One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part I (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
LATE SPRING _The mottled moth at eventide Beats glimmering wings against the pane; The slow, sweet lily opens wide, White in the dusk like ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on Time (58 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
The Brothers (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Not far from here, it lies beyond That low-hilled belt of woods. We'll take This unused lane where brambles make A wall of ...
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 ...
Accolon Of Gaul: Part IV (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Hate, born of Wrath and mother red of Crime, In Hell was whelped ere the hot hands of time, Artificer of God, ...
An Old Tale Re-Told (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From the terrace here, where the hills indent, You can see the uttermost battlement Of the castle there; the Cliffords' home; Where the ...
Intimations Of The Beautiful (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe hills are full of propheciesAnd ancient voices of the dead;Of hidden shapes that no man sees,Pale, visionary presences,That speak ...
An Ode (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_In Commemoration of the Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Year 1623._ I. They who maintained their rights, Through storm and stress, And ...
The Last Scion Of The House Of Clare (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_Year 13--._ Barbican, bartizan, battlement, With the Abergavenny mountains blent, Look, from the Raglan tower of Gwent, My lord Hugh Clifford's ancient home Shows, clear ...
The Ohio Falls (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here on this jutting headland, where the trees Spread a dusk carpet for the sun to cast And count his golden guineas ...
The Black Knight (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I had not found the road too short,As once I had in days of youth,In that old forest of long ...
On Old Cape Ann (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. ANNISQUAM Old days, old ways, old homes beside the sea; Old gardens with old-fashioned flowers aflame, Poppy, petunia, and many a name Of many ...
The Song Of Songs (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I HEARD a Spirit singing as, beyond the morning winging,Its radiant form went swinging like a star:In its song prophetic ...
The Sprits Of Light And Darkness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
FIRST CHORUS. Ere the birth of Death and of Time, Ere the birth of Hell and its torments, Ere the orbs of ...
The End Of The Century (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
There are moments when, as missions, God reveals to us strange visions; When, within their separate stations, We may see the Centuries, Like revolving ...
The Isle Of Voices (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The wind blew free that morn that we, High-hearted, sailed away; Bound for Favonian islands blest, Remote within the utmost West, Beyond the golden ...
The Toll-Man’s Daughter (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Once more the June with her great moon Poured harvest o'er the golden fields; Once more her days in hot, bright shields She ...
The Portrait (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In some quaint Nurnberg maler-atelierUprummaged. When and where was never clearNor yet how he obtained it. When, by whom'Twas painted—who ...
Lincoln, 1809–February 12, 1909 (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Yea, this is he, whose name is synonym Of all that's noble, though but lowly born; Who took command upon a stormy ...
The Paphian Venus (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,All day she waited while, like ghostly ships,Long ...
Life (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I PESSIMIST There is never a thing we dream or do But was dreamed and done in the ages gone; Everything's old; there is ...
Invocation (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O Life! O Death! O God! Have I not striven? Have I not known thee, God, As thy stars know Heaven? Have I not ...
The Passing Of The Beautiful (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On southern winds shot through with amber light, Breeding soft balm, and clothed in cloudy white, The lily-fingered Spring came o'er the ...
July (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Now 'tis the time when, tall, The long blue torches of the bellflower gleam Among the trees; and, by the wooded stream. In ...
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 ...
Myth And Romance (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhen I go forth to greet the glad-faced Spring, Just at the time of opening apple-buds,When brooks are laughing, winds are ...
The Image In The Glass (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. The slow reflection of a woman's face Grew, as by witchcraft, in the oval space Of that strange glass on which the ...
Foreword to “Weeds By The Wall” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_In the first rare spring of song, In my heart's young hours, In my youth 't was thus I sang, Choosing 'mid the ...
An Antique (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Mildewed and gray the marble stairs Rise from their balustraded urns To where a chiseled satyr glares From a luxuriant bed of ferns; A ...