Temptresses

by Stanley Grill (b. 1953)

1. Niobe Now
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Niobe/ wild
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2. Daphne
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Why do you follow me? 
Any moment I can be 
Nothing but a laurel-tree.

Any moment of the chase
I can leave you in my place
A pink bough for your embrace.

Yet if over hill and hollow 
Still it is your will to follow, 
I am off; --to heel, Apollo!

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3. Hecate
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I am the virgin the woman
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4. Iphigenia
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Iphigenia, led to sacrifice
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5. Cassandra
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To me, one silly task is like another.
I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride.
This flesh will never give a child its mother,--
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, 
And madness chooses out my voice again,
Again. I am the chosen no hand saves:
The shrieking heaven lifted over men,
Not the dumb earth, wherein they set their graves.

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6. Siren Song
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This is the one song everyone
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