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 ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Lies & Deceit (44 Poems)
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part I (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
LATE SPRING _The mottled moth at eventide Beats glimmering wings against the pane; The slow, sweet lily opens wide, White in the dusk like ...
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part II (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
EARLY SUMMER _The cricket in the rose-bush hedge Sings by the vine-entangled gate; The slim moon slants a timid edge Of pearl through one ...
The Moated Manse (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. And now once more we stood within the walls Of her old manor near the riverside; Dead leaves lay rotting in its ...
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part V (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WINTER _We, whom God sets a task, Striving, who ne'er attain, We are the curst!--who ask Death, and still ask in vain. We, whom God ...
Intimations Of The Beautiful (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe hills are full of propheciesAnd ancient voices of the dead;Of hidden shapes that no man sees,Pale, visionary presences,That speak ...
The Ohio Falls (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here on this jutting headland, where the trees Spread a dusk carpet for the sun to cast And count his golden guineas ...
On Old Cape Ann (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. ANNISQUAM Old days, old ways, old homes beside the sea; Old gardens with old-fashioned flowers aflame, Poppy, petunia, and many a name Of many ...
Death In Life (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Within my veins it beats And burns within my brain; For when the year is sad and sear I dream the dream again. Ah! ...
Oglethorpe (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundationstone of the new Oglethorpe University,January, 1915, at Atlanta,GeorgiaIAS when ...
The Haunted Room (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Its casements' diamond disks of glass Stare myriad on a terrace old, Where urns, unkempt with ragged grass, Foam o'er with frothy cold. The ...
Zyps Of Zirl (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The Alps of the Tyrol are dark with pines,Where, foaming under the mountain spines,The Inn's long water sounds and shines.Beyond, ...
Fairies (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On the tremulous coppice, From her plenteous hair, Large golden-rayed poppies Of moon-litten air The Night hath flung there. In the fern-favored hollow The fire-flies fleet Uncertainly ...
Life (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I PESSIMIST There is never a thing we dream or do But was dreamed and done in the ages gone; Everything's old; there is ...
Poppy And Mandragora (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Let us go far from here!Here there is sadness in the early year:Here sorrow waits where joy went laughing late:The ...
Along The Ohio (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Athwart a sky of brass rich ribs of gold; A bullion bulk the wide Ohio lies; Beneath the sunset, billowing manifold, The purple ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Carissima Mea (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I look upon my lady's face, And, in the world about me, see No face like hers in any place: _Therefore it is ...
The Road Home (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Over the hills, as the pewee flies, Under the blue of the Southern skies; Over the hills, where the red-bird wings Like a ...
The Dream Of Dread (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I have lain for an hour or twain Awake, and the tempest is beating On the roof, and the sleet on the ...
The Last Song (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
She sleeps; he sings to her. The day was long,And, tired out with too much happiness,She fain would have him ...
A Street Of Ghosts (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The drowsy day, with half-closed eyes, Dreams in this quaint forgotten street, That, like some old-world wreckage, lies,-- Left by the sea's receding ...
The Heart Of Spring (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Whiten, O whiten, ye clouds of fleece! Whiten like lilies floating above, Blown wild about like a flock of white geese! But never, ...
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 ...
Epilogue To “Shapes & Shadows” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Beyond the moon, within a land of mist, Lies the dim Garden of all Dead Desires, Walled round with morning's clouded amethyst, And ...
The Nixes’ Song (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Vague, vague 'neath darkling waves, With emerald-curving caves For the arched skies, Red-walled with dark dull gold The Nixes' city old Deep-glimmering lies. And thro' the ...
Monochromes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I.The last rose falls, wrecked of the wind and rain;Where once it bloomed the thorns alone remain: Dead in the wet ...