The Moonmen (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I stood in the forest on HURON HILL When the night was old and the world was still. The Wind was a ...
Madison Julius Cawein Poems (581 Poems)
The Ruined Mill (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
There is the ruined water-mill With its rotten wheel, that stands as still As its image that sleeps in the glassy pool Where ...
Disenchantment Of Death (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Hush! She is dead! Tread gently as the light Foots dim the weary room. Thou shalt behold. Look:--In death's ermine pomp of ...
Fairies (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On the tremulous coppice, From her plenteous hair, Large golden-rayed poppies Of moon-litten air The Night hath flung there. In the fern-favored hollow The fire-flies fleet Uncertainly ...
To Sorrow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O tear-eyed goddess of the marble brow, Who showerest snows of tresses on the night Of anguished temples! lonely watcher, thou Who bendest ...
Heat (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I Now is it as if Spring had never been, And Winter but a memory and dream, Here where the Summer stands, her ...
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 ...
To Revery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
What ogive gates from gold of Ophir wrought, What walls of bastioned Parian, lucid rose, What marts of crystal, for the eyes ...
“The Fairy Rade” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Ai me! why stood I on the bent When Summer wept o'er dying June! I saw the Fairy Folk ride faint Aneath the ...
Orlando Mad (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. In mail of black my limbs I girt, Angelica! And when the bugles clanged the charge, The rolling battle's bristling marge Beheld me a ...
“The Morn That Breaks Its Heart Of Gold” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From an ode "In Commemoration of the Founding of theMassachusetts Bay Colony."The morn that breaks its heart of goldAbove the ...
Substratum (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Hear you r o music in the creaks Made by the sallow grasshopper, Who in the hot weeds sharply breaks The mellow dryness ...
A Legend Of The Lily (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Pale as a star that shines through rain Her face was seen at the window-pane, Her sad, frail face that watched in ...
Dionysos (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
"O Dionysos! Dionysos! the ivy-crowned! O let me sing thy triumph ere I die!" Within my sleep a Maenad came to me: A ...
The Dream Of Christ (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I saw her twins of eyelids listless swoon Mesmeric eyes, Like the mild lapsing of a lulling tune On wide surprise, While slow the ...
The Path By The Creek (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
There is a path that leads Through purple iron-weeds, By button-bush and mallow Along a creek; A path that wildflowers hallow, That wild birds seek; Roofed ...
The Jessamine And The Morning-Glory (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. On a sheet of silver the morning-star lay Fresh, white as a baby child, And laughed and leaped in his lissome way, On ...
Musings (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
INSPIRATION. All who have toiled for Art, who've won or lost, Sat equal priests at her high Pentecost; Only the chrism and sacrament ...
To A Pansy-Violet (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Found Solitary Among the Hills. I. O pansy-violet, With early April wet, How frail and pure you look Lost in this glow-worm nook Of heaven-holding hills: Down ...
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 ...
August (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I Clad on with glowing beauty and the peace, Benign, of calm maturity, she stands Among her meadows and her orchard-lands, And on her ...
The Limnad (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. The lake she haunts lies dreamily 'Neath sleepy boughs of melody, And far away an olden sea, An olden sea booms mellow; And the ...
The Ideal (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thee have I seen in some waste Arden old, A white-browed maiden by a foaming stream, With eyes profound and looks like ...
A Niello (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IIt is not early spring and yetOf bloodroot blooms along the stream,And blotted banks of violet,My heart will dream.Is it ...
Poppy And Mandragora (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Let us go far from here!Here there is sadness in the early year:Here sorrow waits where joy went laughing late:The ...
Vine And Sycamore (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I Here where a tree and its wild liana, Leaning over the streamlet, grow, Once a nymph, like the moon'd Diana, Sat in the ...
Night (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Lo! where the car of Day down slopes of flame On burnished axle quits the drowsy skies! And as his snorting steeds ...
Going For The Cows (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. The juice-big apples' sullen gold, Like lazy Sultans laughed and lolled 'Mid heavy mats of leaves that lay Green-flatten'd 'gainst the glaring day; And ...
Treachery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Came a spicy smell of showers On the purple wings of night, And a pearl-encrusted crescent On the lake looked still and white, While ...
Along The Ohio (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Athwart a sky of brass rich ribs of gold; A bullion bulk the wide Ohio lies; Beneath the sunset, billowing manifold, The purple ...