



Produced by Al Haines










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 Passageres
  On a Miniature
  Im Schwarzwald
  Waiting for Winter
  [Greek: To Pan]
  The Singer of One Song
  Posthumous
  Hugh Latimer
  Carcamon
  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