Its first stanza observes that "the woods decay, the woods decay and fall," and laments "Me only cruel immortality / Consumes" even though "after many a summer dies the swan.
In 2005, scholars discovered a poem by Sappho comparing herself to this figure. Another poem of this name asks "Why should a man desire in any way" to "vary from the kindly race of men" or "pass beyond the goal of ordinance?", and quotes "The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts." That poem's narrator recalls how "strong Hours indignant""beat [him] down and marr'd and wasted [him]," and describes how he used to watch his lover's "dim curls kindle into sunny rings." The speaker calls himself "a gray shadow, once a man," and begs "release me, and restore me to the ground." Its first stanza observes that "the woods decay, the woods decay and fall," and laments "Me only cruel immortality / Consumes" even though "after many a summer dies the swan." FTP, name this Alfred Lord Tennyson poem about a lover of Eos who became a grasshopper after being granted eternal life without eternal youth.
In 2005, scholars discovered a poem by Sappho comparing herself to this figure.
{“Tithonus”}