A poem for Iphigenia´s feelings at the moment of sacrifice

Iphigenia. From udel.edu

The sacrifice of Iphigenia. By Felice Torelli. Google images

Tennyson, in his ¨Dream of Fair Women,¨makes Iphigenia thus describe her feelings at the moment of sacrifice:

¨I was cut off from hope in that sad place,

Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears;

My father held his hand upon his face;

I, blinded by my tears,

¨Still strove to speak; my voice was thick with sighs,

As in a dream. Dimly I could descry

The stern black.bearded kings, with wolfish eyes,

waiting to see me die.

¨The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat,

The temples and the people and the shore;

One drew a shapr knife through my tender throat

Slowly, -and- nothing more.¨

REFERENCE:
Bulfinch´s Mythology. By Thomas Bulfinch. P. 214. Avenel, USA, 1978