The speaker asks for a tired girl to be placed somewhere still and sheltered, between two hills, away from the constant brightness of sea and sun. She has too much on her mind and cannot keep running on the lively surface of the earth. What she needs is a kind of burial or hiding away, not necessarily final—a pause in the dark, swarming quiet of the soil. The speaker imagines that after this time of silent pondering underground, she will return through some new birth to the sounds and light she left behind, finally able to find words for the person she loves. The mood is tender and hushed, full of sympathy for someone drained by life’s demands. The earth is not scary but motherly: a place where a tired mind can rest, gather itself, and eventually speak again.
Tired Girl — Summary
Put her away some place between two hills, Away from the sea and the sun.
She has so much to think of — must she run On your bright bosom always, Mother Earth ? Put her away, and let some other birth Bring her back to the sound of the sea, and the sun.
After she ponders under silent hills, Beneath your swarming bosom, Mother Earth, She will have words for her beloved one.