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 Woman (31 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Water Witch (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
See! the milk-white doe is wounded. He will follow as it bounds Through the woods. His horn has sounded. Echoing, for his men ...
The Three Urgandas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Cast on sleep there came to me Three Urgandas; and the sea In lost lands of Briogne Sounded moaning, moaning: Cloudy clad in awful ...
Dithyrambics (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ITEMPESTWrapped round of the night, as a monster is wrapped of the ocean,Down, down through vast storeys of darkness, behold, ...
The Dream Of Roderick (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Below, the tawny Tagus sweptPast royal gardens, breathing balm;Upon his couch the monarch slept;The world was still; the night was ...
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 ...
Love And A Day (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. In girandoles of gladioles The day had kindled flame; And Heaven a door of gold and pearl Unclosed when Morning,--like a girl, A red ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Oriental Romance (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IBeyond lost seas of summer sheDwelt on an island of the sea,Last scion of that dynasty,Queen of a race forgotten ...
Clearing (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Before the wind, with rain-drowned stocks,The pleated crimson hollyhocks Are bending;And, smouldering in the breaking brown,Above the hills that edge the ...
Black Vesper Pageants (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The day, all fierce with carmine, turns An Indian face towards Earth and dies; The west, like some gaunt vase, inurns Its ashes ...
The Child At The Gate (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THE sunset was a sleepy gold,And stars were in the skiesWhen down a weedy lane he strolledIn vague and thoughtless ...
The Vampire (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A lily in a twilight place?A moonflow'r in the lonely night?--Strange beauty of a woman's face Of wildflow'r-white!The rain that hangs ...
Ghosts (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
LOW, weed-climbed cliffs, o'er which at noonThe sea-mists swoon:Wind-twisted pines, through which the crowGoes winging slow:Dim fields, the sower never ...
Lynchers (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
At the moon's down-going let it beOn the quarry hill with its one gnarled tree.The red-rock road of the underbrush,Where ...
The Willow Bottom (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Lush green the grass that grows betweenThe willows of the bottom-land;Verged by the careless water, tall and green,The brown-topped cat-tails ...
Her Portrait (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Were I an artist, Lydia, I Would paint you as you merit,Not as my eyes, but dreams, descry; Not in the flesh, ...
Foreward (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_And one, perchance, will read and sigh: "What aimless songs! Why will he sing Of nature that drags out her woe Through wind ...
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 ...
Riley (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
His Birthday, October the 7th, 1912RILEY, whose pen has made the world your debtor,Whose Art has kept you young through ...
Restraint (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Dear heart and love! what happiness to sitAnd watch the firelight's varying shade and shineOn thy young face; and through ...
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 ...