Invitation
Come, my Content, The hungry days are spent! —
Beauty, illumine me As sunlight fills a narrow waveless sea!
Anna Wickham
Come, my Content, The hungry days are spent! —
Beauty, illumine me As sunlight fills a narrow waveless sea!
Anna Wickham’s short lines read like a gentle invitation after a hard time. The speaker calls out to “Content” as if it were a friend or guest, saying the “hungry days” of longing or struggle are over. There is real relief in that phrase—something difficult has ended.
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