Living

Pentheus, by Maddening Furies Driven

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)

Living

Pentheus, by maddening Furies driven,
Saw, it is said, two suns in heaven,
And I believe it true;
I also see a double sun
Where calmer mortals see but one . .
My sun, my heaven . . in you.

MLA

Landor, Walter Savage. “Pentheus, by Maddening Furies Driven.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/572/.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “Pentheus, by Maddening Furies Driven.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/572/.

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