ousehold riends FOR EVERY SEASON "The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!" Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: CAMBRIDGE. THE HESPERIDES.* BY ALFRED TENNYSON. TH "Hesperus and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree."- COMUS. HE North-wind fallen, in the new-starrèd night The hoary promontory of Soloë Past Thymiaterion, in calmèd bays, Between the southern and the western Horn, Blown seaward from the shore; but from a slope SONG. I. The golden apple, the golden apple, the hallowed fruit, The Laureate of England (whose latest portrait fronts our title-page) has seen fit to ignore many of his earlier productions, some of which he thought well enough of once. The one entitled "Hesperides" is too gen. |