mythologyofthepoetandthemuse: lionofchaeronea: The Ghost of Darius Appears to Atossa, George Romney
mythologyofthepoetandthemuse: lionofchaeronea: The Ghost of Darius Appears to Atossa, George Romney (1734-1802) “Ye faithful Persians, honour’d now in age, Once the companions of my youth, what ills Afflict the state? The firm earth groans, it opes, Disclosing its vast deeps; and near my tomb I see my wife: this shakes my troubled soul With fearful apprehensions; yet her off'rings Pleased I receive. And you around my tomb Chanting the lofty strain, whose solemn air Draws forth the dead, with grief-attemper’d notes Mournfully call me: not with ease the way Leads to this upper air; and the stern gods, Prompt to admit, yield not a passage back But with reluctance: much with them my power Availing, with no tardy step I come. Say then, with what new ill doth Persia groan?“Ghost of Darius, The Persians by Aeschylus -- source link