Eleanore

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First printed in 1833. When reprinted in 1842 the alterations noted were then made, and after that the text remained unchanged. [Footnote 1: With the picture of Ele**** may be compared the description which Ibycus gives of Euryalus. See Bergk's 'Anthologia Lyrica' (Ibycus), p. 396.] [Footnote 2: With yellow banded bees 'cf'. Keats's "yellow girted bees," 'Endymion', i. With this may be compared Pindar's beautiful picture of lamus, who was also fed on honey, 'Olympian', vi., 50-80.] [Footnote 3: 1833 and 1842. Through.] [Footnote 4: Till 1857. Island.] [Footnote 5: 1833. Meer.] [Footnote 6: 1842 and 1843. Though.] [Footnote 7: Ambrosial, the Greek sense of [Greek: ambrosios], divine.] [Footnote 8: 1833 to 1851. Though.] [Footnote 9: 1833. Did roof noonday with doubt and fear.] [Footnote 10: 1833. [Footnote 11: 'Cf.' Horace, 'Odes', iii., xxvii., 66-8: [Footnote 12: 1833. [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 14: It is curious that a poet so scrupulous as Tennyson should have retained to the last the italics.]
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