Ida Slida

    Ay, but I meant not thee; I meant not her,
Whom all the pines of Ida shook to see
Slide from that quiet heaven of hers […] — from Tennyson’s “Lucretius” (1868)


Is Tennyson describing the descent of the goddess Cybele in the form of a meteorite on Mount Ida in Phrygia? I need to do more research.