THE TWO TWILIGHTS

BY

HENRY A. BEERS

BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER

TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED

Copyright 1917 by Henry A. Beers
All Rights Reserved


Made in the United States of America
The Gorham Press, Boston, U.S.A.

PREFACE

The contents of this volume include selections from two early books of verse, long out of print; a few pieces from The Ways of Yale (Henry Holt & Co); and a handful of poems contributed of late years to the magazines and not heretofore collected.

For permission to use copyrighted material my thanks are due to Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., and to the publishers of Harper's Monthly Magazine and of the Yale Review.

HENRY A. BEERS.

CONTENTS

The Thankless Muse
Blue Roses of Academus
The Winds of Dawn
Anacreontic
Bumble Bee
Water Lilies at Sunset
Between the Flowers
As You Like It
The Old City
Amethysts
Katy Did
Narcissus
Nunc Dimittis
Beaver Pond Meadow
High Island
Lotus Eating
The Mermaid's Glass
A Holiday Eclogue
A Memory
Amours Passagères
On a Miniature
Im Schwarzwald
Waiting for Winter
[Greek: Tò Pan]
The Singer of One Song
Posthumous
Hugh Latimer
Carçamon
Ecce in Deserto
To Imogen at the Harp
The Ideas of the Pure Reason
On Guard
Sursum Corda
Love, Death and Life
The Dying Pantheist to the Priest
The Upland
The Remainder
The Pasture Bars
The Rising of the Curtain

THE TWO TWILIGHTS

THE THANKLESS MUSE

The muses ring my bell and run away.
I spy you, rogues, behind the evergreen:
You, wild Thalia, romper in the hay;