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Nature-notes and impressions in prose and verse
Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)
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[Would I could talk as the flowers talk]
NATURE-NOTES and IMPRESSIONS
1883–1886
1887–1890
1891–1900
[A vagabond foot and a vagabond road]
[As, all distraught, with dark, neglected hair]
[The milkweeds nod their Rip-Van-Winkle heads]
[In the Garden of Skulls and Serpents]
[The pure precision of a star, a flower]
[I have listened long unto the promises]
[I saw the Spring go by, her mouth a thread]
[An Eldorado of vales and peaks]
[A rune of glimmer and a scrawl of light]
[The deep blue spike of the great lobelia glows]
[I gazed upon the wasted lips of Want]
[Green in the circle of contingent trees]
[On every side the roses rise]
[The shadows where no light looked through]
[With all my heart I deem it no great folly]
[What bird is that that sings so long]
[The sunset lets its heavy curtains down]
[These are the cups of Comus]
[Yea; death behind her, gazing through her hair]
[The blue wild hyssop, with its dewy mouth]
[Drab-colored seed pods of the autumn hung]
[A poet's soul 's unconscious of its dreams]
[The bright half moon, a boat pearl-white]
[When earth forgets one flower that comes with spring]
[All night it rained. Now in the dawn]
[I love to linger o'er the roseless rose]
[The auroral scent of morning lilies blows]
[As I went riding toward the sea]
[Clung o'er with cockle-burrs and thorny seeds]
1901–1905
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[Her eyes were dark with the darkness of hell]
Her eyes were dark with the darkness of hell
And sweet with the sweetness of sin,
And I was a dream of love, they tell,
To her eyes that entered in.
Nature-notes and impressions in prose and verse