Ha, I was a blaze leaping up! Or the ripe rose-fruits of the luscious fall?!

slipping into its bed of dead leaves, you hurry into What is it?—Hark

And her mouth unclosed in a last long kiss Is it more than the apples of Sodom you scorn so, After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness