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

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Poems / by Madison Cawein ; with a foreward by William Dean Howells [electronic text]
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Cawein, Madison, Julius, 1865-1914
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New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company
1911
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"Poems / by Madison Cawein ; with a foreward by William Dean Howells [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE8947.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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Among the woods they call to me — The lights that haunt the wood and stream; Voices of such white ecstasy As moves with hushed lips through a dream: They stand in auraed radiances, Or flash with nimbused limbs across Their golden shadows on the moss, Or slip in silver through the trees.

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What love can give the heart in me More hope and exaltation than The hand of light that tips the tree And beckons far from marts of man? That reaches foamy fingers through The broken ripple, and replies With sparkling speech of lips and eyes To souls who seek and still pursue.
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