Chapter Page I [Prometheus] 13 II [Deucalion and Pyrrha] 25 III [Hermes (Mercury)] 33 IV [Phaëthon] 39 V [Orpheus] 49 VI [Atalanta] 53 VII [Tantalus] 57 VIII [Salmoneus, Sisyphus, Ixion, and Phlegyas] 61 IX [Niobe] 65 X [Bellerophon] 73 XI [Perseus] 77 XII [Cadmus] 83 XIII [Dionysus (Bacchus)] 89 XIV [Actæon] 95 XV [Dædalus and Icarus] 101 XVI [Philemon and Baucis] 109 XVII [Arachne] 115 XVIII [Hyacinthus] 121
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.—Great God! I’d rather be