Henry Augustin Beers

Poems (5)

• Biftek Aux Champignons

  Mimi, do you remember— / Don’t get behind your fan— …

• Ecce in Deserto

  The wilderness a secret keeps / Upon whose guess I go: …

• On a Miniature

  Thine old-world eyes—each one a violet / Big as the baby rose that is thy mouth— …

• Posthumous

  Put them in print? / Make one more dint …

• The Singer of One Song

  He sang one song and died—no more but that: / A single song and carelessly complete. …