myrha

Updated: May 11, 2025

He was indifferent, let us say. Talking to Dr. Herrick was, somehow, like talking to a man in a fog. . . . Meanwhile, he wrote his verses to imaginary women to Corinna and Julia, to Myrha, Electra and Perilla those lovely, shadow women who never, in so far as we know, had any real existence " Sir Thomas smiled. "Of course. They are mere figments of the poet, pegs to hang rhymes on.

James Branch Cabell - The Certain Hour