[6] 1842 and 1843. Though.
[7] Ambrosial, the Greek sense of ἀμβρόσιος, divine.
[8] 1833 to 1851. Though.
[9] 1833. Did roof noonday with doubt and fear.
[10] 1833.
As waves that from the outer deep
Roll into a quiet cove,
There fall away, and lying still,
Having glorious dreams in sleep,
Shadow forth the banks at will.
[11] Cf. Horace, Odes, iii., xxvii., 66-8:
Aderat querenti
Perfidum ridens Venus, et remisso
Filius arcu.
[12] 1833.
I gaze on thee the cloudless noon
Of mortal beauty.
[13] 1833. Then I faint, I swoon. The latter part of the eighth stanza is little more than an adaptation of Sappho’s famous Ode, filtered perhaps through the version of Catullus.
[14] It is curious that a poet so scrupulous as Tennyson should have retained to the last the italics.