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The Songs of Bilitis

156 entries · 5 sections

by Pierre Louÿs

Start Reading essay on Sappho Contents The Life Of Bilitis

I. Bucolics In Pamphylia

I. Bucolics In Pamphylia The Tree Pastoral Song Maternal Counsel Bare Feet The Old Man and the Nymphs Song Pedestrian Awakening Rain Flowers Impatience Comparisons The Stream in the Wood Phitta Meliai The Symbolic Ring Moonlight Dances Little Children Stories Her Friend, Married Confidences The Moon with Blue Eyes Song Lykas Offering to the Goddess The Accommodating Friend Prayer to Persephone Game of Dice The Distaff The Flute Tresses The Goblet Roses in the Night Regrets Interrupted Sleep To the Washerwomen Song Bilitis The Cottage The Lost Letter Song The Vow Night Cradle Song The Tomb of the Naïads

II. Elegies At Mytilene

II. Elegies At Mytilene To the Ship Psappha The Dance of Glottis and Kyse Counsels Incertitude Meeting The Little Clay Astarte Desire The Wedding The Living Past Metamorphosis The Nameless Tomb Mnasidika's Three Beauties The Grotto of the Nymphs Mnasidika's Breasts The Doll Tenderness Games Shadowlight The Sleeper The Kiss Jealous Cares The Mad Embrace The Heart Night Words Absence Love Purification Mnasidika's Lullaby Sea-Side Promenade The Object Evening by the Fire Prayers Eyes Cosmetics Mnasidika's Silence Scene Waiting Solitude Letter Attempt Effort To Gyrinno Last Attempt Rending Memory The Wax Doll Funeral Chant

III. Epigrams in the Isle of Cyprus

III. Epigrams in the Isle of Cyprus Hymn to Astarte Hymn to the Night The Maenads The Sea of Kypris The Priestesses of Astarte The Mysteries Egyptian Courtesans I Sing my Flesh and my Life Perfumes Conversation The Torn Dress Jewels The Impartial One Clear Water of the Basin Desire The Inn Domesticity The Bath To Her Breasts Mydzouris The Triumph of Bilitis To the Wooden God Dancer with Castanets The Flute Player The Warm Girdle To a Happy Husband To One Who Has Strayed Intimacies The Command The Masque of Pasiphaë The Juggleress The Flower Dance Violence Song Advice to a Lover Friends for Dinner The Tomb of a Young Courtesan The Little Flower-Vendor Dispute Melancholy Little Phanion Information The Vendor of Women Stranger Memory of Mnasidika Young Mother The Unknown Trickery The Last Lover The Dove Morning Rain True Death

The Tomb of Bilitis

The Tomb of Bilitis First Epitaph Second Epitaph Last Epitaph Bibliography Translator's Notes