The title poem retells the Greek myth of the princess chained to a sea-cliff and the hero who frees her, written in long rolling hexameters. It is followed by shorter pieces: ballads such as “The Weird Lady” and “The Swan-Neck,” songs, and occasional verses like “The Poetry of a Root Crop.”
Kingsley’s verse at its most classical, for readers who know him from The Water-Babies and Westward Ho. Download the free EPUB.