The speaker of this poem recalls "kisses balmier than half-opening buds" and how "dim curls [would] kindle into sunny rings," but remembers that each time his lover departs, "thy tears are on my cheek."
The speaker of this poem recalls "kisses balmier than half-opening buds" and how "dim curls [would] kindle into sunny rings," but remembers that each time his lover departs, "thy tears are on my cheek." In its final stanza, this poem notes how its addressee's "rosy shadows" coldly bathe its speaker, who has passed "beyond the goal of ordinance." One work whose title is drawn from this poem sees an ape-like human encountered by Dr. Obispo and Virginia after Peter is killed by aging producer Jo Stoyte. Beginning "the woods decay, the woods decay and fall," this poem bursts into a cry of "ay me, ay me" after quoting "The Gods themselves cannot recall their Gifts." The speaker of this poem laments the assault of "strong hours indignant" and complains that his (*) wrinkled feet are cold, before begging "release me, and restore me to the ground" and thinking of "happy men that have the power to die." That speaker, a son of Laomedon, whines that "me only cruel immortality/Consumes" after noting that "after many a summer dies the swan." FTP, identify this poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, whose titular figure was a lover of Eos in Greek myth who turned into a grasshopper after receiving eternal life without eternal youth.
The speaker of this poem recalls "kisses balmier than half-opening buds" and how "dim curls [would] kindle into sunny rings," but remembers that each time his lover departs, "thy tears are on my cheek."
{Tithonus}