Under The Stars And Stripes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
High on the world did our fathers of old, Under the stars and stripes, Blazon the name that we now must uphold, Under ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Light (130 Poems)
Hackelnberg (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When down the Hartz the echoes swarm He rides beneath the sounding storm With mad "halloo!" and wild alarm Of hound and horn--a ...
Oriental Romance (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IBeyond lost seas of summer sheDwelt on an island of the sea,Last scion of that dynasty,Queen of a race forgotten ...
In The Lane (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,And the brown bee drones i' the rose;And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,And ...
Two (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With her soft face half turned to me, Like an arrested moonbeam, she Stood in the cirque of that deep tree. I took ...
A Belgian Christmas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The "happy year" of 1914AN hour from dawn:The snow sweeps onAs it swept with sleet last night:The Earth aroundBreathes never ...
Senorita (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
An agate-black, your roguish eyesClaim no proud lineage of the skies,No starry blue; but of good earthThe reckless witchery and ...
The Miracle Of The Dawn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
What would it mean for you and meIf dawn should come no more!Think of its gold along the sea,Its rose ...
Dreams (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
My thoughts have borne me far away To Beauties of an older day, Where, crowned with roses, stands the DAWN, Striking her seven-stringed ...
Her Vesper Song (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The _Summer_ lightning comes and goes In one pale cloud above the hill, As if within its soft repose A burning heart were ...
A Song In Season (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I.When in the wind the vane turns round, And round, and round;And in his kennel whines the hound;When all the gable ...
The City Of Darkness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Wide-walled it stands in heathen landsBeside a mystic sea,With streets strange-trod of many a god,And templed blasphemy.Far in the night, ...
The Dead Oread (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Her heart is still and leaps no moreWith holy passion when the breeze,Her whilom playmate, as before,Comes with the language ...
The Tryst (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Had fallen a fragrant shower; The leaves were dripping yet; Each fern and rain-weighed flower Around were gleaming wet; On ev'ry bosky bower A million ...
The Whippoorwill (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IAbove lone woodland ways that ledTo dells the stealthy twilights treadThe west was hot geranium red;And still, and still,Along old ...
The Message Of The Lilies (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
My soul and I went walking Beneath the moon of Spring; The lilies pale were talking, Were faintly murmuring. From dimly moonlit places They thrust ...
Ku Klux (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
We have sent him seeds of the melon's core,And nailed a warning upon his door:By the Ku Klux laws we ...
The Child At The Gate (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THE sunset was a sleepy gold,And stars were in the skiesWhen down a weedy lane he strolledIn vague and thoughtless ...
Sunset Clouds (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Low clouds, the lightning veins and cleaves, Torn from the forest of the storm, Sweep westward like enormous leaves O'er field and farm. And ...
Occult (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Unto the soul's companionship Of things that only seem to be, Earth points with magic fingertip And bids thee see How Fancy keeps thee ...
In The Shadow Of The Beeches (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In the shadow of the beeches,Where the fragile wildflowers bloom;Where the pensive silence pleachesGreen a roof of cool perfume,Have you ...
Old Ghosts (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
CLOVE-SPICY pinks and phlox that fill the senseWith drowsy indolence;And in the evening skiesInterior splendor, pregnant with surprise,As if in ...
The Magic Purse (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WHAT is the gold of mortal-kindTo that men findDeep in the poet's mind! -That magic purseOf Dreams from whichGod builds ...
Child And Father (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A LITTLE child, one night, awoke and cried,"Oh, help me, father! there is something wildBefore me! help me!" Hurrying to ...
The Troglodyte (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In ages dead, a troglodyte,At the hollow roots of a monster height,--That grew from the heart of the world to ...
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 ...
May (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The golden discs of the rattlesnake-weed,That spangle the woods and dance—No gleam of gold that the twilights holdIs strong as ...
“The years, wherein I never knew” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The years, wherein I never knew Such beauty as is yours,--so fraught With truth and kindness looking through Your loveliness,--I count them naught, O ...
Superstition (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In the waste places, in the dreadful night, When the wood whispers like a wandering mind, And silence sits and listens to ...
In Winter (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I.When black frosts pluck the acorns down, And in the lane the waters freeze;And 'thwart red skies the wild-fowl flies, And death ...