Category: Novels
Tho’ the story of Eros and Psyche is alluded to by various earlier writers, our only source for its details is, I believe, in that animated and amusing romance, the _Golden Ass_ of Apuleius; where it occurs as an Episode, and where it is told at considerable length and with el...
Tho’ the story of Eros and Psyche is alluded to by various earlier writers, our only source for its details is, I believe, in that animated and amusing romance, the _Golden Ass_...
2. Part 2Long hours she lay. But at last, when it was quite dark, there came that well-known murmuring sound and sweet wafted air as of wings, and in a moment as usual the unknown One la...
3. Part 3But Eros, flying swiftly to the very throne of Zeus, put the whole case before him, and begged his aid, for the girl and himself, against the wrath of Aphrodite. And Zeus, havin...
4. Part 4And yet, o’er all, the One through many seen, The phantom Presence moving without fail, Sweet sense of closelinked life and passion keen As of the grass waving before the gale.
5. Part 5Yea, now I call to Love that is in thee, And cry, as one that sees her shadow pass And the lamp flash, waiting without the house For his fair one at the window: O come forth, Th...