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p. viii

The Table of Contents has been moved to the front of this etext. In the original book it was at the end, following the Translator's Notes.--JBH

Life of Bilitis	13-20
BUCOLICS IN PAMPHYLIA
The Tree	22
Pastoral Song	23
Maternal Counsel	24
Bare Feet	25
The Old Man and the Nymphs	26
Song (Torti-tortue)	27
Pedestrian	28
Awakening	29
Rain	30
Flowers	31
Impatience	32
Comparisons	33
The Stream in the Wood	34
Phitta Meliai	35
The Symbolic Ring	36
Moonlight Dances	37
Little Children	38
Stories	39
Her Friend, Married	40
Confidences	41
The Moon with Blue Eyes	42
Reflections (not translated) ¹
Song (Shades of the Wood)	43
Lykas	44
Offering to the Goddess	45
The Accommodating Friend	46
Prayer to Persephone	47
Game of Dice	48
The Distaff	49
p. ix
The Flute	51
Tresses	52
The Goblet	53
Roses in the Night	54
Regrets	55
Interrupted Sleep	56
To the Washerwomen	57
Song (When He Came Back)	58
Bilitis	59
The Cottage	60
Joy (not translated)
The Lost Letter	61
Song (The Night Is So Deep)	62
The Vow	63
Night	64
Cradle Song	65
The Tomb of the Naïads	66
ELEGIES AT MYTILENE
To the Ship	68
Psappha	69
The Dance of Glottis and Kyse	70
Counsels	71
Incertitude	72
Meeting	73
The Little Clay Astarte	74
Desire	75
The Wedding	76
The Bed (not translated)
The Living Past	77
Metamorphosis	78
The Nameless Tomb	79
Mnasidika's Three Beauties	80
The Grotto of the Nymphs	81
Mnasidika's Breasts	83
Contemplation (not translated)
The Doll	84
Tenderness	85
Games	86
Episode (not translated)
p. x
Shadowlight	87
The Sleeper	88
The Kiss	89
Jealous Cares	90
The Mad Embrace	91
Retaken (not translated)
The Heart	92
Night Words	93
Absence	94
Love	95
Purification	96
Mnasidika's Lullaby	98
Sea-Side Promenade	99
The Object	100
Evening by the Fire	101
Prayers	102
Eyes	103
Cosmetics	104
Mnasidika's Silence	105
Scene	106
Waiting	107
Solitude	108
Letter	109
Attempt	110
Effort	111
Myrrhina (not translated)
To Gyrinno	112
Last Attempt	113
Rending Memory	114
The Wax Doll	115
Funeral Chant	116
EPIGRAMS IN THE ISLE OF CYPRUS
Hymn to Astarte	118
Hymn to the Night	119
The Maenads	120
The Sea of Kypris	121
The Priestesses of Astarte	123
The Mysteries	124
Egyptian Courtesans	125
p. xi
I Sing My Flesh and My Life	126
Perfumes	127
Conversation	128
The Tom Dress	129
Jewels	130
The Impartial One	131
Clear Water of the Basin	132
Night Festival (not translated)
Desire	134
The Inn	135
Domesticity	136
The Bath	137
To Her Breasts	138
Liberty (not translated)
Mydzouris	139
The Triumph of Bilitis	140
To the Wooden God	141
Dancer with Castanets	142
The Flute Player	143
The Warm Girdle	144
To a Happy Husband	145
To One Who Has Strayed	146
Intimacies	147
The Command	148
The Masque of Pasiphaë	149
The Juggleress	151
The Flower Dance	152
Satyra's Dance (not translated)
Mydzouris Crowned (not translated)
Violence	154
Song (The First One)	155
Advice to a Lover	156
Friends for Dinner	157
The Tomb of a Young Courtesan	158
The Little Flower-Vendor	159
Dispute	160
Melancholy	161
Little Phanion	162
Information	163
The Vendor of Women	164
p. xii
Stranger	166
Phyllis (not translated)
Memory of Mnasidika	167
Young Mother	168
The Unknown	169
Trickery	170
The Last Lover	171
The Dove	172
Morning Rain	173
True Death	175
THE TOMB OF BILITIS
First Epitaph	178
Second Epitaph	179
Last Epitaph	180
Bibliography	i
Notes	ii-vii
Contents	^viii-xii

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viii:1 See p. ii, "Translated from the Greek."

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