help interpeting poem?

Question

For my infant, who live but 18 hrs
As the pure snoe-drop, child of April Tears
Shook by the rough winds desolating breath
Scarce o'er the chilly sod its low head rears
and trembling dies upon the paren health
So my lost boy, arrayed in fancys charms
to the cold tyrant strected his feeble arms
and struggling sighed his lil life away
as not in vain the early snow-drop rose
thu short its date and heard the withering gale
since its pale bloom ethereal balm bestows
and cheers with vernal hope and wasted vale
my perished child, dear pledge of many a pain!
torn from this ruffian world, in yon bright spphere
joins with awakened voice the cherub train
and pours his sweet breath on a mothers ear
kind dreams of morn his fairy phantom bring
and floating tones of ecstasy impart
kind dreams of morn his fairy phantom bring
and floating seraphs strike the heavenly string
to charm the settled sorrow of the heart

Answer 1

A mother or father mornig the death of an infant. The "tyrant" could represnt the ruffin world or god.

The calm the parent recieves in the end seems to come in a dream as the lost child speaks to them.

Answer 2

I believe the cold tyrant is death. As has been said, this poem is about the death of a child. I believe it is also saying that the child didn't live in vain, and though the death was painful to the parent (assuming mother), she views him now like an angel. The brief time he spent on Earth, the fact he is no longer pained, and the idea that he lives now helps with the grief and sorrow.

Answer 3

Her pure little boy, was taken in a horrible way, although he fought toughly through the battle. But it offered some good, like winter, as then there was better life after despair, where her child would wake up to angels, and be somewhat of a guardian to his mother, blessing her dreams and easing her pain.

Answer 4

This is the song of a mother who has lost a child, and in her grief she phantasizes that she hears him in her dreams, and sees him as a fairy phantom, and these kind dreams bring solace to her heart.

Answer 5

a mother talking about her son that died right after birth. she's upset, referring to God as the "cold tyrant" but later is comforted by knowing that he's in heaven. ???

Answer 6

a little child that has died. And the mothers pain at the loss.