The poems of Madison Cawein

Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)

Volume I LYRICS AND OLD WORLD IDYLLS

[BLOOMS OF THE BERRY]

[Wine-warm winds that sigh and sing]

THE SWEET O' THE YEAR

A DEAD LILY

THE FAMILY BURYING GROUND

[IN THE GARDENS OF FALERINA]

TO GERTRUDE

THE GARDENS OF FALERINA

YOLANDA OF THE TOWERS

THE EVE OF ALL-SAINTS

MATER DOLOROSA

LOVE AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF LOUIS XIV

THE TROUBADOUR

MY ROMANCE

THE EPIC

THE MINSTREL AND THE PRINCESS

THE ALCALDE'S DAUGHTER

ISHMAEL

IN MYTHIC SEAS

LOKÉ AND SIGYN

WAR-SONG OF HARALD THE RED

PEREDUR, THE SON OF EVRAWC

ISOLT

THE DREAM OF SIR GALAHAD

THE LADY OF THE HILLS

THE DEMON LOVER

A PRINCESS OF THULE

THE DAUGHTER OF MERLIN

THE KHALIF AND THE ARAB

Volume II NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND POEMS OF LOVE

[NEW WORLD IDYLLS]

[O lyrist of the lowly and the true]

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THE IDYLL OF THE STANDING-STONE

SOME SUMMER DAYS

AN EPIC OF SOUTH-FORK

A NIELLO

DEEP IN THE FOREST

I SPRING ON THE HILLS

WAR-TIME SILHOUETTES.

[What though I dreamed of mountain heights]

ANDALIA AND THE SPRINGTIME

OLIVIA IN THE AUTUMN

SYLVIA OF THE WOODLAND

THE TOLLMAN'S DAUGHTER

“IF I WERE HER LOVER”

NOËRA

AMONG THE ACRES OF THE WOOD

WHEN SHIPS PUT OUT TO SEA

“THIS IS THE FACE OF HER”

THE DAUGHTER OF THE SNOW

THE SPIRIT OF THE STAR

THE SPIRIT OF THE VAN

THE CAVERNS OF KAF

THE SALAMANDER

LYANNA.

THE SPIRITS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS

“WHEN SHE DRAWS NEAR”

THE GLORY AND THE DREAM

IN THE GARDEN OF GIRLS

A DAUGHTER OF THE STATES

Volume III NATURE POEMS

PROLOGUE

[IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEECHES]

IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEECHES

A FALLEN BEECH

A COIGNE OF THE FOREST

BLACK VESPER'S PAGEANTS

“A BROKEN RAINBOW ON THE SKIES OF MAY”

ON THE JELLICO SPUR OF THE CUMBERLANDS

THE WHIPPOORWILL

IN THE WILDWOOD

A HOLLOW OF THE HILLS

THE MOOD O' THE EARTH

NOONING

THE LOG-BRIDGE

AMONG THE KNOBS

THE FALLS OF THE OHIO

TANSY AND SWEET-ALYSSUM

A FLOWER OF THE FIELDS

“CLOUDS OF THE AUTUMN NIGHT”

THEN AND NOW

BY THE TRYSTING-BEECH

AFTER LONG GRIEF AND PAIN

THE PATH BY THE CREEK

THE MESSAGE OF THE LILIES

POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY

THE LAND OF HEARTS MADE WHOLE

UNDER THE HUNTER'S MOON

THE SONG OF THE THRUSH

LOVE, THE INTERPRETER

A. D. NINETEEN HUNDRED

UNCALLED

QUATRAINS

AFTERWORD

Volume IV POEMS OF MYSTERY AND OF MYTH AND ROMANCE

THE IMAGE IN THE GLASS

THE LEGEND OF THE STONE

THE RUINED MILL

ON FLOYD'S FORK

THE WOMAN BY THE WATER

A REED SHAKEN WITH THE WIND

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN

THE DANCE OF THE FAIRIES

ON THE EVE OF ST. JOHN

THE MOTH, THE ROSE, AND THE PINK

A MOTIVE IN GOLD AND GRAY

INTIMATIONS

SELF AND SOUL

THE OLD HOUSE BY THE MERE

[POEMS OF MYTH AND ROMANCE]

PARTING OF LEANDER AND HERO

THE SPIRIT OF THE FOREST SPRING

FIELD AND FOREST CALL

THE DREAM OF RODERICK

TO HARRISON S. MORRIS

SONG AND STORY

AN INDIAN LEGEND

JOHN DAVIS, BOUCANIER

THE END OF THE CENTURY

THE ISLE OF VOICES

THE WATCHER

AT THE SIGN OF THE SKULL

DUM VIVIMUS

FAILURE

THE CUP OF JOY

LA JEUNESSE ET LA MORT

Volume V Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field

TO GERTRUDE

[POEMS OF MEDITATION]

INTIMATIONS OF THE BEAUTIFUL

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PROEM TO “UNDERTONES”

UNQUALIFIED

UNENCOURAGED ASPIRATION

DISENCHANTMENT OF DEATH

“WHEN THE WINE-CUP AT THE LIP”

THE BETTER LOT

PASSION

THE TROGLODYTE

THE EVANESCENT BEAUTIFUL

THE HIGHER BROTHERHOOD

THE JESSAMINE AND THE MORNING-GLORY

THE TOAD IN THE SKULL

TO ONE READING THE MORTE D'ARTHURE

TIME AND DEATH AND LOVE

THE SPRING IN FLORIDA

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

[POEMS OF FOREST AND FIELD]

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THE FOREST OF SHADOWS

“ROSE LEAVES, WHEN THE ROSE IS DEAD”

MUSIC AND MOONLIGHT

THE AWAKENING

THE VALE OF TEMPE

THE BALLAD OF LOW-LIE-DOWN

THE LAMP AT THE WINDOW

THE MIRACLE OF THE DAWN

PENETRALIA

THE HEAVEN-BORN

THE BALLAD OF THE ROSE

BERTRAND DE BORN

THE TROUBADOUR, PONS DE CAPDEUIL

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A DEAD LILY

The South saluted her mouth
Till her breath was sweet with the South.

The North in her ear breathed low,
Till her veins ran crystal and snow.

The West 'neath her eyelids blew,
Till her heart beat honey and dew.

And the East with his magic old
Changed her body to pearl and gold.

And she stood like a beautiful thought
That a godhead of love had wrought. . . .

How strange that the Power begot it
Only to kill it and rot it!

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A DEAD LILY