Mythology & Folklore

Hecate

by Albert Giraud 1860–1929

Translated by Jethro Bithell (1911) · From Contemporary Belgian Poetry (1911)

Mythology & Folklore

The moon has a kiss that clings
Like those of cold women whom
Minions with fertile womb
Drive from the bed of Kings.

She weeps her white distress
On spires, and lays a sheet
Of suppliant light at the feet
Of crosses pitiless.

But breaks her prayer, which is vain,
And raises herself again,
In pale and barren pride;

And casts, with the cruel glance
Of her lidless eye, far and wide
Hysteric radiance.

MLA

Giraud, Albert. “Hecate.” Translated by Jethro Bithell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/albert-giraud/3/.

Chicago

Giraud, Albert. “Hecate.” Translated by Jethro Bithell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/albert-giraud/3/.

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