Leda Author:Aldous Huxley A collection of poetry including the poems Leda, The Birth of God, Sympathy, Jonah, A Sunset, Life and Art, Beauty, On Hampstead Heath, and many more. "BROWN and bright as an agate, mountain-cool, Eurotas singing slips from pool to pool; Down rocky gullies; through the cavernous pines And chestnut groves; down where the terraced vines And garde... more »ns overhang; through valleys grey With olive trees, into a soundless bay Of the Ęgean. Silent and asleep Lie those pools now: but where they dream most deep, Men sometimes see ripples of shining hair And the young grace of bodies pale and bare, Shimmering far down?the ghosts these mirrors hold."« less