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]
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Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
1903
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INDIAN SUMMER
THE dawn is a warp of fever,The eve is a woof of fire;And the month is a singing weaverWeaving a red desire.
With stars Dawn dices with EvenFor the rosy gold they heapOn the blue of the day's deep heaven,On the black of the night's far deep.
It's—'Reins to the blood!' and 'Marry!'—The season's a prince who burnsWith the teasing lusts that harryHis heart for a wench who spurns.
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It's—'Crown us a beaker with sherry,To drink to the doxy's heels;A tankard of wine o' the berry,To lips like a cloven peel's.
' 'S death! if a king be saddened,Right so let a fool laugh lies:But wine! when a king is gladdened, And a woman's waist and her eyes.'
He hath shattered the loom of the weaver,And left but a leaf that flits,He hath seized heaven's gold, and a feverOf mist and of frost is its.
He hath tippled the buxom beauty,And gotten her hug and her kiss—The wide world's royal bootyTo pile at her feet for this.
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