New poems / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]

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Cawein, Madison Julius,1865-1914.

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London: Grant Richards

1909

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"New poems / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH7936.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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 THE GOLDEN HOUR  GOLD-HAIRED she stood among the golden-rod, A girl, embodying all the Golden Age, Who made that autumn day a glorious page Out of a book of gold inspired of God And made for Him by priests and worshippers Of Truth and Beauty, putting their praise in gold. — The golden blossoms round her and, gold-rolled, The fields before, were as a golden verse Of which she was the bright initial: she! My heart-song's gold beginning, from whom grew Love's golden ritual, filled with aureate gleams And music, which my soul read wonderingly Within Love's book of gold, that mightily drew Our souls together, binding them with dreams.      