Laodamia

The 68th poem attempts to weave into one texture his own love of Lesbia, and the romance of Laodamia and Protesilaus.

Both Paris is there, and the adultress, the far-famed cause of guilt: and Laodamia, who attends her husband in death.

An oval face becomes a parting upon the unadorned head: Laodamia had her hair thus arranged.

In my own copy of Wordsworth I have been careful to mark the original reading in justice to the original Laodamia.

Permitted to return to life for a few hours to see his wife Laodamia.