This is a volume of poems by American poet Henry Augustin Beers. Born in Buffalo, NY, Beers later became a Professor of English literature at Yale University. The poems of this volume were published late in his life, and are of varied nature, addressing different themes and using different styles. - Summary by Carolin
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The Thankless Muse
01:02 - Chapter 2
Blue Roses of Academus
01:21 - Chapter 3
The Winds of Dawn
01:06 - Chapter 4
Anacreontic
01:13 - Chapter 5
Bumble Bee
02:20 - Chapter 6
Water Lilies at Sunset
02:15 - Chapter 7
Between the Flowers
04:28 - Chapter 8
As You Like It
03:19 - Chapter 9
The Old City
02:05 - Chapter 10
Amethysts
01:30 - Chapter 11
Katy Did
01:38 - Chapter 12
Narcissus
06:39 - Chapter 13
Nunc Dimittis
01:53 - Chapter 14
Beaver Pond Meadow
05:04 - Chapter 15
High Island
01:43 - Chapter 16
Lotus Eating
02:25 - Chapter 17
The Mermaid's Glass
05:26 - Chapter 18
A Holiday Eclogue
03:21 - Chapter 19
A Memory
02:01 - Chapter 20
Amours Passagères
01:25 - Chapter 21
On a Miniature
02:05 - Chapter 22
Im Schwarzwald
02:52 - Chapter 23
Waiting for Winter
01:18 - Chapter 24
Greek: Tò Pan
01:23 - Chapter 25
The Singer of One Song
01:34 - Chapter 26
Posthumous
03:00 - Chapter 27
Hugh Latimer
01:04 - Chapter 28
Carçamon
03:08 - Chapter 29
Ecce in Deserto
02:42 - Chapter 30
To Imogen at the Harp
05:35 - Chapter 31
The Ideas of the Pure Reason
02:37 - Chapter 32
On Guard
02:42 - Chapter 33
Sursum Corda
02:13 - Chapter 34
Love, Death and Life
02:34 - Chapter 35
The Dying Pantheist to the Priest
02:25 - Chapter 36
The Upland
02:40 - Chapter 37
The Remainder
01:52 - Chapter 38
The Pasture Bars
02:25 - Chapter 39
The Rising of the Curtain
03:09