The Tragedies of Seneca / Translated into English Verse, to Which Have Been Appended Comparative Analyses of the Corresponding Greek and Roman Plays, and a Mythological Index

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Of death once more, the gloomy pools

Where sailed the dark infernal skiff?1950

Does Acheron's wan stream allow

To thee alone a backward way?

And after death has greedy fate

No hold upon thy dauntless soul?

Perchance thy way to hell was barred

By Pluto's self, who trembled sore

For his own realm? Upon the pyre1955

Of blazing woods I saw thee lie;