"Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief."
36. COLD CROWN'D SNAKE. "Cold crown'd" is not a compound epithet,
meaning "with a cold head." Each adjective marks a particular quality.
_Crown'd_ has reference to the semblance of a coronet that the hoods of
certain snakes, such as cobras, possess.
37. THE DAUGHTER OF A RIVER-GOD. Oenone was the daughter of the river
Cebrenus in Phrygia.
39-40. AS YONDER WALLS--BREATHED. The walls of Troy were built by
Poseidon (Neptune) and Apollo, whom Jupiter had condemned to serve King
Laomedon of Troas for a year. The stones were charmed into their places
by the breathing of Apollo's flute, as the walls of Thebes are said to
have risen to the strain of Amphion's lyre. Compare _Tithonus_, 62-63:
"Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing,
When Ilion, like a mist, rose into towers."
And cf. also _The Princess_, iii. 326.
42-43. THAT--WOE. Compare _In Memoriam_, V.
50. WHITE HOOVED. Cf. "hooves" for hoofs, in the _Lady of Shalott_, l.
101.