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The poems of Madison Cawein
Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)
1.
Volume I LYRICS AND OLD WORLD IDYLLS
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Volume II NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND POEMS OF LOVE
[NEW WORLD IDYLLS]
[POEMS OF LOVE]
3.
Volume III NATURE POEMS
4.
Volume IV POEMS OF MYSTERY AND OF MYTH AND ROMANCE
5.
Volume V Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field
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The poems of Madison Cawein
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THE SOUL
An heritage of hopes and fears
And dreams and memory,
And vices of ten thousand years
God gives to thee.
A house of clay, the home of Fate,
Haunted of Love and Sin,
Where Death stands knocking at the gate
To let him in.
The poems of Madison Cawein