prison-shades

Updated: May 18, 2025

My own impression is that these ladies were perfectly happy, that they had nothing of that maggior' dolore which we mortals know, and for which our joys have so often to pay. Let us hope so at any rate, for about a fairy or a growing boy conscious of the prison-shades could Poe have spun his horrors. "To the Greeks foolishness," I said in my haste; but in very truth it was far from being so.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - Lore of Proserpine