The Two Twilights

The Two Twilights

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. 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 Passagres On a Miniature Im Schwarzwald Waiting for Winter [Greek: T Pan] The Singer of One Song Posthumous Hugh Latimer Caramon 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 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. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 34741
Author: Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Release Date: Dec 24, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English