The Passing Of The Beautiful (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On southern winds shot through with amber light, Breeding soft balm, and clothed in cloudy white, The lily-fingered Spring came o'er the ...
On southern winds shot through with amber light, Breeding soft balm, and clothed in cloudy white, The lily-fingered Spring came o'er the ...
She's beautiful! Her raven curls Have broken hearts in envious girls-- And then they sleep in contrast so, Like raven feathers upon snow, And ...
In its color, shade and shine, 'T was a summer warm as wine, With an effervescent flavoring of flowered bough and vine, And ...
MANY a graven gem, besetWith gold, is worn as an amuletIn the far-off climes of the East,—a charmTo preserve the ...
TO APHRODITEI.Oh, thou most lovely and most beautiful!- Wherever cooingly thy white doves lull Thy bright eyes to soft slumber; ...
In the sad evening of my life,A single star upon me smiles, And makes the world's turmoil and strife Seem ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked,As often before, the April fields till star-lightSilkened over with viewless ...
In the deep hour of dreams,Through the dark woods, and past the moaning sea,And by the star-light gleams,Mother of sorrows! ...
SWEET boy! before thy lips can learnIn speech thy wishes to make known,Are "thoughts that breathe and words that burn"Heard ...
All through the night time, and all through the day time,Dreading the morning and dreading the night,Nearer and nearer we ...
"IIN silence, solitude and stern surmise His faith was tried and proved commensurate With life and death. The ...
IS it the sunshine on my eyesSuch slumber throws,Here as I sit, too tired to rise,They to unclose:Here as I ...
"SUCH is the force of each created thing That it no solid happiness can bring, Which to our minds can ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
THE CHILDREN awoke in their dreaming While earth lay dewy and still: They followed the rill in its gleaming To ...
Dim vales- and shadowy floods- And cloudy-looking woods, Whose forms we can't discover For the tears that drip all over! ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked, As often before, the April fields till star-light Silkened over ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
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