Classics
The Songs of Bilitis: Contents
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 |
viii:1 See p. ii, "Translated from the Greek."