Selections from Tennyson Author:Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, William C. Devane General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Macmillan Description: At head of title: English poetical literature for 1892, for university matriculation and departmental leaving examination. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos... more » or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 7. limit, the verge of the eastern horizon, the home of Aurora. 8. a dream, i. e. as representing something unreal and unsubstantial. 10. far-folded mists, mists that lie in folds far away in the eastern sky at dawn. 18. thy strong Hours, i. e. all-conquering Time. Cf. In Mem. i. 13, "the victor Hours." The Hours (Lat. Horae) were three sisters, daughters of Jupiter and Themis. They are represented here as attendants on the gods. work'd their wills. Witts is to be parsed as an objective partially cognate to the verb work'd ; ' work'd their works' would be the strictly cognate form. Cf. 'to shout applause,' ' to drink one's fill.' 19. marr'd. Mar is from a root signifying to bruise, crush, on which see Max Miiller's Lectures, vol. ii. pp. 347-367. 20. malm'd, impaired, disfigured. 23. and all ... ashes, and left me with all my pristine beauty and vigour decayed and destroyed. 25. the silver star, thy guide, the planet Venus or the Morning Star, the pioneer of the dawn. Cf. " Large Hesper glittered on her tear " (Mariana in the South). 29. kindly, of the same kind or nature with himself. 30. the goal of ordinance, the ordained goal or limit of human existence. 32. a soft air, etc. This passage describes the gradual appearance of the dawn. First, through a break in the cloud, Tithonus sees a glimpse of the earth. Then the veil of weird, glimmering twilight is withdrawn, and the dawn, pure and fresh, begins to reveal itself. Soon th...« less