Love

Ternissa! You Are Fled!

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

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LoveDeath & Dying

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.

MLA

Landor, Walter Savage. “Ternissa! You Are Fled!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/12/.

Chicago

Landor, Walter Savage. “Ternissa! You Are Fled!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/12/.

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