Kentucky poems / Madison Cawein; with an introd. by Edmund Gosse [electronic text]
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Kentucky poems / Madison Cawein; with an introd. by Edmund Gosse [electronic text]
Author
Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
1903
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MID-WINTER
ALL day the clouds hung ashen with the cold;And through the snow the muffled waters fell;Line 1 The day seemed drowned in grief too deep to tell,Line 1 Like some old hermit whose last bead is told.At eve the wind woke, and the snow clouds rolledAside to leave the fierce sky visible;Line 1 Harsh as an iron landscape of wan hellLine 1 The dark hills hung framed in with gloomy gold.And then, towards night, the wind seemed some one at
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My window wailing: now a little childLine 1 Crying outside my door; and now the longLine 1 Howl of some starved beast down the flue. I satAnd knew 'twas Winter with his madman songLine 1 Of miseries on which he stared and smiled.Line 1
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