The Moated Manse (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. And now once more we stood within the walls Of her old manor near the riverside; Dead leaves lay rotting in its ...
I. And now once more we stood within the walls Of her old manor near the riverside; Dead leaves lay rotting in its ...
The twilight falls; I soften the dusting feathers,And clean again.The house has lain and moldered for three days.The windows smeared ...
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and thenwas ...
The afternoon had a flu-like quality, gray and threatening to burst into tears at any moment, but I held it ...
Batholomew Benjamin BuntingHad only three passions in life,And one of the trio was hunting,The others his babe and his wife.And ...
Thoughtful, hands behind my back,I walk between the railsthe straightest waythere is.From behind meat great speedcomes a trainthat knows nothing ...
I VERSE a Settler's Tale of the old times,-One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,Old Egremont, who then ...
I.(_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed,Weds Columbine, ...
Haw!Ai've just obteened a pension for mai Paw.And you should hev seen the people that were theah. Re-ally, it was ...
Night; and so we share a bed ...You have never guessed One who is completely deadHolds you to his breast.Hide ...
A near horizon whose sharp jags Cut brutally into a sky Of leaden heaviness, and crags Of houses lift their ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his 'Defence of Ignorance' how many poets Go mad or seem to be ...
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