The salmon-colored broomsedge seems sunset fire fallen on the autumn fields. The puddles left of last night's rain gleam like mirrors of polished steel. Among the awns and beards of the bristling gray grasses the wind hisses angrily, and a solitary climbing cricket mournfully moves its wings, making a quavering
Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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- 1906
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"Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAP5363.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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and reedy music. The sun slopes slowly towards his setting, and there, in a black cloud, suddenly an eye seems to shape itself, oblong, sinister, narrowed to a line of flame, glaring as a fiend might from behind dark folds of haunted arras.