...appear rooted in the things to which they purport to refer. Taking the lines from the Atalanta chorus, "Time with a gift of tears; / Grief with a glass that ran," Eliot objects to the randomness of Swinburne's statements: "When we wake up we find that the 'glass...

...drip." Earth fed Him with the bread of tears. Swinburne declares that with the making of man there came Time with a gift of tears Grief with a glass that ran. In the making of the man Christ Jesus, there was added the human ability to weep and grieve. Describing...

...Bowl of Night. . . . Ibid., LII And that inverted Bowl we call The Sk) Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran. Swinburne's The Triumph of Time By the tideless, dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and...

...poetry should be destitute of meaning. Instead of slightly veiled and resonant abstractions, like: Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran— of Swinburne, or the mossiness of Mallarme, Pound's verse is always definite and concrete, because...

...SWINBURNE (1837-1909) Atalanta In Calydon 1 Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man A Forsaken Garden 10 In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between...

...these things are not otherwise, but thus Before the heginning of years There came to rhe making of man Time with a gift of tears; Grief with a glass that ran This is not merely "music"; it is effective hecause it appears to he a tremendous statement, like statements...

...begins. 1 1354 'Atalanta in Cafydon' Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man t just as well or more accurately - say it is short, si 11355 'Atalanta in Cafydon' Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night,...

...death is a sleep. Chorus from "Atalanta" Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance fallen from heaven, And...

...chorus from "Aralanta in Calydon."u Before the beginning of years, There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance fallen from heaven, And...

...Robert and the children and grandchildren Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran. AC Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon Contents List of exercises ix List of tables xi Introduction to first...