...habit of copying poems into her diary - and after her first journey she copies Tennyson's Lotos-Eaters: Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind...the hills like gods together, careless of mankind. At home she passed the long months deeply immersed in studying the Serbian language and reading Balkan...

...warmth of the sun. On that balcony one was like the Gods on their hills in Tennyson's The Lotos-Eaters: For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are...below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl' A Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. But though it was indeed a gleaming...

...Lotus-Eaters', both of which depict the wish for forgetfulness on the part of the eaters of the lotus tree: 'In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined...the hills like gods together, careless of mankind' ('The Lotus-Eaters', 154-5). 11. Cf. No. 22, 'Desespoir', l. 13. War in Europe: since July 1875, Serbia...

...ignorance of the dark side of life, an eternal, adolescent, good-time attitude. As Tennyson puts it, For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and all the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world83 The...

...anyway. The perfect life. The resting-place she had been seeking for ten years. "Live mid lie reelined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind For they lie beside their nectar, and the holts are hurled Far beloiv them in tlie valleys, and the elonds are lightly airled Ronnd their golden...

...state repeatedly in similar terms.37 In "The Lotos-Eaters," the chief desire of the chorus, finally, is "to live and lie reclined / On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind" ("The Lotos-Eaters," 15 4— 55), while the speaker of "Lucretius" struggles with his knowledge that...