Produced by Chuck Greif, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: _The Cameo Series_] A Minor Poet [Illustration: portrait of Amy Levy] A Minor Poet And other Verse by AMY LEVY CAMEO SERIES T.FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQ. LONDON E.C. MDCCCXCI. [Illustration: text decoration] _Second Edition_ This volume is a reprint of that issued in 1884, with the addition of a sonnet and a translation, from a volume published in Cambridge in 1881, and now out of print. [Illustration: text decoration] _Contents._ [Illustration: text decoration] PAGE _To a Dead Poet_ 11 A MINOR POET 13 XANTIPPE 23 MEDEA 35 SINFONIA EROICA 58 TO SYLVIA 60 A GREEK GIRL 62 MAGDALEN 65 CHRISTOPHER FOUND 69 A DIRGE 74 THE SICK MAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE 76 TO DEATH 77 A JUNE-TIDE ECHO 78 TO LALLIE 80 IN A MINOR KEY 83 A FAREWELL 86 A CROSS-ROAD EPITAPH 87 EPITAPH 88 SONNET 89 TRANSLATED FROM GEIBEL 90 [Illustration: text decoration] _To a Dead Poet._ _I knew not if to laugh or weep;_ _They sat and talked of you--_ _“’Twas here he sat; ’twas this he said!_ _’Twas that he used to do._ _“Here is the book wherein he read,_ _The room, wherein he dwelt;_ _And he” (they said) “was such a man,_ _Such things he thought and felt.”_