Chapter I: Front Matter

THE POETICAL WORKS OF
MR. LEWIS MORRIS.

I.
SONGS OF TWO WORLDS. With Portrait.
Eleventh Edition, price 5_s._
II.
THE EPIC OF HADES. With an Autotype
Illustration, Nineteenth Edition, price 5_s._
III.
GWEN and THE ODE OF LIFE. With
Frontispiece. Sixth Edition, price 5_s._

THE EPIC OF HADES. Third Illustrated
Edition. With Sixteen Autotype Plates after the
Drawings by the late GEORGE R. CHAPMAN, 4to,
cloth extra, gilt edges, price 21_s._

THE EPIC OF HADES. The Presentation
Edition. 4to, cloth extra, price 10_s._ 6_d._

SONGS UNSUNG. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo,
cloth, 6_s._

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF
LEWIS MORRIS

_VOLUME TWO_

THE EPIC OF HADES

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1885

THE EPIC OF HADES

IN THREE BOOKS

BY

LEWIS MORRIS

M.A.; HONORARY FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD
KNIGHT OF THE REDEEMER OF GREECE, ETC., ETC.

"DIFFICILE EST PROPRIE COMMUNIA DICERE"

NINETEENTH EDITION.

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1885

"The three excellences of Poetry: simplicity of language,
simplicity of subject, and simplicity of invention"--
_The Welsh Triads_.

(_The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved._)

TO ALL

WHO LOVE THE LITERATURE OF GREECE

THIS POEM IS DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

TARTARUS.

PAGE
TANTALUS 7

PHAEDRA 23

SISYPHUS 40

CLYTAEMNESTRA 55

BOOK II.

HADES.

MARSYAS 82

ANDROMEDA 95

ACTAEON 110

HELEN 120

EURYDICE 145

ORPHEUS 150

DEIANEIRA 154

LAOCOON 166

NARCISSUS 175

MEDUSA 188

ADONIS 198

PERSEPHONE 202

ENDYMION 211

PSYCHE 219

BOOK III.

OLYMPUS.

ARTEMIS 237

HERAKLES 244

APHRODITE 248

ATHENE 255

HERE 261

APOLLO 267

ZEUS 273