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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WHITE as a lily moulded of Earth's milkThat eve the moon bloomed in a hyacinth sky;Line 1 Soft in the gleaming glens the wind went by,Line 1 Faint as a phantom clothed in unseen silk:Bright as a naiad's leap, from shine to shadeThe runnel twinkled through the shaken brier;Line 1 Above the hills one long cloud, pulsed with fire,Line 1 Flashed like a great enchantment-welded blade.And when the western sky seemed some weird land,And night a witching spell at whose command Line 1
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Line 1 One sloping star fell green from heav'n; and deepLine 1 The warm rose opened for the moth to sleep;Then she, consenting, laid her hands in his,Line 1 And lifted up her lips for their first kiss.Line 1
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