7/25/2023 0 Comments Eternal sunshine on the spotless![]() ![]() Thou know’st how guiltless first I met thy flame, Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, The virgin’s wish without her fears impart,Įxcuse the blush, and pour out all the heart, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires, They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, ![]() Some banish’d lover, or some captive maid Heav’n first taught letters for some wretch’s aid, Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief Īh, more than share it! give me all thy grief. Love but demands what else were shed in pray’r Tears still are mine, and those I need not spare, Nor foes nor fortune take this pow’r away Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine. Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join There died the best of passions, love and fame. There stern religion quench’d th’ unwilling flame, Now warm in love, now with’ring in thy bloom, Line after line my gushing eyes o’erflow, Some dire misfortune follows close behind. Still breath’d in sighs, still usher’d with a tear. That well-known name awakens all my woes. Nor tears, for ages, taught to flow in vain. Nor pray’rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain, Still rebel nature holds out half my heart Though cold like you, unmov’d, and silent grown,Īll is not Heav’n’s while Abelard has part, Shrines! where their vigils pale-ey’d virgins keep,Īnd pitying saints, whose statues learn to weep! Ye grots and caverns shagg’d with horrid thorn! Ye rugged rocks! which holy knees have worn Relentless walls! whose darksome round contains Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeys. Where mix’d with God’s, his lov’d idea lies: Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal’d. Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat? Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat? What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins? Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, Here is Alexander Pope’s letter from Eloise to Abelard, which served as the inspiration for the poem The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The 1717 book Eloisa to Abélard concentrates on the romance that took place in the 12th century between young, educated Eloisa (Hélose) and her teacher, theologian Pierre Abélard.Ī secret marriage because of the romance led to disaster: Abélard was forcefully castrated and unable to rise in the Catholic church, while Eloisa was sent to a convent. The untarnished intellect of eternal sunshine of the spotless mind poem title is taken from a phrase in “Eloise to Abelard” by Alexander Pope, which Mary Svevo reads to Howard before the memory-erasing process.Įternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Poem ![]()
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