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