Wanting is - What? (Robert Browning)

Ah, a classic! I've seen this poem by Robert Browning before in a Norton Anthology, so it's part of canon, though I've never considered it before.

It seems to be a concrete poem (the lines form some recognizable object). It makes a cross. The words make me think of the advent of spring - flowers and abundance. But because the lines make a cross it makes me think of the ever renewing promise in Christianity.

Favorite line: "And all that was death / Grows life, grows love, / Grows love!"

And all that was death
                Grows life, grows love,
                     Grows love! - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23404#sthash.FMBqIr6U.dpuf

And all that was death
                Grows life, grows love,
                     Grows love! - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23404#sthash.FMBqIr6U.dpuf