Mythology & Folklore
The Death of Orestes
From The Hellenics (1859)
Mythology & Folklore
ORESTES.
A calm comes over me: life brings it not
With any of its tides: my end is near.
O Priestess of the purifying God
Receive her!" and when she hath closed mine eyes,
Do thou (weep not, my father's child!) close hers.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Death of Orestes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/132/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Death of Orestes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/132/.
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