earth-forgetting

Updated: May 11, 2025

And never is this calm deeper than when he refers to Death. "For there" he says, speaking of that Cemetery at Firenze where his Thyrsis lies; "For there thine earth-forgetting eyelids keep The morningless and unawakening sleep, Under the flowery Oleanders pale "

John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions