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 ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Life (104 Poems)
A Niello (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IIt is not early spring and yetOf bloodroot blooms along the stream,And blotted banks of violet,My heart will dream.Is it ...
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 ...
A November Sketch (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The hoar-frost hisses 'neath the feet, And the worm-fence's straggling length, Smote by the morning's slanted strength, Sparkles one rib of virgin sleet. To ...
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 ...
Dolce Far Niente (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IOver the bay as our boat went sailing Under the skies of Augustine,Far to the East lay the ocean paling Under the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Path Of Faery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhen dusk falls cool as a rained-on rose,And a tawny tower the twilight shows,With the crescent moon, the silver moon, ...
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 ...
Hymn To Spiritual Desire (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IMother of visions, with lineaments dulcet as numbersBreathed on the eyelids of Love by music that slumbers,Secretly, sweetly, O presence ...
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Inscription (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
TO G. F. M. THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED IN MEMORY OF MANY DAYS. _What though I dreamed of mountain heights, Of peaks, the barriers of ...
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, ...
The Hollow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Fleet swallows soared and darted 'Neath empty vaults of blue; Thick leaves close clung or parted To let the sunlight through; Each wild rose, ...
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 White Evening (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From gray, bleak hills 'neath steely skies Thro' beards of ice the forests roar; Along the river's humming shore The skimming skater bird-like ...
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 ...
Mater Dolorosa (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The nuns sing, "_ora pro nobis_," The lancets glitter above; And the beautiful Virgin whose robe is Woven of infinite love, Infinite love and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lords Of The Visionary Eye (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I CAME upon a pool that shone,Clear, emerald-like, among the hills,That seemed old wizards round a stoneOf magic that a ...
October (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I oft have met her slowly wanderingBeside a leafy stream, her locks blown wild,Her cheeks a hectic flush, more fair ...
A Last Word (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
OH, for some cup of consummating might,Filled with life's kind conclusion, lost in night!A wine of darkness, that with death ...
Days And Dreams (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
He dreamed of hills so deep with woods Storm-barriers on the summer sky Are not more dark, where plunged loud floods Down rocks ...
Which? (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The wind was on the forest, And silence on the wold; And darkness on the waters, And heaven was starry cold; When Sleep, with ...
Dawn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Mist on the mountain height Silvery creeping; Incarnate beads of light Bloom-cradled sleeping, Dripped from the brow of Night. II. Shadows, and winds that rise Over the ...