| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | The Death of Artemidora | | By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | ‘ARTEMIDORA! 1 Gods invisible, | |
| While thou art lying faint along the couch, | |
| Have tied the sandal to thy veinèd feet | |
| And stand beside thee, ready to convey | |
| Thy weary steps where other rivers flow. | 5 |
| Refreshing shades will waft thy weariness | |
| Away, and voices like thine own come nigh | |
| And nearer, and solicit an embrace.’ | |
| Artemidora sigh’d, and would have pressed | |
| The hand now pressing hers, but was too weak. | 10 |
| Iris stood over her dark hair unseen | |
| While thus Elpenor spake. He looked into | |
| Eyes that had given light and life erewhile | |
| To those above them, but now dim with tears | |
| And wakefulness. Again he spake of joy | 15 |
| Eternal. At that word, that sad word, joy, | |
| Faithful and fond her bosom heav’d once more: | |
| Her head fell back; and now a loud deep sob | |
| Swell’d thro’ the darken’d chamber; ’twas not hers. | |
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