Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 126-131
'Tis midnight, but small thoughts have I of sleep:
Full seldom may my friend such vigils keep!
Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing,
And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,
Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!
- Our speaker stops talking about that horrible wind, and now focuses back on himself.
- Even though it's midnight, he can't get off to sleep. He really hopes that his "friend"—the "Lady" from before—doesn't have to go through anything like this. If she does, he hopes that it only happens to her "seldom" (127).
- It would be better if she were sleeping, in fact. The speaker calls upon a personified version of sleep (notice the capital S) to heal his "Lady" friend.
- He also wishes for the storm that he's been describing to be a typically short, if violent, mountain storm ("be but a mountain-birth") (129).
- He then goes on to wish for bright stars to hang above the home of his friend, looking down at the personified, sleeping Earth.
Lines 132-139
With light heart may she rise,
Gay fancy, cheerful eyes.
Joy lift her spirit, joy attune her voice;
To her may all things live, from pole to pole,
Their life the eddying of her living soul!
O simple spirit, guided from above,
Dear Lady! friend devoutest of my choice,
Thus may'st thou ever, evermore rejoice.
- Our speaker's not done with his wish list yet, though.
- He wishes for his friend to wake up with a figuratively light heart, a happy spirit ("gay fancy"), and a heaping helping of that joy that he's been talking about (133).
- He wants the world to seem alive to her (unlike his own perceptions of dead leaves and haunted houses), to stir her spirit ("the eddying of her living soul!") (136).
- He calls his "Lady" friend a "simple spirit" and says that she's divinely guided ("from above") (137).
- This isn't just any friend, though. He lets the "Lady" know that she's his number one seed when it comes to friendship ("devoutest of my choice") (138) and hopes that she'll always be happy and rejoice.
- So, even though he's totally down in the dumps and depressed, he still wishes her happiness and joy—what a guy.