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‘A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream / The ever-silent spaces of the East, / …’: If it were as a shadow ….

December 30, 2025

For the full text of Tennyson’s Tithonus see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45389/tithonus If it were as a shadow, I’d accept The gift of living a very long life: Though gifted only in a thought that crept In my ear as if escaped from the strife It sought to save me from: being ended Too soon, or too long … More ‘A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream / The ever-silent spaces of the East, / …’: If it were as a shadow ….

A very long life? ‘Tis ‘A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream / The ever-silent spaces of the East’

December 30, 2023

Okay, said young Tithonus, to the goddess of the Dawn, as she senses that this boy has prominent qualities that make him worth the effort of capture – ‘but as long as I can live forever’ he says. At which the Goddess possibly smiled. Humans never work their wishes through do they? Tennyson says it … More A very long life? ‘Tis ‘A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream / The ever-silent spaces of the East’