Dirce

By Walter Savage Landor

Stand close around, ye Stygian set,

With Dirce in one boat conveyed!

Or Charon, seeing, may forget

That he is old and she a shade.

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Dirce

By Walter Savage Landor

About this Poet

As a poet, Walter Savage Landor was best known for his classic epigrams and idylls. He was a seriously emulative classicist and wrote a significant proportion of his poetry in Latin, which was also the original language of some of the long and short poems...

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Region:
- England
School/Period:
- Romantic

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Dirce

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy

Child of a Day

Do you Remember me? or are you Proud?

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

Fæsulan Idyl

Dirce