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Tennyson’s “Ganymede”

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Tennyson’s “Ganymede”

Tennyson’s Ganymede is depicted upon the back of an eagle, the form taken by Jupiter when he brought the boy from his earthly home to be the cupbearer of the gods. The lines referred to are from Tennyson’s “The Palace of Art.”