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 ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Light (130 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Morning And Night (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
FROM "THE TRIUMPH OF MUSIC." ... Fresh from bathing in orient fountains, In wells of rock water and snow, Comes the Dawn with ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sleep Is A Spirit (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Sleep is a spirit, who beside us sits, Or through our frames like some dim glamour flits; From out her form a ...
The Watcher on the Tower (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe Voice of a ManWHAT of the Night, O Watcher? The Voice of a Woman Yea, what of it? The WatcherA star has ...
Gargaphie (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
"Succinctae sacra Dianae".—OVIDThere the ragged sunlight layTawny on thick ferns and grayOn dark waters: dimmer,Lone and deep, the cypress groveBowered ...
Deity (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
No personal; a God divinely crowned With gold and raised upon a golden throne Deep in a golden glory, whence he nods Man ...
Art (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I know not how I found you With your wild hair a-blow, Nor why the world around you Would never let me ...
The Rosicrucian (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe tripod flared with a purple spark,And the mist hung emerald in the dark:Now he stooped to the lilac flameOver ...
Elusion (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IMy soul goes out to her who says,"Come, follow me and cast off care!"Then tosses back her sun-bright hair,And like ...
O Maytime Woods! (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From the idyll "Wild Thorn and Lily"O Maytime woods! O Maytime lanes and hours!And stars, that knew how often there ...
The New Year (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Lift up thy torch, O Year, and let us see What Destiny Hath made thee heir to at nativity! Doubt, some call Faith; ...
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 ...
Ghost Stories (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When the hoot of the owl comes over the hill,At twelve o'clock when the night is still,And pale on the ...
Phantoms (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
This was her home; one mossy gable thrustAbove the cedars and the locust trees:This was her home, whose beauty now ...
Paths (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhat words of mine can tell the spellOf garden ways I know so well?—The path that takes me in the ...
The Wild Iris (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
That day we wandered 'mid the hills,—so loneClouds are not lonelier, the forest layIn emerald darkness round us. Many a ...
The Tree-Toad (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ISecluded, solitary on some underbough,Or cradled in a leaf, 'mid glimmering light,Like Puck thou crouchest: Haply watching howThe slow toadstool ...
The Chipmunk (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IHe makes a roadway of the crumbling fence,Or on the fallen tree,—brown as a leafFall stripes with russet,—gambols down the ...
The Old Inn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
1. Red-winding from the sleepy town, One takes the lone, forgotten lane Straight through the hills. A brush-bird brown Bubbles in thorn-flowers sweet with ...
The Sleeper (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
She sleeps and dreams; one milk-white, lawny arm Pillowing her heavy hair, as might cold Night Meeting her sister Day, with glory ...
Under The Hunter’s Moon (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
White from her chrysalis of cloud, The moth-like moon swings upward through the night; And all the bee-like stars that crowd The hollow ...
Amadis And Oriana (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From "Beltenebros at Miraflores"O sunset, from the springs of starsDraw down thy cataracts of gold;And belt their streams with burning ...
The Wanderer (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Between the death of day and birth of night,By War's red light,I met with one in trailing sorrows clad,Whose features ...