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The poems of Madison Cawein
Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)
1.
Volume I LYRICS AND OLD WORLD IDYLLS
2.
Volume II NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND POEMS OF LOVE
3.
Volume III NATURE POEMS
PROLOGUE
[IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEECHES]
TANSY AND SWEET-ALYSSUM
[WEEDS BY THE WALL]
FOREWORD
THE CRICKET
THE TREE TOAD
THE SCREECH-OWL
THE CHIPMUNK
THE WILD IRIS
THE PATH BY THE CREEK
ALONG THE STREAM
VOICES
THE ROAD HOME
DROUTH
THE BROKEN DROUTH
FEUD
UNANOINTED
SUNSET AND STORM
BEECH BLOOMS
WORSHIP
UNHEARD
REINCARNATION
ON CHENOWETH'S RUN
REQUIESCAT
THE QUEST
BEFORE THE RAIN
AFTER RAIN
SUNSET CLOUDS
RICHES
THE AGE OF GOLD
A SONG FOR LABOR
THE LOVE OF LOVES
THREE THINGS
IMMORTELLES
A LULLABY
PESTILENCE
MUSINGS
THE MESSAGE OF THE LILIES
ANTHEM OF DAWN
AT THE LANE'S END
ENCHANTMENT
IN THE FOREST
CAN SUCH THINGS BE
KNIGHT-ERRANT
THE ARTIST
POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY
“QUO VADIS”
TO A CRITIC
QUATRAINS
THE DREAMER
WINTER
MID-WINTER
SPRING
TRANSFORMATION
RESPONSE
THE SWASHBUCKLER
SIMULACRA
THE BLUEBIRD
CAVERNS
A VOICE ON THE WIND
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