In Pearl And Gold (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WHEN pearl and gold, o'er deeps of musk,The moon curves, silvering the dusk,-As in a garden, dreaming,A lily slips its ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Soul (94 Poems)
A Song For Yule (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ISing, Hey, when the time rolls round this way,And the bells peal out, _'Tis Christmas Day_;The world is better then ...
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 ...
Voices (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When blood-root blooms and trillium flowers Unclasp their stars to sun and rain, My heart strikes hands with winds and showers And wanders ...
The Long Room (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
HE found the long room as it was of old,Glimmering with sunset's gold;That made the tapestries seem full of eyesStrange ...
In May (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhen you and I in the hills went Maying,You and I in the bright May weather,The birds, that sang on ...
The Love Of Loves (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I have not seen her face, and yet She is more sweet than any thing Of Earth--than rose or violet That Mayday winds ...
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 ...
The Brook (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
To it the forest tells The mystery that haunts its heart and folds Its form in cogitation deep, that holds The shadow of ...
Unheard (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
All things are wrought of melody, Unheard, yet full of speaking spells; Within the rock, within the tree, A soul of music dwells. A ...
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 ...
Her Vivien Eyes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Her Vivien eyes,--beware! beware!-- Though they be stars, a deadly snare They set beneath her night of hair. Regard them not! lest, drawing ...
The End Of All (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. I do not love you now, O narrow heart, that had no heights but pride! You, whom mine fed; to whom yours ...
Beauty And Art (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The gods are dead; but still for meLives on in wildwood brook and treeEach myth, each old divinity.For me still ...
Mignon (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Oh, Mignon's mouth is like a rose, A red, red rose, that half uncurls Sweet petals o'er a crimson bee: Or like a ...
To My Good Friend W. T. H. Howe (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Friend, for the sake of loves we hold in common, The love of books, of paintings, rhyme and fiction; And for the ...
Revealment (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A sense of sadness in the golden air;A pensiveness, that has no part in care,As if the Season, by some ...
The World’s Desire (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The roses of voluptuousnessWreathe her dark locks and hide her eyes;Her limbs are flower-like nakedness,Wherethrough the fragrant blood doth press,The ...
Discovery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
What is it now that I shall seekWhere woods dip downward, in the hills?—A mossy nook, a ferny creek,And May ...
Her Eyes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In her dark eyes dreams poetize; The soul sits lost in love: There is no thing in all the skies, To gladden all ...
The Age Of Gold (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The clouds that tower in storm, that beatArterial thunder in their veins;The wildflowers lifting, shyly sweet,Their perfect faces from the ...
Music And Sleep (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
These have a life that hath no part in death; These circumscribe the soul and make it strong; Between the breathing of ...
The Death Of Love (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
So Love is dead, the Love we knew of old!And in the sorrow of our hearts' hushed hallsA lute lies ...
Allurement (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Across the world she sends me word, From gardens fair as Falerina's, Now by a blossom, now a bird, To come to her, ...
Inscribed To The Pathetic Memory Of The Poet Henry Timrod (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_Long are the days, and three times long the nights.The weary hours are a heavy chainUpon the feet of all ...
Prototypes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Whether it be that we in letters traceThe pure exactness of a wood bird's strain,And name it song; or with ...
The Woman (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WITH her fair face she made my heaven,Beneath whose stars and moon and sunI worshiped, praying, having striven,For wealth through ...
What Little Things! (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From "One Day and Another"What little things are thoseThat hold our happiness!A smile, a glance, a roseDropped from her hair ...
Proem To “A Voice On The Wind And Other Poems” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Oh, for a soul that fulfills Music like that of a bird!Thrilling with rapture the hills, Heedless if any one heard.Or, like ...
Words (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I cannot tell what I would tell thee, What I would say, what thou shouldst hear:Words of the soul that should ...