A Minor Poet And other Verse

by AMY LEVY CAMEO SERIES T.FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQ. LONDON E.C. MDCCCXCI.

Second Edition

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This volume is a reprint of that issued in 1884, with the addition of a sonnet and a translation, from a volume published in Cambridge in 1881, and now out of print.

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Contents.

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To a Dead Poet.

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A Minor Poet.

Xantippe. (A FRAGMENT.)

“Xantippe” has appeared in the University Magazine, and in a collection of Verse published at Cambridge.

Medea. (A FRAGMENT IN DRAMA FORM, AFTER EURIPIDES.)

Scene: Before Medea’s House.

[Enter Medea.]

Medea.

[Enter Ægeus and Nikias, on the opposite side. Medea steps back on the threshold and pauses.]

[The two citizens come forward.]

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

[Enter Jason. Medea reappears on the threshold.]

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Nikias.

[The two citizens withdraw, unperceived, to a further corner of the stage.]

Medea.

Jason.

Medea.

Jason.

Medea.

Jason.

Medea.

Jason.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Medea.

Nikias.

ÆGEUS.

Nikias.

Jason.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Medea.

Jason.

[Medea goes within. Jason moves off slowly. Ægeus and Nikias go off conferring in whispers.]

SCENE II.

[Time—After an interval; the evening of the same day. Scene—A street. A crowd of people running to and fro.]

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

Ægeus.

Nikias.

[Night; outside the city. Medea leaning against a rock.]

Sinfonia Eroica. (TO SYLVIA.)

To Sylvia.

A Greek Girl.

Magdalen.