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
Publication
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
1903
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RESPONSE
THERE is a music of immaculate love,That beats within the virgin veins of Spring,—Line 1 And trillium blossoms, like the stars that clingTo fairies' wands; and, strung on sprays above,White-hearts and mandrake blooms—that look enoughLike the elves' washing—white with launderingLine 1 Of May-moon dews; and all pale-openingLine 1 Wild-flowers of the woods are born thereof.There is no sod Spring's white foot brushes but
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Must feel the music that vibrates within,Line 1 And thrill to the communicated touchLine 1 Responsive harmonies, that must unshutThe heart of Beauty for Song's concrete kin,Line 1 Emotions—that are flowers—born of such.Line 1
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