CONTENTS

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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