Front matter
Reading edition
THE ANSWERING VOICE
ONE HUNDRED LOVE LYRICS BY WOMEN
SELECTED BY SARA TEASDALE
AUTHOR OF “RIVERS TO THE SEA,” “HELEN OF TROY, AND OTHER POEMS,” ETC.
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY SARA TEASDALE FILSINGER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1917
THE HAPPY LABOR
OF SELECTING THESE POEMS
I DEDICATE TO
MY SISTER
Ἔρος δαὔτέ μ᾽ ὀ λυσιμέλης δόνει γλυκύπικρον ἀμάχανον ὄρπετον.
“Ο gods, what love, what yearnings contributed to this.”