Spells and Philtres

Books Publications Index

Arkham House, US: (1958)

54pp, 519 copies, black cloth.

Table of Contents:

• Didus ineptus
• Thebaid
• Secret Love
• The Pagan
• Tired Gardener
• Nada
• High Surf
• The Centaur
• Said the Dreamer
• The Nameless Wraith
• The Blindness of Orion
• Jungle Twilight
• The Phoenix
• The Prophet Speaks
• Farewell to Eros
• Alternative
• Only to One Returned
• Anteros
• No Stranger Dream
• Do You Forget, Enchantress?
• Necromancy
• Dialogue
• October
• Tolometh
• Disillusionment
• Almost Anything
• Parnassus À La Mode

Distillations (Haiku)

• Fence And Wall
• Growth of Lichen
• Cats in Winter Sunlight
• Abandoned Plum-Orchard
• Harvest Evening
• Willow-Cutting in Autumn
• Late Pear-Pruner
• Geese in the Spring Night
• The Sparrow's Nest
• The Last Apricot

Strange Miniatures

• Unicorn
• Untold Arabian Fable
• A Hunter Meets the Martichoras
• The Sciapod
• The Monacle
• Feast of St. Anthony
• Paphnutius
• Philtre
• Perseus And Medusa

Quintrains

• Attar of the Past
• Passing of An Elder God
• Nightmare of the Lilliputian
• Mithridates
• Quiddity

Translations

• "That Motley Drama"
• Where? (Rimas XXXVIII)
• Ecclesiastes (L’Ecclésiaste)
• Song of Autumn (LVII. Chant d’automne)
• Lethe (I)
• The Metamorphoses of the Vampire (VI. Les Métamorphoses du Vampire)
• Epigrams and Apothegms

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