Garden Gossip (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thin, chisel-fine a cricket chippedThe crystal silence into sound;And where the branches dreamed and drippedA grasshopper its dagger strippedAnd on ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Flowers (111 Poems)
Chant Before Battle (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
EVER since man was man a Fiend has stoodOutside his House of Good,-War, with his terrible toys, that win men's ...
Fall (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
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 ...
Haec Olim Meminisse (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
FEBRILE perfumes as of faded rosesIn the old house speak of love to-day,Love long past; and where the soft day ...
The Vampire (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A lily in a twilight place?A moonflow'r in the lonely night?--Strange beauty of a woman's face Of wildflow'r-white!The rain that hangs ...
In A Garden (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The pink rose drops its petals onThe moonlit lawn, the moonlit lawn;The moon, like some wide rose of white,Drops down ...
Communicants (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Who knows the things they dream, alas! Or feel, who lie beneath the ground? Perhaps the flowers, the leaves, and grass That close ...
Interpreted (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
What magic shall solve us the secret Of beauty that's born for an hour?That gleams like the flight of an egret, Or ...
Kinship (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. There is no flower of wood or lea, No April flower, as fair as she: O white anemone, who hast The wind's wild ...
Comradery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With eyes hand-arched he looks intoThe morning's face; then turns awayWith truant feet, all wet with dew,Out for a holiday.The ...
In June (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Deep in the West a berry-coloured bar Of sunset gleams; against which one tall fir Is outlined dark; above which--courier Of dew and ...
Qui Docet, Discit (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. When all the world was white with flowers, And Summer, in her sun-built towers, Stood smiling 'mid her handmaid Hours, Who robed her ...
Dead And Gone (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I I wot well o' his going To think in flowers fair;-- His a right kind heart, my dear, To give the grass such ...
Womanhood (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe summer takes its hueFrom something opulent as fair in her,And the bright heaven is brighter than it was;Brighter and ...
A Dark Day (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Though Summer walks the world to-day With corn-crowned hours for her guard,Her thoughts have clad themselves in gray, And wait in Autumn's ...
Gertrude (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When first I gazed on GERTRUDE'S face, Beheld her loveliness and grace; Her brave gray eyes, her raven hair, Her ways, more winsome ...
Snow And Fire (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Deep-hearted roses of the purple duskAnd lilies of the morn;And cactus, holding up a slender tuskOf fragrance on a thorn;All ...
The Death Of Love (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
So Love is dead, the Love we knew of old!And in the sorrow of our hearts' hushed hallsA lute lies ...
The Dreamer (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Even as a child he loved to thrid the bowers,And mark the loafing sunlight's lazy laugh;Or, on each season, spell ...
Problems (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Man's are the learnings of his books—What is all knowledge that he knowsBeside the wit of winding brooks,The wisdom of ...
Proem To “A Voice On The Wind And Other Poems” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Oh, for a soul that fulfills Music like that of a bird!Thrilling with rapture the hills, Heedless if any one heard.Or, like ...