"Elysian Fields" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I walked over those golden fields to-night it seemed as if there were spirits all around me—glorious, bright spirits of the dead—invisible, intangible, like rays of pure light, in the clear atmosphere of those Elysian fields. I cannot but believe that there arise from the secret parts of this beautiful earth, at dawn of day and at eventide, other voices besides the ineffable songs of birds, the rustling murmurs that whisper in the woods, and ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs
... Minos, AEacus and Rhadamanthus, the three judges of Hades, whose duty it was to punish the guilty by casting them into a dismal gulf, Tartarus, whence none might ever emerge, and to reward the innocent by transporting them to the Elysian Fields where delight followed delight in ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various |
