On a Grey Thread

by Elsa Gidlow

51 chapters1h 15mEnglish1923

About this book

On a Grey Thread was first published in 1923, one of the first books of openly lesbian love poetry to be published in the United States. Her early verse is concise and highly original. (Newgatenovelist)

Chapters (51)

1The Grey Thread

118

2Youth

113

3World Cry

4Hope

125

5Life's Leaders

157

6Market Maze

7Grain and Grapes

116

8Oversoul

104

9Come and Lie With Me

10Futility

170

11Roots

12I Must Be Far

13Ecstasy

168

14Youth Insatiate

112

15Disillusionment

16The Hole in My Curtain

134

17Despair

18Declaration

19The Poet

20Love's Acolyte

21From the Top of the World

105

22Episode

23Experience

24This is Not Love

25A Happy Song

26As Usual

27The Artist

144

28Sudden Friendship

29Love Song

30Late Autumn Afternoon

31Philosophy

32You Are Not She

33Love Sleep

34When Love Becomes a Stranger

35Of a Certain Friendship

36Constancy

37Mnasidika

38A Friend Departs

39I, Lover

109

40Relinquishment

114

41The Face in the Rain

42Grey Skies

43Chant of Spring

44Dawn

45Poppy Song

46To a Young Dancing Girl

100

47Chance

101

48Loneliness

49Before Sleep

50A Thought

51Epilogue

On a Grey Thread

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