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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Elysium

Elysian Fields. The Paradise or Happy Land of the Greek poets. Elysian (the adjective) means happy, delightful.

“O'er which were shadowy cast Elysian gleams.”

Thomson: Castle of Indolence, i.44.

Would take the prisoned soul,
And lap it in Elysium.

Milton: Comus, 261-2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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