A Woodland Grave (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
White moons may come, white moons may go—She sleeps where early blossoms blow;Knows nothing of the leafy June,That leans above ...
White moons may come, white moons may go—She sleeps where early blossoms blow;Knows nothing of the leafy June,That leans above ...
Thou, oh, thou!Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thouOf the dark eyes and pale pacific brow!Music, who by ...
ABOVE the world a glareOf sunset - guns and spears;An army, no one hears,Of mist and air:Long lines of bronze ...
I.There in the calamus he standsWith frog-webbed feet and bat-winged hands;His glow-worm garb glints goblin-wise; And elfishly, and elfishly,Above the gleam ...
UPON the iron crags of War I heard his terrible daughtersIn battle speak while at their feet,In gulfs of human ...
IIt's "Sweet, good-bye," when pennants fly And ships put out to sea;It's a loving kiss, and a tear or twoIn an ...
It seemed the listening forest held its breath Before some vague and unapparent form Of fear, approaching with the wings of death, On ...
THE sunset was a sleepy gold,And stars were in the skiesWhen down a weedy lane he strolledIn vague and thoughtless ...
Low clouds, the lightning veins and cleaves, Torn from the forest of the storm, Sweep westward like enormous leaves O'er field and farm. And ...
Sad-hearted spirit of the solitudes,Who comest through the ruin-wedded woods!Gray-gowned with fog, gold-girdled with the gloomOf tawny twilights; burdened with ...
COME in, old Ghost of all that used to be! -You find me old,And love grown cold,And fortune fled to ...
FEBRILE perfumes as of faded rosesIn the old house speak of love to-day,Love long past; and where the soft day ...
THE black night showed its hungry teeth,And gnawed with sleet at roof and pane;Beneath the door I heard it breathe ...
Last night I watched for Death-- So sick of life was I!-- When in the street beneath I heard his watchman cry The hour, ...
Frail, shrunken face, so pinched and worn,That life has carved with care and doubt!So weary waiting, night and morn,For that ...
ONE blossoming rose-tree, like a beautiful thoughtNursed in a broken mind, that waits and schemes,Survives, though shattered, and about it ...
War and Disaster, Famine and Pestilence, Vaunt-couriers of the Century that comes, Behold them shaking their tremendous plumes Above the world! where all ...
Oaks and a water. By the water--eyes, Ice-green and steadfast as cold stars; and hair Yellow as eyes deep in a she-wolf's ...
There is a legend of an old Hartz tower That tells of one, a noble, who had sold His soul unto the ...
THE Season speaks this year of lifeConfusing words of strife,Suggesting weeds instead of fruits and flowersIn all Earth's bowers.With heart ...
THROUGH some strange sense of sight or touchI find what all have found before,The presence I have feared so much,The ...
These have a life that hath no part in death; These circumscribe the soul and make it strong; Between the breathing of ...
The misty rain makes dim my face, The night's black cloak is o'er me; I tread the dripping cypress-place, A flickering light before ...
Man's are the learnings of his books—What is all knowledge that he knowsBeside the wit of winding brooks,The wisdom of ...
MASTER of human harmonies, where gongAnd harp and violin and flute accord;Each instrument confessing you its lord,Within the deathless orchestra ...
The days that clothed white limbs with heat,And rocked the red rose on their breast,Have passed with amber-sandaled feetInto the ...
Oh, why for us the blighted bloom!The blossom that lies withering!The Master of Life's changeless loomHath wrought for us no ...
LIFE was unkind to him;All things went wrong:Fortune assigned to himMerely a song.Ever a mysteryHere to his heart;In his life's ...
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