Morning > (Aurora, goddess of the dawn)
2 Weary of aged Tithonus' saffron bed,
Tithonus > (Son of the king of Troy and husband of Aurora. Through Aurora's prayers the gods bestowed immortality on Tithonus, but she forgot to pray for his perpetual youth, so that he was doomed to eternal old age. Eventually she shut him up in his chamber and turned him into a cicada)
3 Had spread her purple robe through dewy air, 4 And the high hills Titan discovered,
Titan > (The sun) discovered > [had] revealed
5 The royal virgin shook off drowsihood;
drowsihood > drowsiness
6 And, rising forth out of her baser bower,
baser > too-base, lowly; or: lowlier [than Aurora's] bower > room, chamber
7 Looked for her knight, who far away was fled, 8 And for her dwarf, that wont to wait each hour;