This poem asks, "What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
This poem asks, "What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become portions and parcels of the dreadful past." Characters in this poem worry that they "should come like ghosts to trouble joy" and declare, "Let what is broken so remain." The first speaker describes "a land in which it seemed always afternoon" where he encounters the "mild-eyed melancholy" title characters, who sing a "choric song" concluding, "O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more." For 10 points, name this poem by Lord Tennyson about the consumers of a certain psychoactive fruit from the Odyssey.
This poem asks, "What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
"The Lotos-Eaters"