Attainment (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ON the Heights of Great Endeavour,- Where Attainment looms forever,- Toiling upward, ceasing never, Climb the fateful Centuries: Up the difficult, dark places, Joy and ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems on War & Peace (52 Poems)
The Last Song (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
She sleeps; he sings to her. The day was long,And, tired out with too much happiness,She fain would have him ...
The White Evening (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From gray, bleak hills 'neath steely skies Thro' beards of ice the forests roar; Along the river's humming shore The skimming skater bird-like ...
Home Again (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Far down the lane A window pane Gleams 'mid the trees through night and rain. The weeds are dense Through which a fence Of pickets ...
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 ...
Standing-Stone Creek (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A weed-grown slope, whereon the rain Has washed the brown rocks bare, Leads tangled from a lonely lane Down to a creek's broad ...
Anthem Of Dawn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThen up the orient heights to the zenith, that balanced the crescent,--Up and far up and over,--the heaven grew erubescent,Vibrant ...
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 ...
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; ...
Nearing Christmas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THE season of the rose and peace is past:It could not last.There's heartbreak in the hills and stormy sighsOf sorrow ...
The Harvest Moon (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IGlobed in Heav'n's tree of azure, golden mellow As some round apple hungHigh in hesperian boughs, thou hangest yellow The branch-like mists ...
The Iron Crags (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
UPON the iron crags of War I heard his terrible daughtersIn battle speak while at their feet,In gulfs of human ...
When Ships Put Out To Sea (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IIt's "Sweet, good-bye," when pennants fly And ships put out to sea;It's a loving kiss, and a tear or twoIn an ...
The “Kentucky” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
(Battleship, launched March 24, 1898.)IHere's to her who bears the name Of our State;May the glory of her fame Be as great!In ...
Chant Before Battle (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
EVER since man was man a Fiend has stoodOutside his House of Good,-War, with his terrible toys, that win men's ...
The Iron Age (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
And these are Christians!--God! the horror of it-- How long, O Lord! how long, O Lord! how long Wilt Thou endure this ...
Ossian’s Poems (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here I have heard on hills the battle clash Roar to the windy sea that roared again: When, drunk with wrath, upon ...
Above The Vales (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
We went by ways of bygone days, Up mountain heights of story, Where lost in vague, historic haze, Tradition, crowned with battle-bays, Sat 'mid ...
Where The Battle Passed (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ONE blossoming rose-tree, like a beautiful thoughtNursed in a broken mind, that waits and schemes,Survives, though shattered, and about it ...
A. D. Nineteen Hundred (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
War and Disaster, Famine and Pestilence, Vaunt-couriers of the Century that comes, Behold them shaking their tremendous plumes Above the world! where all ...
The Swashbuckler (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Squat-nosed and broad, of big and pompous port; A tavern visage, apoplexy haunts, All pimple-puffed; the Falstaff-like resort Of fat debauchery, whose veined ...
The Rising Of The Moon (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THE Day brims high its ewerOf blue with starry light,And crowns as King that hewerOf clouds (which take their flightAcross ...