The speaker comments "mine asking" was granted "with a smile / Like wealthy men who care not how they (*) give" before lamenting that he has learned the meaning of the saying, "The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts."
In this poem's first stanza, the speaker describes living "Here at the quiet limit of the world" appearing as a "white-haired shadow roaming . . . The ever silent spaces of the east." The speaker of this poem asks, "How can my nature longer mix with thine?" before begging his lover "Release me, and restore me to the ground." The speaker comments "mine asking" was granted "with a smile / Like wealthy men who care not how they (*) give" before lamenting that he has learned the meaning of the saying, "The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts." This poem begins with the assertion, "The woods decay, the woods decay and fall" before the speaker exclaims he is a "gray shadow, once a man" who watches as "after many a summer dies the swan." For 10 points, name this Tennyson poem about the titular lover of Eos who was granted immortality but not eternal youth. 
In this poem's first stanza, the speaker describes living "Here at the quiet limit of the world" appearing as a "white-haired shadow roaming . . .
"Tithonus"