Oenone : by Tennyson in which Oenone is a fountain nymph of Mt. Ida.
... magic and vision which if it had been sustained and kept the same delicate and mystic strain, might have made the cycle of idylls a new poetic revelation. In other poems, in the Lotos-Eaters, Ulysses, Oenone , where set narrative is avoided and the legend is a starting-point or support for thought, vision and beauty, some fullness of these things is reached; but still Page 153 the form is greater ...
... woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. In Oenone, again, the verse moves smoothly in easy regular steps suggesting a superficial adequacy and fullness of articulation: O mother Ida, many-fountaind Ida, Dear mother Ida, hearken ere ...
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