oneiros

Updated: June 22, 2025

Sometimes it is Hermes sandalled with down; sometimes it is wind-footed Iris, who is winged with the emerald plumes of the rainbow; and sometimes it is Oneiros, or a Dream, that glides down to earth, hooded and veiled, through the shadow of night, bearing the behests of Jove.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859