Leda and the Swan  18251

Locations in Harold's Library

• Touched With Fire (book)
  • page 92
  • in "Songs of other lands"
• The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th edition) (book)
  • page 1200

This work has the following connections with other works:

• ‘A thinking woman sleeps with monsters’ • Rich's "The beak that grips her, she becomes" is reference to Yeats' Zeus and the rape of Leda ("the indifferent beak").

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