The first eleven poems are from _Stances et Poèmes_. LES DANAÏDES, UN SONGE and LE RENDEZ VOUS are from _les Épreuves_; LA VOIE LACTÉE is from _les Solitudes_; REPENTIR, from _Impressions de la Guerre_ (1872;) CE QUI DURE, LES INFIDÈLES, LES AMOURS TERRESTRES and L'ALPHABET, from _les Vaines Tendresses_; and the last two sonnets, from _la Justice_. 255. LE LEVER DU SOLEIL. 5. _Hellade_, Hellas, country inhabited by the Hellenes, or Greeks, a name at first given to a district of Thessaly, later to all Greece. 257. LES DANAÏDES. The Danaïdes were the fifty daughters of Danaus, twin-brother of Aegyptus, whose fifty sons they married and then murdered. As a punishment they were condemned to pour water forever into a sieve. 2. _Théano_, _Callidie_, _Amymone_, _Agavé_ are names of four of the daughters. ALPHONSE DAUDET. 1840-1897. Though of world-wide fame as a brilliant novelist, he introduced himself to the public by a volume of verse, _les Amoureuses_, which contains many poems delicate in sentiment and exquisite in style. HENRI CAZALIS (JEAN LAHOR). 1840. The poems of Henri Cazalis, who has preferred to give his later works to the public under the nom de plume Jean Lahor, have the grave pessimism of Leconte de Lisle, but with more of buddhistic resignation. They are often sustained by a high moral fortitude, and though they are clothed in a less rich and brilliant garment than the poems of Leconte de Lisle, they have a charm of their own, "_inquiétant et pénétrant_," says Paul Bourget, "_comme celui des tableaux de Burne Jones et de la musique tzigane, des romans de Tolstoi et des_ lieder _de Heine_." Works: _Vita tristis_, 1865 (under the pseudonym Jean Caselli;) _Mélancholia_, 1866; _le Livre du néant_, 1872; _l'Illusion_, 1875; the preceding were collected in one volume and published under the name Jean Lahor and with the title _l'Illusion_, 1888; under the same name, _le Cantique des cantiques_, a translation of the Song of Solomon, 1885; _les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali_, 1896. For reference; J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. iv. CHARLES FRÉMINE. 1841. He holds an honorable place among the _poetae minores_ by poems distinguished for the sincerity and simple truth of their record of nature and humble experience. Works: _Floréal_, 1870; _Vieux Airs et Jeunes Chansons_. 1884; _Bouquet d'automne_, 1890. FRANÇOIS COPPÉE. 1842. He is especially the poet of the _vie des humbles_. His talent is not pre-eminently lyric, and he has tended to escape from the lyric domain in different directions, into the narrative poem, the drama, and the novel, in each of which he has achieved success. He is probably the most popular living French poet. Works: _Le Reliquaire_, 1866; _Intimités_, 1868; _Poèmes modernes_, 1869; _les Humbles_, 1872; _Promenades et intérieurs_, 1872; _le Cahier rouge_, 1874; _Olivier_, 1875; _l'Exilée_, 1876; _les Mois_, 1877; _Contes en vers et poésies diverses_, 1881 and 1887;