The original edition of this poem began "Ay me! ay me!" and the "swan" that dies many summers was not a swan but a "rose."
The original edition of this poem began "Ay me! ay me!" and the "swan" that dies many summers was not a swan but a "rose." The title character remembers a lover from his youth who used to whisper "wild and sweet" melodies, like the music of Apollo's lyre. He regrets that he is now a "gray shadow" and realizes the ruin in living beyond the "goal of ordinance." He envy's his love's ability to rise each morning to "warm happy men that have the power to die." FTP, name this poem that begins "The woods decay, the woods decay and fall," a Tennyson piece about the mythical brother of Priam and lover of Aurora.
The original edition of this poem began "Ay me! ay me!" and the "swan" that dies many summers was not a swan but a "rose."
“{Tithonus}”