One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part III (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
LATE SUMMER _Heat lightning flickers in one cloud, As in a flow'r a firefly; Some rain-drops, that the rose-bush bowed, Jar through the leaves ...
LATE SUMMER _Heat lightning flickers in one cloud, As in a flow'r a firefly; Some rain-drops, that the rose-bush bowed, Jar through the leaves ...
A FA FableLuxus tumultus semper causa est.Lucullus Languish, student of the skies,And connoisseur of rarebits and mince pies,A bard by ...
There is the ruined water-mill With its rotten wheel, that stands as still As its image that sleeps in the glassy pool Where ...
The long gray twilight falls and deeper glooms Close round the graying wood that dimmer growsAs dies the Day's last yearning ...
If you could bring her glories back!You gentle sirs who sift the dustAnd burrow in the mould and mustOf Babylon ...
Ghastly, ghoulish, grinning skull,Toothless, eyeless, hollow, dull,Why your smirk and empty smileAs the hours away you wile?Has the earth become ...
Stretch of windless ocean sand,With no green inchoateLilting of the sea, will bearOnly creosote.No dark fish or ghoulish formOscillates at ...
GOATS go past the back of the house like dry leaves in the dawn,And up the hill like a ...
'Twas a hell of a Hell they glimpsed, my son, In superstitious daysWhen cultured man had scarce begun To ...
Writhing bodies clad in blackFlow past me as I stare.Like beacons on a stormy seaThe lights around them flare.Leather, velvet, ...
The column winds on snake-like,Through blistering, treeless spaces;The hovering gray-black dust cloudsTint in ghoulish shades our faces. The sweat of ...
How calm, how beauteous and how cool— How like a sister to the skies,Appears the broad, transparent pool That in ...
Though Death now seem triumphant, as he wavesHis dreadful banner o'er a world of graves,And feasts, with ghoulish glee, on ...
How should I sing when buffeting salt waves And stung with bitter surges, in whose might I toss, a cockleshell? ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
How calm, how beauteous and how cool-- How like a sister to the skies, Appears the broad, transparent pool That ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
She lay like a saint on her copper couch; Like an angel asleep she lay, In the stare of the ...
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