Islands of the Blessed

American  

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. islands in the ocean at the remotest western end of the world, to which the souls of heroes and worthy persons were said to be transported after death.

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Islands of the Blessed British  

plural noun

1. Also called: Hesperides.  Greek myth lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death

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Example Sentences

Actually, Ialu was a forerunner of the Greek Islands of the Blessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When he came home empty-handed, heavy-hearted, lo! the spirit of Minnehaha had fled to the Islands of the Blessed.

From French Pathfinders in North America by Johnson, William Henry

The time was soon to come when he too could depart to the Islands of the Blessed, where the spirit of his wife awaited him.

From The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose by Hayman, Doris

Proteus informed Menelaus that he would be conveyed to the Islands of the Blessed, because he was the husband of Helen, and the son-in-law of Jupiter.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 by Walker, Aaron