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| current | 23:37, 16 January 2017 | | 5,155 × 6,656 (18.5 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Illustration to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" class="extiw" title="en:Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Tennyson's</a> "Sleeping Beauty" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Britten" class="extiw" title="en:William Britten">W. E. F. Britten</a>. 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: <dl> <dd>Year after year unto her feet,</dd> <dd>She lying on her couch alone,</dd> <dd>Across the purpled coverlet,</dd> <dd>The maiden's jet-black hair has grown,</dd> <dd>On either side her tranced form</dd> <dd>Forth streaming from a braid of pearl:</dd> <dd>The slumbrous light is rich and warm,</dd> <dd>And moves not on the rounded curl.</dd> <dd> </dd> <dd>The silk star-broider'd coverlid</dd> <dd>Unto her limbs itself doth mould</dd> <dd>Languidly ever; and, amid</dd> <dd>Her full black ringlets downward roll'd,</dd> <dd>Glows forth each softly-shadow'd arm,</dd> <dd>With bracelets of the diamond bright:</dd> <dd>Her constant beauty doth inform</dd> <dd>Stillness with love, and day with light.</dd> <dd> </dd> <dd>She sleeps: her breathings are not heard</dd> <dd>In palace chambers far apart.</dd> <dd>The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd</dd> <dd>That lie upon her charmed heart.</dd> <dd>She sleeps: on either hand upswells</dd> <dd>The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest:</dd> <dd>She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells</dd> <dd>A perfect form in perfect rest.</dd> </dl> |
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