APRIL TWILIGHTS AND OTHER POEMS

BY WILLA CATHER ALFRED A KNOPF NEW YORK · MCMXXIII

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COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc. Published, April, 1923 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA {5} To my Father for a Valentine

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THE verses in Part I of this volume are reprinted from an early volume, April Twilights, published in 1903. Those in Part II are of later composition, and for permission to republish them I am indebted to the editors of Scribner’s Magazine, McClure’s Magazine, and the Century Magazine.

Willa Cather

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APRIL TWILIGHTS AND OTHER POEMS

“GRANDMITHER, THINK NOT I FORGET”

FIDES, SPES

THE TAVERN

THE HAWTHORN TREE

THE POOR MINSTREL

ANTINOUS

LONDON ROSES

WINTER AT DELPHI

PARADOX

IN MEDIA VITA

EVENING SONG

LAMENT FOR MARSYAS

“I SOUGHT THE WOOD IN WINTER”

“SLEEP, MINSTREL, SLEEP”

IN ROSE-TIME

POPPIES ON LUDLOW CASTLE

PRAIRIE DAWN

AFTERMATH

THOU ART THE PEARL

ARCADIAN WINTER

PROVENÇAL LEGEND

THE ENCORE

SONG

L’ENVOI

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PART II

THE PALATINE (IN THE “DARK AGES”)

THE GAUL IN THE CAPITOL

A LIKENESS (PORTRAIT BUST OF AN UNKNOWN, CAPITOL, ROME)

THE SWEDISH MOTHER (NEBRASKA)

SPANISH JOHNNY

AUTUMN MELODY

PRAIRIE SPRING

MACON PRAIRIE (NEBRASKA)

STREET IN PACKINGTOWN (CHICAGO)

A SILVER CUP

RECOGNITION

GOING HOME (BURLINGTON ROUTE)