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New poems by Madison Cawein

Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)

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THE MISTY MID-REGION
  
HESPERIAN
  
‘THAT NIGHT WHEN I CAME TO THE GRANGE’
  
THE ANGEL WITH THE BOOK
  
DREAM ROAD
  
THE PLACE
  
THE ROAD
  
THE OLD LANE
  
A FOREST CHILD
  
IN THE WOOD
  
GARDEN GOSSIP
  
THE OLD GATE MADE OF PICKETS
  
APRILIAN
  
A GHOST AND A DREAM
  
TRAMPS
  
LILITH'S LOVER
  
WITCHERY
  
THE FOREST WAY
  
HYLAS
  
THE WOOD THRUSH
  
ONE WHO LOVED NATURE
  
AVALON
  
THE YARROW
  
MIDSUMMER
  
WILLOW WOOD
  
ATTRIBUTES
  
A SONG OF THE ROAD
  
THE LESSON
  
VOICES
  
RAINLESS
  
AFTER AUTUMN RAIN
  
SEASONS
  
GARDEN AND GARDENER
  
A PRAYER FOR OLD AGE
  
THE SHADOW
  
NIGHT AND RAIN
  
HAUNTERS OF THE SILENCE
  
SOUNDS AND SIGHTS
  
FROST IN MAY
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IN THE STORM
 1. 
I
 2. 
II
  
ROSE AND LEAF
  
‘SOME RECKON TIME BY STARS’
  
DRAGON-SEED
  
LINCOLN
  
POE
  
MRS. BROWNING
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IN OLD NEW ENGLAND
  
THE NORTH SHORE
  
GIPSIES
  
WITH THE WIND
  
WOOD MYTHS
  
BY THE ANNISQUAM
  
GAMMER GAFFER
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SILHOUETTES AND SONNETS
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RIDERS IN THE NIGHT
  
MASKS
  
THE RAID
  
THE RENDEZVOUS
  
IN BLACK AND RED
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AN EPISODE
  
[There was a man rode into town one day]
  
[They said he'd sold tobacco; and he knew]
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THE FEUD
  
ITS BEGINNING
  
THE END
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THE MOUNTAIN-STILL
  
THE MOONSHINER
  
THE SHERIFF
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IN THE MOUNTAINS
  
LAND-MARKS
  
THE OX-TEAM
  
SONG OF THE NIGHT-RIDERS
  
THE TOWN WITCH
  
THE VILLAGE MISER
  
THE INFANTICIDE
  
THE HERB-GATHERER
  
THE RAG-PICKER
  
THE BOY IN THE RAIN
  
TREES
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CONSECRATION
  
[This is the place where visions come to dance]
  
[Here is the place where Lovliness keeps house]
  
[The road winds upward under whispering trees]
  
[Keep it, O dim recorders of grey years]
  
THE GOLDEN HOUR
  
OUR DREAMS
  
DROUTH
  
PREMONITION
  
AFTER A NIGHT OF RAIN
  
A MIDSUMMER DAY
  
THE CLOSE OF SUMMER
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MUTATIS MUTANDIS
  
THE FOOL
  
THE SCARECROW
  
SERVICE
  
THE APE
  
THE PESSIMIST
  
AN INCIDENT
  
VINDICATION
  
TREASURE
  
THE ASS
  
THE CABBAGE
  
THE CRIMINAL
  
DEATH AND THE FOOL
  
THE BAGPIPE
  
THE OX
  
THE GOOSE
  
THE BEAST
  
THE OWL
  
THE TOAD
  
THE CRICKET
  
THE TORRENT

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VINDICATION

Here is a tale for gossips and chaste people:
There lived a woman once, a straight-laced lady,
Whose only love was slander. Nothing shady
Escaped her vulture eye. Like some prim steeple
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Her course of life pointed to Heaven ever;
And woe unto the sinner, girl or woman,
Whom love undid.—She was their fiercest foeman.
No circumstance excused. Misfortune, never. ...
As she had lived she died. The mourners gathered:
Parson and preacher, this one and another,
And many gossips of most proper carriage.
Her will was read. And then ... a child was fathered.
Fat Lechery had his day. ... She'd been a mother.
A man was heir. ... There'd never been a marriage.
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