Poems / by Madison Cawein ; with a foreward by William Dean Howells [electronic text]

CONTENTS

• The Poetry of Madison Cawein xiii
• Hymn to Spiritual Desire 1
• Beautiful-Bosomed, O Night 4
• Discovery 7
• O Maytime Woods 8
• The Redbird 10
• A Niëllo 12
• In May 16
• Aubade 18
• Apocalypse 20
• Penetralia 21
• Elusion 23
• Womanhood 26
• The Idyll of the Standing-Stone 27
• Noëra 29
• The Old Spring 32
• A Dreamer of Dreams 34
• Deep in the Forest
  • I. Spring on the Hills 37
  • II. Moss and Fern 38
  • III. The Thorn Tree 40
  • IV. The Hamadryad 42
• Preludes 44
• May 46
• What Little Things 47

• In the Shadow of the Beeches 48
• Unrequited 50
• The Solitary 51
• A Twilight Moth 52
• The Old Farm 54
• The Whippoorwill 58
• Revealment 60
• Hepaticas 61
• The Wind of Spring 63
• The Catbird 64
• The Woodland Grave 66
• Sunset Dreams 68
• The Old Byway 70
• "Below the Sunset's Range of Rose" 72
• Music of Summer 74
• Midsummer 77
• The Rain-Crow 80
• Field and Forest Call 82
• Old Homes 84
• The Forest Way 86
• Sunset and Storm 88
• Quiet Lanes 89
• One who loved Nature 93
• Garden Gossip 97
• Assumption 99
• Senorita 100
• Overseas 102
• Problems 105
• To a Windflower 106
• Voyagers 108
• The Spell 110
• Uncertainty 113

• In the Wood 116
• Since Then 118
• Dusk in the Woods 119
• Paths 121
• The Quest 123
• The Garden Dreams 125
• The Path to Faery 127
• There are Faeries 130
• The Spring of the Forest Spring 133
• In a Garden 135
• In the Lane 137
• The Window on the Hill 139
• The Picture 140
• Moly 141
• Poppy and Mandragora 144
• A Road Song 147
• Phantoms 148
• Intimations of the Beautiful 150
• October 165
• Friends 167
• Comradery 169
• Bare Boughs 171
• Days and Days 173
• Autumn Sorrow 174
• The Tree-Toad 175
• The Chipmunk 177
• The Wild Iris 179
• Drouth 181
• Rain 183
• At Sunset 184
• The Leaf-Cricket 185
• The Wind of Winter 188

• The Owlet 190
• Evening on the Farm 193
• The Locust 197
• The Dead Day 199
• The Old Water-Mill 200
• Argonauts 206
• "The Morn that breaks its Heart of Gold" 208
• A Voice on the Wind 212
• Requiem 215
• Lynchers 217
• The Parting 219
• Feud 221
• Ku Klux 223
• Eidolons 225
• The Man Hunt 227
• My Romance 229
• A Maid who died Old 231
• Ballad of Low-Lie-Down 233
• Romance 235
• Amadis and Oriana 238
• The Rosicrucian 240
• The Age of Gold 243
• Beauty and Art 244
• The Sea Spirit 246
• Gargaphie 248
• The Dead Oread 251
• The Faun 253
• The Paphian Venus 255
• Oriental Romance 259
• The Mameluke 261
• The Slave 263
• The Portrait 265

• The Black Knight 269
• In Arcady 278
• Prototypes 282
• March 283
• Dusk 284
• The Winds 285
• Light and Wind 286
• Enchantment 287
• Abandoned 288
• After Long Grief 289
• Mendicants 290
• The End of Summer 291
• November 292
• The Death of Love 294
• Unanswered 295
• The Swashbuskler 296
• Old Sir John 297
• Uncalled 298