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    The Two Twilights
    The Two Twilights
    The Two Twilights
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    The Two Twilights

    By Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Two Twilights - Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Two Twilights, by Henry A. Beers

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      Title: The Two Twilights

      Author: Henry A. Beers

      Release Date: December 24, 2010 [EBook #34741]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TWO TWILIGHTS ***

      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 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;

      And you, Terpsichore, you long-legged quean.

      When I was young you used to come and stay,

      But, now that I grow older, 'tis well seen

      What tricks ye put upon me. Well-a-day!

      How many a summer evening have ye been

      Sitting about my door-step, fain to sing

      And tell old tales, while through the fragrant dark

      Burned the large planets, throbbed the brooding sound

      Of crickets and the tree-toads' ceaseless ring;

      And in the meads the fire-fly lit her spark

      Where from my threshold sank the vale profound.

      BLUE ROSES OF ACADEMUS

      So late and long the shadows lie

      Under the quadrangle wall:

      From such a narrow strip of sky

      So scant an hour the sunbeams fall,

      They hardly come to touch at all

      This cool, sequestered corner where,

      Beside the chapel belfry tall,

      I cultivate my small parterre.

      Poor, sickly blooms of Academe,

      Recluses of the college close,

      Whose nun-like pallor would beseem

      The violet better than the rose:

      There's not a bud among you blows

      With scent or hue to lure the bee:

      Only the thorn that on you grows—

      Only the thorn grows hardily.

      Pale cloisterers, have you lost so soon

      The way to blush? Do you forget

      How once, beneath the enamored moon,

      You climbed against the parapet,

      To touch the breast of Juliet

      Warm with a kiss, wet with a tear,

      In gardens of the Capulet,

      Far south, my flowers, not here—not here?

      THE WINDS OF DAWN

      Whither do ye blow?

      For now the moon is low.

      Whence is it that ye come,

      And where is it ye go?

      All night the air was still,

      The crickets' song was shrill;

      But now there runs a hum

      And rustling through the trees.

      A breath of coolness wakes,

      As on Canadian lakes,

      And on Atlantic seas,

      And each high Alpine lawn

      Begin the winds of dawn.

      ANACREONTIC

      I would not be

      A voyager on the windy seas:

      More sweet to me

      This bank where crickets chirp, and bees

      Buzz drowsy sunshine minstrelsies.

      I would

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