W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Sleeping Beauty

Autor:

• William Edward Frank Britten (1848–1916)
• Adam Cuerden (restoration)

Credit:

The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Edited with a Critical Introduction, Commentaries and Notes, together with the Various Readings, a Transcript of the Poems Temporarily and Finally Suppressed and a Bibliography by John Churton Collins. With ten illustrations in Photogravure by W. E. F. Britten. Methuen & Co. 36 Essex Street W. C. London, 1901

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Illustration to Tennyson's "Sleeping Beauty" by W. E. F. Britten. Like a lot of Tennyson poems based on a literary source, Tennyson only focuses on a tiny part of the whole. Hence, the poem leaves out all the setup and the conclusion, instead describing what her sleep was like:

Year after year unto her feet,

She lying on her couch alone,

Across the purpled coverlet,

The maiden's jet-black hair has grown,

On either side her tranced form

Forth streaming from a braid of pearl:

The slumbrous light is rich and warm,

And moves not on the rounded curl.

 

The silk star-broider'd coverlid

Unto her limbs itself doth mould

Languidly ever; and, amid

Her full black ringlets downward roll'd,

Glows forth each softly-shadow'd arm,

With bracelets of the diamond bright:

Her constant beauty doth inform

Stillness with love, and day with light.

 

She sleeps: her breathings are not heard

In palace chambers far apart.

The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd

That lie upon her charmed heart.

She sleeps: on either hand upswells

The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest:

She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells

A perfect form in perfect rest.

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Autor tej pracy zmarł w 1916 roku, więc ten materiał przeszedł do domeny publicznej w kraju pochodzenia, jak również w państwach i terytoriach, gdzie prawo autorskie wygasa w ciągu 100 lat po śmierci autora.

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