Dirce
Dirce
Original Text
Walter Savage Landor, Gebir, Count Julian (1831).
2 With Dirce in one boat conveyed!
3Or Charon, seeing, may forget
4 That he is old and she a shade.
Notes
1] Dirce was put to death by the sons of Antiope, in revenge for her ill-treatment of their mother. Charon is the ferryman who carries the dead across the river Styx to Hades. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1831
RPO poem Editors
H. Kerpneck
RPO Edition
3RP 3.3.
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