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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TERNISSA, FR HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet's Biography
First Line: Ternissa! You are fled
Last Line: And your cool palm smooths down stern pluto's cheek.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Ternissa! You are fled
Last Line: And your cool palm smooths down stern pluto's cheek.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Ternissa! you are fled!
I say not to the dead,
But to the happy ones who rest below:
For, surely, surely, where
Your voice and graces are,
Nothing of death can any feel or know.
Girls who delight to dwell
Where grows most asphodel,
Gather to their calm breasts each word you speak:
The mild Persephone
Places you on her knee,
And your cool palm smooths down stern Pluto's cheek.
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