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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TO FALL
SAD-HEARTED spirit of the solitudes,Who comest through the ruin-wedded woods!Gray-gowned with fog, gold-girdled with the gloomOf tawny twilights; burdened with perfumeOf rain-wet uplands, chilly with the mist;And all the beauty of the fire-kissedCold forests crimsoning thy indolent way,Odorous of death and drowsy with decay.I think of thee as seated 'mid the showersOf languid leaves that cover up the flowers,—The little flower-sisterhoods, whom JuneOnce gave wild sweetness to, as to a tune
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A singer gives her sours wild melody,—Watching the squirrel store his granary.Or, 'mid old orchards I have pictured thee:Thy hair's profusion blown about thy back;One lovely shoulder bathed with gypsy black;Upon thy palm one nestling check, and sweetThe rosy russets tumbled at thy feet.Was it a voice lamenting for the flowers?A heart-sick bird that sang of happier hours?A cricket dirging days that soon must die?Or did the ghost of Summer wander by?
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