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The poems of Madison Cawein

Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)

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Volume I LYRICS AND OLD WORLD IDYLLS
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Volume II NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND POEMS OF LOVE
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Volume III NATURE POEMS
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Volume IV POEMS OF MYSTERY AND OF MYTH AND ROMANCE
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Volume V Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field
  
TO GERTRUDE
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[POEMS OF MEDITATION]
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INTIMATIONS OF THE BEAUTIFUL
  
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LXVII
  
THE MOATED GRANGE
  
CIRCE
  
POPPY AND MANDRAGORA
  
ROSEMARY
  
NIGHTSHADE
  
LOTUS
  
MOLY
  
CHRYSELEPHANTINE
  
SIBYLLINE
  
ELEUSINIAN
  
ARGONAUT
  
SIC VOS NON VOBIS
  
WITH THE TIDE
  
APPORTIONMENT
  
ESOTERIC BEAUTY
  
TEMPEST
  
REVELATION
  
ANALOGIES
  
MNEMONICS
  
ASSUMPTION
  
PROEM TO “UNDERTONES”
  
UNQUALIFIED
  
UNENCOURAGED ASPIRATION
  
INTERPRETED
  
SECOND SIGHT
  
SUCCESS
  
THE HOUSE OF SONG
  
FLOWERS
  
DEAD SEA FRUIT
  
REQUIEM
  
AT LAST
  
REMEMBERED
  
MONOCHROMES
  
THE WORLD'S DESIRE
  
THE UNATTAINABLE
  
PROBLEMS
  
THE BEAUTIFUL
  
WORLD'S ATTAINMENT
  
A BLOWN ROSE
  
NEPENTHE
  
ON A DIAL
  
UNUTTERABLE
  
QUESTIONINGS
  
FRAGMENTS
  
DEITY
  
DISENCHANTMENT OF DEATH
  
SLEEP
  
CHATTERTON
  
THE SYMPHONY
  
A SONG FOR OLD AGE
  
“WHEN THE WINE-CUP AT THE LIP”
  
THE BETTER LOT
  
PASSION
  
THE TROGLODYTE
  
THE EVANESCENT BEAUTIFUL
  
THE HIGHER BROTHERHOOD
  
TO A WINDFLOWER
  
MICROCOSM
  
FORTUNE
  
DEATH
  
THE SOUL
  
CONSCIENCE
  
YOUTH
  
LIFE'S SEASONS
  
THE LIGHT AND LARK
  
THE JESSAMINE AND THE MORNING-GLORY
  
THE TOAD IN THE SKULL
  
THE MOONMEN
  
PHANTOMS
  
THE HOUSE OF DEATH
  
EIDOLONS
  
IDENTITIES
  
HALLOWE'EN
  
ANSWERED
  
UNFULFILLED
  
DIRGE
  
REST
  
CLAIRVOYANCE
  
THE IDEAL
  
TO ONE READING THE MORTE D'ARTHURE
  
THE CROSS
  
NIGHTFALL
  
PAUSE
  
ABOVE THE VALES
  
INSOMNIA
  
ENCOURAGEMENT
  
WHICH?
  
STORM
  
TIME AND DEATH AND LOVE
  
A PHANTASY
  
WHEREFORE
  
TRISTRAM AND ISOLT
  
NIGHT
  
DAWN
  
THE OCKLAWAHA
  
THE MINORCAN
  
THE SPRING IN FLORIDA
  
LONG AGO
  
SELF
  
ASPIRATION
  
PEACE
  
SIN
  
THE HOUSE OF FEAR
  
SATAN
  
OSSIAN
  
QUATRAINS
  
THE PURITANS' CHRISTMAS
  
THE NEW YEAR
  
THE POET OF THE SIERRAS
  
AMERICA
  
“THE FATHERS OF OUR FATHERS”
  
MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN
  
UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES
  
OUR CAUSE
  
AFTERWORD
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[POEMS OF FOREST AND FIELD]
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THE END OF ALL

I

I do not love you now,
O narrow heart, that had no heights but pride!
You, whom mine fed; to whom yours still denied
Food when mine hungered; and of which love died—
I do not love you now.

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I do not love you now,
O shallow soul, with depths but to deceive!
You, whom mine watered; to whom yours did give
No drop to drink to help my love to live—
I do not love you now.
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III

I do not love you now!
But did I love you in the old, old way,
And knew you loved me—'though the words should slay
Me and your love forever, I would say,
“I do not love you now!
I do not love you now!”
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