Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, ‘Quia Amore Langueo’, in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul of His enduring love. These frame the final ten sections, where de la Mare comes closest to an acceptance of the Christian vision. He recalls how ‘Scripture tells’ of the incarnate Christ in the stable, mentions the ‘carking Cross’, and quotes finally, from ‘Quia Amore Langueo’, Christ’s words: …’Long thou for love never so high,My love is more than thine may be’…
Ours is that wine; that water clear and cool;
That very vineyard; and the troubled pool;
Wherewith to fill the thirsting spirit full.

His spiritual odyssey leads him to accept Christian love in revelation, in poetry, and above all, in the joys and tribulations of ordinary life. {From Walter de la Mare society]