Heavens and Earth
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STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1920
Copyright, 1920
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
GEORGE THEODORE ACHELIS
1897–1920
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ainslie’s Magazine , The Bowling Green , Books and the Book World , The Dial , The New Republic , Romance , Sun , The Sun Dial , The Yale Review and The Yale Literary Magazine for permission to reprint poems included in this volume.
Argument—Itys, nurtured by centaurs, meets and falls in love with Helen of Troy, before her marriage with Menelaus. What befell therefrom.
Stephen Vincent Benét
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CONTENTS
TWO VISIONS OF HELEN
THE FIRST VISION OF HELEN
THE LAST VISION OF HELEN
CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN
THE RETORT DISCOURTEOUS
TWO AT THE CROSSROADS
SIR JOHN RIMBECK TO THE PRINCESS OF ACRE
THREE DAYS’ RIDE
THE PLOW
I
II
III
THE TALL TOWN
COLLOQUY OF THE STATUES
LUNCH-TIME ALONG BROADWAY
THE WALKERS
8:30 A. M. ON 32ND STREET
CHANSON AT MADISON SQUARE
HYMN IN COLUMBUS CIRCLE
APPLES OF EDEN
THE ETCHER
GRAND LARCENY
NOVEMBER PROTHALAMION
EXPRESSIONS NEAR THE END OF WINTER
LOST LIGHTS
COME BACK!
RESURRECTION
FLOOD-TIDE
THE SONG OF COLD AND PAIN
WISDOM-TEETH
THE KINGDOM OF THE MAD
THE ORIGINAL IMPULSE
LUNCH AT A CITY CLUB
THE KNOCKOUT
DEVOURER OF NATIONS
ABRAHAM’S BOSOM
PROHIBITION
MORTUARY PARLORS
TALK
NEARSIGHT
BEFORE MICHAEL’S LAST FIGHT
ALWAYS THE SONNETTEER
PORTRAIT OF YOUNG LOVE
TWO MORE MUSES
OPERATION
THE TRAPEZE PERFORMER
EPITAPH TO BE SPOKEN
JUDGMENT
BOARDING-HOUSE HALL
BLOOD BROTHERS
WATCHMEN
“LES CRUCHES CASSÉES”
P. P. C.—MADAM LIFE
POSITIVELY THE LAST PERFORMANCE!
