A Poet’s Epitaph (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
LIFE was unkind to him;All things went wrong:Fortune assigned to himMerely a song.Ever a mysteryHere to his heart;In his life's ...
LIFE was unkind to him;All things went wrong:Fortune assigned to himMerely a song.Ever a mysteryHere to his heart;In his life's ...
How some succeed who have least need,In that they make no effort for!And pluck, where others pluck a weed,The burning ...
Is mine the part of no companion handOf help, except my shadow's silent self?A moonlight traveller in Fancy's landOf leering ...
BLACK clouds hung low and heavy,Above the sunset glare;And in the garden dimlyWe wandered here and there.So full of strife, ...
Not his the part to win the goal, The flaming goal that flies before,Into whose course the apples roll Of self that ...
Within the soul are throned two powers,One, Love; one, Hate. Begot of these,And veiled between, a presence towers,The shadowy keeper ...
High on a throne of noisome ooze and heat, 'Mid rotting trees of bayou and lagoon, Ghastly she sits beneath the skeleton ...
A heritage of hopes and fearsAnd dreams and memory,And vices of ten thousand yearsGod gives to thee.A house of clay, ...
The wine-loud laughter of indulged Desire Upon his lips, and, in his eyes, the fire Of uncontrol, he takes in reckless hands,-- And ...
Who hath beheld the goddess face to face,Blind with her beauty, all his days shall goClimbing lone mountains towards her ...
Each form of beauty's but the new disguiseOf thoughts more beautiful than forms can be:Sceptics, who search with unanointed eyes,Never ...
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