A Hymn in Honour of Death
The Garden of Proserpine’ by Algernon Charles Swinburne (published in his collection of Poems and Ballads in 1866), is an exquisite poem based on a tale of Greek mythology. Proserpine (the Latin spelling of Persephone) is the daughter of Ceres and the wife of Pluto, the ruler of the underworld. She... Sign in to see full entry.