Edward Fairfax Quote

The rosy-fingered morn with gladsome ray
Rose to her task from old Tithonus' lap.


Book XV, stanza 1. Compare: Ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς ("Rosy-fingered Dawn"), Homer, Iliad, 1.477. - Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)


The rosy-fingered morn with gladsome ray Rose to her task from old Tithonus' lap.

The rosy-fingered morn with gladsome ray Rose to her task from old Tithonus' lap.

The rosy-fingered morn with gladsome ray Rose to her task from old Tithonus' lap.

The rosy-fingered morn with gladsome ray Rose to her task from old Tithonus' lap.