Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following periodicals in which certain of these poems have appeared: Poetry (Chicago), The Dial, Contact and The Bookman (New York), The Nation, The Sphere, The Anglo-French Review and The Egoist (London).
CONTENTS
| hymen | [7] |
| demeter | [15] |
| simaetha | [19] |
| thetis | [20] |
| circe | [21] |
| leda | [23] |
| hippolytus temporizes | [24] |
| cuckoo song | [25] |
| the islands | [27] |
| at baia | [30] |
| sea heroes | [31] |
| "not honey" | [33] |
| evadne | [34] |
| song | [35] |
| why have you sought | [36] |
| the whole white world | [37] |
| phaedra | [38] |
| she contrasts with herself hippolyta | [40] |
| she rebukes hippolyta | [42] |
| egypt | [44] |
| helios | [45] |
| prayer | [47] |
HYMEN
As from a temple service, tall and dignified, with slow pace, each a queen, the sixteen matrons from the temple of Hera pass before the curtain—a dark purple hung between Ionic columns—of the porch or open hall of a palace. Their hair is bound as the marble hair of the temple Hera. Each wears a crown or diadem of gold.
They sing—the music is temple music, deep, simple, chanting notes:
From the closed garden
Where our feet pace
Back and forth each day,
This gladiolus white,
This red, this purple spray—
Gladiolus tall with dignity
As yours, lady—we lay
Before your feet and pray: