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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Islands of the Blessed

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We might have been the discoverers of an uninhabited bay in the Islands of the Blessed.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton

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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And these, when they are dead, shall give judgment in the meadow at the parting of the ways, whence the two roads lead, one to the Islands of the Blessed, and the other to Tartarus.

From Gorgias by Benjamin Jowett

Speak of it to all the people, That henceforward and forever 185They no more with lamentations Sadden the souls of the departed In the Islands of the Blessed.

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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