, love, and pride, cul­mi­nat­ing in a deci­sion not to send the let­ter, after all, leav­ing the speak­er to turn their gaze wist­ful­ly towards the sun­set, a sym­bol of unre­quit­ed or unre­vealed love.

    In a moment of epiphany, the speak­er real­izes that the true essence of love tran­scends the phys­i­cal and tem­po­ral, hint­ing at a spir­i­tu­al or tele­path­ic con­nec­tion between lovers. Embrac­ing this con­cept, the speak­er decides to “send” their love through the silence, hold­ing onto a belief or hope that their beloved, per­haps in a moment of soli­tary reflec­tion, would sense and rec­i­p­ro­cate this intan­gi­ble com­mu­ni­ca­tion of deep affec­tion.

    Through lush, evoca­tive lan­guage, this verse cap­tures the eter­nal dilem­ma faced by lovers: the strug­gle to ade­quate­ly con­vey the depth of one’s feel­ings through mere words. It high­lights an alter­na­tive, almost mys­ti­cal path­way of emo­tion­al exchange where souls can com­mu­ni­cate beyond the lim­i­ta­tions of the mate­r­i­al world, sug­gest­ing that the most pro­found expres­sions of love are often those felt rather than spo­ken.

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