Vine And Sycamore (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I Here where a tree and its wild liana, Leaning over the streamlet, grow, Once a nymph, like the moon'd Diana, Sat in the ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Flowers (111 Poems)
Treachery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Came a spicy smell of showers On the purple wings of night, And a pearl-encrusted crescent On the lake looked still and white, While ...
Invocation (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O Life! O Death! O God! Have I not striven? Have I not known thee, God, As thy stars know Heaven? Have I not ...
Self And Soul (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
It came to me in my sleep, And I rose from my sleep and went Out in the night to weep, Over the ...
Loveliness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. When I fare forth to kiss the eyes of Spring, On ways, which arch gold sunbeams and pearl buds Embraced, two whispers ...
Falerina (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The night is hung above us, love, With heavy stars that love us, love, With clouds that curl in purple and pearl, And ...
Persephone (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
O Hades! O false gods! false to yourselves! O Hades, 'twas thy brother gave her thee Without a mother's sanction or her ...
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 ...
To Autumn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I oft have net thee, Autumn, wandering Beside a misty stream, thy locks flung wild; Thy cheeks a hectic flush more fair ...
The Cricket (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. First of the insect choir, in the spring We hear his faint voice fluttering in the grass, Beneath some blossom's rosy covering Or ...
The Unattainable (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Mark thou! a shadow crowned with fire of hell.Man holds her in his heart as night doth holdThe moonlight memories ...
July (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Now 'tis the time when, tall, The long blue torches of the bellflower gleam Among the trees; and, by the wooded stream. In ...
After The Rain (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Behold the blossom-bosomed Day again,With all the star-white Hours in her train,Laughs out of pearl-lights through a golden ray,That, leaning ...
One Who Loved Nature (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IHe was not learned in any art;But Nature led him by the hand;And spoke her language to his heartSo he ...
The Mood O’ The Earth (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
My heart is high, is high, my dear, And the warm wind sunnily blows; My heart is high with a mood that's ...
Foreword to “Weeds By The Wall” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_In the first rare spring of song, In my heart's young hours, In my youth 't was thus I sang, Choosing 'mid the ...
The Brush Sparrow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Ere wild haws, looming in the glooms, Build bolted drifts of breezy blooms; And in the whistling hollow there The red-bud bends as ...
An Antique (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Mildewed and gray the marble stairs Rise from their balustraded urns To where a chiseled satyr glares From a luxuriant bed of ferns; A ...
Romance (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thus have I pictured her:—In Arden oldA white-browed maiden with a falcon eye,Rose-flushed of face, with locks of wind-blown gold,Teaching ...
The Glowworm (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
How long had I sat there and had not beheldThe gleam of the glow-worm till something compelled!...The heaven was starless, ...
The Poet (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
He stands above all worldly schism, And, gazing over life's abysm, Beholds within the starry range Of heaven laws of death and change, That, ...
Frost (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
White artist he, who, breezeless nights, From tingling stars jocosely whirls, A harlequin in spangled tights, His wand a pot of pounded pearls. The ...
Moon Fairies (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THE moon, a circle of gold,O'er the crowded housetops rolled,And peeped in an attic, where,'Mid sordid things and bare,A sick ...
Requiescat (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The roses mourn for her who sleeps Within the tomb; For her each lily-flower weeps Dew and perfume. In each neglected flower-bed Each blossom droops ...
The Lonely Land (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A RIVER binds the lonely land,A river like a silver band,To crags and shores of yellow sand.It is a place ...
A Wild Iris (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
That day we wandered 'mid the hills,--so lone Clouds are not lonelier,--the forest lay In emerald darkness 'round us. Many a stone And ...
The Speckled Trout (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With rod and line I took my way That led me through the gossip trees, Where all the forest was asway With hurry ...
Beautiful-Bo (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IBeautiful-bosomed, O Night, in thy noonMove with majesty onward! soaring, as lightlyAs a singer may soar the notes of an ...
A Forest Idyl (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I Beneath an old beech-tree They sat together, Fair as a flower was she Of summer weather. They spoke of life and love, While, through the ...
There Are Faeries (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThere are faeries, bright of eye,Who the wildflowers' warders are:Ouphes, that chase the firefly;Elves, that ride the shooting-star:Fays, who in ...