CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | [The Voice in the Night ] | 1 |
| II. | [The Spirit of the City ] | 18 |
| III. | [An Interlude of Enlightenment ] | 27 |
| IV. | [The World and the Woman ] | 33 |
| V. | [Between Blossom and Fruit ] | 48 |
| VI. | [The Two Voices ] | 58 |
| VII. | [The April of Love ] | 65 |
| VIII. | [Life's Iron Crown ] | 80 |
| IX. | [The Twilight of the Goddess ] | 86 |
| X. | [Broken Links ] | 93 |
| XI. | [The Stonier Uplands ] | 103 |
| XII. | [Eros the Reluctant ] | 111 |
| XIII. | [The Fettered Release ] | 120 |
| XIV. | [The Fire in the Clearing ] | 130 |
| XV. | [The Mill and Its Grist ] | 144 |
| XVI. | [Reinforcements ] | 157 |
| XVII. | [Ineffectual Flutters ] | 164 |
| XVIII. | [The Fulness of Life ] | 170 |
| XIX. | [Was Ever Poetess Thus Made? ] | 182 |
| XX. | [A Power Not Herself ] | 188 |
| XXI. | [The Signs of Blight ] | 192 |
| XXII. | [The Blot on the 'Scutcheon ] | 203 |
| XXIII. | [Tattered Colors ] | 212 |
| XXIV. | [Roses and Thorns ] | 224 |
| XXV. | [Tarnished Gold ] | 235 |
| XXVI. | [Autumn Sunlight ] | 241 |
| XXVII. | [The Scars of Slavery ] | 248 |
| XXVIII. | [The Altar of Eminence ] | 257 |
| XXIX. | [Desinat in Piscem, Mulier Formosa Superne ] | 269 |
| XXX. | [The World and the Man ] | 282 |