One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part II (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
EARLY SUMMER _The cricket in the rose-bush hedge Sings by the vine-entangled gate; The slim moon slants a timid edge Of pearl through one ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Silence (36 Poems)
The Moated Manse (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. And now once more we stood within the walls Of her old manor near the riverside; Dead leaves lay rotting in its ...
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part V (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WINTER _We, whom God sets a task, Striving, who ne'er attain, We are the curst!--who ask Death, and still ask in vain. We, whom God ...
My Lady Of Verne (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
It all comes back as the end draws near; All comes back like a tale of old! Shall I tell you all? ...
The Land Of Hearts Made Whole (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Do you know the way that goes Over fields of rue and rose,-- Warm of scent and hot of hue, Roofed with heaven's ...
Deep In The Forest (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. SPRING ON THE HILLSAh, shall I follow, on the hills,The Spring, as wild wings follow?Where wild-plum trees make wan ...
Jotunheim (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IBeyond the Northern Lights, in regions hauntedOf twilight, where the world is glacier planted,And pale as Loki in his cavern ...
The Moonmen (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I stood in the forest on HURON HILL When the night was old and the world was still. The Wind was a ...
Musings (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
INSPIRATION. All who have toiled for Art, who've won or lost, Sat equal priests at her high Pentecost; Only the chrism and sacrament ...
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 ...
In Arcady (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I remember, when a child,How within the April wildOnce I walked with MysteryIn the groves of Arcady….Through the boughs, before, ...
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 ...
Rain In The Woods (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When on the leaves the rain persists, And every gust brings showers down; When all the woodland smokes with mists, I take the ...
Evening On The Farm (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From out the hills where twilight stands,Above the shadowy pasture lands,With strained and strident cry,Beneath pale skies that sunset bands,The ...
The Dream Of Dread (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I have lain for an hour or twain Awake, and the tempest is beating On the roof, and the sleet on the ...
A Street Of Ghosts (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The drowsy day, with half-closed eyes, Dreams in this quaint forgotten street, That, like some old-world wreckage, lies,-- Left by the sea's receding ...
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 ...
Remembered (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here in the dusk I see her face againAs then I knew it, ere she fell asleep;Renunciation glorifying pain Of her ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 Intruder (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THERE is a smell of roses in the roomTea-roses, dead of bloom;An invalid, she sits there in the gloom,And contemplates ...
Before The Rain (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
BEFORE the rain, low in the obscure east, Weak and morose the moon hung, sickly gray;Around its disc the storm mists, ...
Music (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thou, oh, thou!Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thouOf the dark eyes and pale pacific brow!Music, who by ...
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 ...