“Love, strong as Death, shall conquer Death, Through struggle made more glorious.”
- Date
- c. 1850
Meaning of “Love, strong as Death, shall conquer Death, Through…”
The bereavement poem turns enduring love into a religious claim that loss does not exhaust the relationship or its hoped-for future.
Where does it come from?
“A Child’s Grave at Florence,” stanza XXIII; Project Gutenberg #31015. This is Christian elegiac conviction, not empirical evidence about death or grief outcomes.