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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IT is the time when, by the forest falls,The touch-me-nots hang fairy folly-caps;Line 1 When ferns and flowers fill the lichened lapsLine 1 Of rocks with colour, rich as orient shawls:And in my heart I hear a voice that callsMe woodward, where the hamadryad wrapsLine 1 Her limbs in bark, and, bubbling in the saps,Line 1 Sings the sweet Greek of Pan's old madrigals:There is a gleam that lures me up the stream—A Naiad swimming with wet limbs of light? Line 1
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Line 1 Perfume that leads me on from dream to dream—An Oread's footprints fragrant with her flight?And, lo! meseems I am a Faun again,Line 1 Part of the myths that I pursue in vain.Line 1
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