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 ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Night (196 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
A Twilight Moth (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Dusk is thy dawn; when Eve puts on its stateOf gold and purple in the marbled west,Thou comest forth like ...
A Voice On The Wind (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IShe walks with the wind on the windy heightWhen the rocks are loud and the waves are white,And all night ...
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 ...
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 ...
Music Of Summer (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThou sit'st among the sunny silencesOf terraced hills and woodland galleries,Thou utterance of all calm melodies,Thou lutanist of Earth's most ...
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 Rock (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here, at its base, in dingled deeps Of spice-bush, where the ivy creeps, The cold spring scoops its hollow; And there three mossy ...
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 ...
Processional (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Universes are the pagesOf that book whose words are ages;Of that book which destinyOpens in eternity.There each syllable expressesSilence; there ...
The Screech-Owl (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When, one by one, the stars have trembled through Eve's shadowy hues of violet, rose, and fire-- As on a pansy-bloom the ...
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 ...
The Troubadour Of Trebizend (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
NIGHT, they say, is no man's friend:And at night he met his endIn the woods of Trebizend.Hate crouched near him ...
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 ...
Youth (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IMorn's mystic rose is reddening on the hills,Dawn's irised nautilus makes glad the sea;There is a lyre of flame that ...
The Wood Witch (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
There is a woodland witch who liesWith bloom-bright limbs and beam-bright eyes,Among the water-flags, that rankThe slow brook's heron-haunted bank:The ...
The Owlet (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhen dusk is drowned in drowsy dreams,And slow the hues of sunset die;When firefly and moth go by,And in still ...
The Cup Of Joy (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Let us mix a cup of Joy That the wretched may employ, Whom the Fates have made their toy. Who have given brain ...
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 ...
Sunset In Autumn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Blood-coloured oaks, that stand against a sky of gold and brass; Gaunt slopes, on which the bleak leaves glow of brier ...
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 Cup Of Comus (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
PROEMTHE Nights of song and story,With breath of frost and rain,Whose locks are wild and hoary,Whose fingers tap the paneWith ...
The Headless Horseman (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On the black road through the wood As I rode,There the Headless Horseman stood;By the wild pool in the wood, As I ...
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 ...