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'Round the Year in Myth and Song

'Round the Year in Myth and Song

by Florence Holbrook

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Author
Holbrook, Florence, 1860-1932
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
PE: Language and Literatures: English
Subject
Seasons
Category
Text
eBook-No.
44765
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44765
Release Date
January 26, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.’ROUND THE YEAR IN MYTH AND SONG
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.PERSONS AND PLACES MENTIONED.
  5. 5.’ROUND THE YEAR.
  6. 6.THE SEASONS.
  7. 7.WORSHIP OF NATURE.
  8. 8.HOW THE MYTHS AROSE.
  9. 9.THE MONTHS.—WINTER.
  10. 10.THE VOICE OF SPRING.
  11. 11.THE MONTHS.—SPRING.
  12. 12.ON MAY MORNING.
  13. 13.THE CHILD’S WISH IN JUNE.
  14. 14.THE MONTHS.—SUMMER.
  15. 15.AUTUMN.
  16. 16.THE MONTHS.—AUTUMN.
  17. 17.THE OLD YEAR.
  18. 18.THE HOLIDAYS OF THE YEAR.
  19. 19.THE DAYS OF THE WEEK.
  20. 20.ODE.
  21. 21.CERES.
  22. 22.TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN.
  23. 23.CERES AND PERSEPHONE.
  24. 24.ARBUTUS ASLEEP.
  25. 25.THE SEARCH OF CERES.
  26. 26.WAITING.
  27. 27.APOLLO.
  28. 28.HARK! HARK! THE LARK.
  29. 29.DIANA.
  30. 30.LADY MOON.
  31. 31.THE PLEIADES.
  32. 32.THE STARS.
  33. 33.AURORA.
  34. 34.DAYBREAK.
  35. 35.AURORA AND TITHONUS.
  36. 36.ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET.
  37. 37.AURORA AND MEMNON.
  38. 38.A WALK AT SUNSET.
  39. 39.THE NYMPHS AND OTHER GODDESSES.
  40. 40.GIVE.
  41. 41.APOLLO AND THE MUSES.
  42. 42.THE DESCENT OF THE MUSES.
  43. 43.APOLLO AND DAPHNE.
  44. 44.FORGET-ME-NOT.
  45. 45.CLYTIE.
  46. 46.THE DAISY.
  47. 47.NIOBE.
  48. 48.APOLLO.
  49. 49.JUPITER.
  50. 50.ABOU BEN ADHEM.
  51. 51.NEPTUNE.
  52. 52.NEPTUNE.
  53. 53.VULCAN.
  54. 54.WORK.
  55. 55.VENUS.
  56. 56.HER FACE.
  57. 57.CUPID AND PSYCHE.
  58. 58.LOVE.
  59. 59.PSYCHE AND VENUS.
  60. 60.LONGING.
  61. 61.ST. VALENTINE’S DAY.
  62. 62.WHAT MARCH DOES.
  63. 63.PHAËTHON.
  64. 64.WINGS.
  65. 65.MERCURY.
  66. 66.THE FINDING OF THE LYRE.
  67. 67.ÆOLUS.
  68. 68.ÆOLUS AND ULYSSES.
  69. 69.THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.
  70. 70.THE WIND TOWER.
  71. 71.MUDJEKEEWIS.
  72. 72.WABUN.
  73. 73.SHAWONDASEE.
  74. 74.LITTLE DANDELION.
  75. 75.KABIBONOKKA.
  76. 76.WHAT THE WINDS BRING.
  77. 77.IRIS.
  78. 78.THE RAINBOW.
  79. 79.RAINBOW STORIES.
  80. 80.THE RAINBOW FAIRIES.
  81. 81.NARCISSUS.
  82. 82.THE BROOK.
  83. 83.ECHO AND NARCISSUS.
  84. 84.BLUE.
  85. 85.MINERVA.
  86. 86.MINERVA AND ARACHNE.
  87. 87.MINERVA’S WEAVING.
  88. 88.PROMETHEUS.
  89. 89.HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD.
  90. 90.ADONIS.
  91. 91.ORIGIN OF THE OPAL.
  92. 92.THE APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES.
  93. 93.CLEON AND I.
  94. 94.PANDORA.
  95. 95.THE GLADNESS OF NATURE.
  96. 96.HEBE AND GANYMEDE.
  97. 97.MAY.
  98. 98.VESTA.
  99. 99.SWEET AND LOW.
  100. 100.THE ORIGIN OF THE MOSS ROSE.
  101. 101.THE MOSS ROSE.
  102. 102.ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE.
  103. 103.THE CHILD’S WORLD.
  104. 104.ARION.
  105. 105.JUNE.

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