Her parentage was flexible: for Ovid , she could equally be Pallantis , signifying the daughter of Pallas , [ 4 ] or the daughter of Hyperion. A myth taken from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the prince of Troy , Tithonus. Tithonus was a mortal, and would therefore age and die. Jupiter granted her wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his immortality, and he continued to age, eventually becoming forever old.
From Homer 's Iliad :. Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hastening from the streams of Okeanos , to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armor that the god had given her. But soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy -fingered, then gathered the folk about the pyre of glorious Hector.
Ovid's Heroides A Phrygian was the husband of Aurora, yet she, the goddess who appoints the last road of night, carried him away. Virgil mentions in the fourth book of his Aeneid : [ 6 ]. Rutilius Claudius Namatianus mentions in his 5th century poem De reditu suo : [ 7 ]. Saffron Aurora had brought forward her fair-weather team: the breeze offshore tells us to haul the sail-yards up. Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet I. But all so soon as the all-cheering sun Should in the furthest east begin to draw The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, Away from the light steals home my heavy son One day I was a-musing down by the Courtown banks The sun shone bright and clearly, bold Neptune played a prank There was Flora at the helm and Aurora to the stern And all their gallant fine seamen, their course for to steer on.
In the poem "Let me not mar that perfect Dream" by Emily Dickinson :. From Tithon's bed now might Aurora rise, Her cheeks all glowing with celestial dies, While a pure stream of light o'erflows the skies. Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals From thy pure brows, and from thy shoulders pure, And bosom beating with a heart renewed. Thy cheek begins to redden through the gloom, Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine, Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise, And shake the darkness from their loosened manes, And beat the twilight into flakes of fire.
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Aurora Goddess sparkle A mountain shade suggests your shape I tumble down on my knees Fill my mouth with snow The way it melts I wish to melt into you.
