. One of Cleopatra's nights, and other fantastic romances . B!i!iiHiiiii!i;»Hiiiniiitiiii!iiiiiiiHiiniH!iiiiii)nniimiinmniiiniiiimniiiiini»iiiiiinrmHiii. PUBLI5MED BY BRE/HTAMOS AT UMIOM SQUARE, A\EW YORK 1910 X Copyright, 1890, byWORTHINGTON CO. Copyright, 1899, byBRENT ANOS CONTENTS PAGE To THE Reader ....... ix One of Cleopatras Nights .... 3 Clarimonde 81 Akria Marcella . 153 The Mummys Foot 221 Omphale : A Rococo Story .... 249 King Candaules 273 Addenda 383 The love that caught strange light fromdeaths own eyes. And filled deaths lips with fiery words , half asleep, let feed
. One of Cleopatra's nights, and other fantastic romances . B!i!iiHiiiii!i;»Hiiiniiitiiii!iiiiiiiHiiniH!iiiiii)nniimiinmniiiniiiimniiiiini»iiiiiinrmHiii. PUBLI5MED BY BRE/HTAMOS AT UMIOM SQUARE, A\EW YORK 1910 X Copyright, 1890, byWORTHINGTON CO. Copyright, 1899, byBRENT ANOS CONTENTS PAGE To THE Reader ....... ix One of Cleopatras Nights .... 3 Clarimonde 81 Akria Marcella . 153 The Mummys Foot 221 Omphale : A Rococo Story .... 249 King Candaules 273 Addenda 383 The love that caught strange light fromdeaths own eyes. And filled deaths lips with fiery words , half asleep, let feed from veins of his Her close, red, warm snakes-mouth, Egyp-tian-wise : And that great night of love more strange than she that made the whole worlds baleand blissMade king of the whole worlds desirea slaveAnd killed him in mid-kingdom with a kiss. Swinburne. Memorial verses on the death of Th/ophile Cautier, TO THE READER The stories composing this volume havebeen selected for translation from the twovolumes of romances and tales by ThdophileGautier respectively entitled Nouvelles andRomans et Contes. They afford in the orig-inal many exccu31924027272453
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