Bare Boughs (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
O heart,—that beat the bird's blithe blood,The blithe bird's strain, and understoodThe song it sang to leaf and bud,—What dost ...
O heart,—that beat the bird's blithe blood,The blithe bird's strain, and understoodThe song it sang to leaf and bud,—What dost ...
HE found the long room as it was of old,Glimmering with sunset's gold;That made the tapestries seem full of eyesStrange ...
Awake! the dawn is on the hills!Behold, at her cool throat a rose,Blue-eyed and beautiful she goes,Leaving her steps in ...
IWhen you and I in the hills went Maying,You and I in the bright May weather,The birds, that sang on ...
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 ...
EVER since man was man a Fiend has stoodOutside his House of Good,-War, with his terrible toys, that win men's ...
Thin, chisel-fine a cricket chippedThe crystal silence into sound;And where the branches dreamed and drippedA grasshopper its dagger strippedAnd on ...
In the shadow of the beeches,Where the fragile wildflowers bloom;Where the pensive silence pleachesGreen a roof of cool perfume,Have you ...
COME in, old Ghost of all that used to be! -You find me old,And love grown cold,And fortune fled to ...
FEBRILE perfumes as of faded rosesIn the old house speak of love to-day,Love long past; and where the soft day ...
THE rose, that wrote its message on the noon'sBright manuscript, has turned her perfumed faceTowards Fall, and waits, heart-heavy, for ...
LOW, weed-climbed cliffs, o'er which at noonThe sea-mists swoon:Wind-twisted pines, through which the crowGoes winging slow:Dim fields, the sower never ...
LET us bid the world good-by,Now while sun and cloud's above us,While we've nothing to deny,Nothing but our selves to ...
A Sufi debauchee of dreams Spake this:--From Sodomite to Peri Earth tablets us; we live and are Man's own long commentary. Is one begat ...
And these are Christians!--God! the horror of it-- How long, O Lord! how long, O Lord! how long Wilt Thou endure this ...
SHUT it out of the heart - this grief,O Love, with the years grown old and hoary!And let in joy ...
Last night I watched for Death-- So sick of life was I!-- When in the street beneath I heard his watchman cry The hour, ...
Frail, shrunken face, so pinched and worn,That life has carved with care and doubt!So weary waiting, night and morn,For that ...
The pink rose drops its petals onThe moonlit lawn, the moonlit lawn;The moon, like some wide rose of white,Drops down ...
Loss molds our lives in many ways, And fills our souls with guesses; Upon our hearts sad hands it lays Like some grave ...
IWhy do I love you, who have never given My heart encouragement or any cause?Is it because, as earth is held ...
(Song) Love hath no place in her, Though in her bosom be Love-thoughts and dreams that stir Longings that know not me: Love hath no ...
The songs Love sang to us are dead:Yet shall he sing to us again,When the dull days are wrapped in ...
_Written of Colossal Cave, Kentucky._ Aisles and abysses; leagues no man explores, Of rock that labyrinths and night that drips; Where everlasting silence ...
Who knows the things they dream, alas! Or feel, who lie beneath the ground? Perhaps the flowers, the leaves, and grass That close ...
The moth and beetle wing aboutThe garden ways of other days;Above the hills, a fiery shoutOf gold, the day dies ...
Friend, for the sake of loves we hold in common, The love of books, of paintings, rhyme and fiction; And for the ...
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 ...
There is nothing that eases my heart so much As the wind that blows from the purple hills; 'Tis a hand of ...
Here where LOVE lies perish(Madison Julius Cawein)
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