THE POEMS OF M A D I S O N C A W E I N

Volume II NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND POEMS OF LOVE Illustrated WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS BY ERIC PAPE INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1905 and 1907, by Madison Cawein

Copyright, 1896, by Copeland and Day; 1898, by R. H Russell; 1901, by Richard G. Badger and Company

PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. WITH ENDURING FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND LOYALTY TO JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

CONTENTS

NEW WORLD IDYLLS

{1}

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER A Lyrical Eclogue

PART I LATE SPRING

I

Outside her garden. He waits musing:

II

Dusk deepens. A whippoorwill calls.

III

He enters the garden, speaking dreamily:

IV

She approaches, laughing. She speaks:

V

She stands smiling at him, shyly, then speaks:

VI

Moths flutter around them. She speaks:

VII

Taking her hand he says:

VIII

Then, regarding him seriously, she continues:

{11}

IX

Leaving the garden for the lane. He, with lightness of heart:

She, responding to his mood:

He

She

X

He, suddenly and very earnestly:

XI

She, musingly:

XII

He, with conviction:

XIII

They reënter the garden. She speaks somewhat pensively:

{21}

XIV

He, observing the various dowers around them:

{22}

XV

She, seriously:

XVI

He, looking smilingly into her eyes, after a pause, lightly:

XVII

She, pensively, standing among the flowers:

XVIII

He, at parting, as they proceed down the garden:

{27}

PART II EARLY SUMMER

I

She delays, meditating. A rainy afternoon.

II

They meet. He speaks:

She speaks:

III

They meet again under the greenwood tree. He speaks:

IV

Entering the skiff, she speaks:

V

He speaks, rowing:

She speaks:

He speaks:

VI

She sings:

VII

He speaks, letting the boat drift:

VIII

Landing, he sings:

{41}

She sings:

He speaks:

{42}

IX

Homeward through flowers; she speaks:

X

He speaks, musingly:

XI

She speaks, dreamily:

XII

He laughs, wishing to dispel her seriousness:

XIII

She interrupts him, speaking impetuously:

XIV

Nearing her home, he speaks:

XV

At the gate. She speaks:

XVI

He, at parting:

XVII

She tarries at the gate a moment, watching him disappear down the lane. He sings, and the sound of his singing grows fainter and fainter and at last dies away in the distance:

{52}

PART III LATE SUMMER

I

Musing, he strolls among the quiet lanes by farm and field:

II

He is reminded of another day with her:

III

He enters the woods. He sits down despondently:

IV

He proceeds in the direction of a stream:

V

He seats himself on a rock and gazes steadily into the stream:

VI

Taking a letter from his pocket, he hurries away:

VII

After the final meeting; the day following:

VIII

He walks aimlessly on:

IX

He compares the present day with a past one:

X

He pauses before a deserted house by the wayside:

XI

He proceeds on his way:

{81}

XII

Among the twilight fields:

{82}

PART IV LATE AUTUMN

I

Sick and sad, propped with pillows, she sits at her window:

II

She looks down upon the dying garden:

III

She muses upon the past:

IV

She takes up a book and reads:

V

She lays down the book, and sits musing:

VI

She writes to her lover to come to her:

VII

The wind rises; the trees are agitated:

VIII

She sits musing in the gathering twilight:

{94}

IX

He enters. Taking her in his arms he speaks:

X

She smiles on him through her tears; holding his hand she speaks:

PART V WINTER

I

In the silence of his room. After many days:

II

The bitterness of his bereavement speaks in him:

III

Her dead face seems to rise up before him:

IV

He sinks into deep thought:

{106}

V

He arouses from his abstraction, buries his face in his hands and thinks:

VI

He looks from his window toward the sombre west:

VII

He turns from the window, takes up a book, and reads:

VIII

The storm is heard sounding wildly outside with wind and hail:

{114}

IX

He sits by the slowly dying fire. The storm is heard with increased violence:

{116}

RED LEAVES AND ROSES

I

{117}

II

III

IV

{120}

V

VI

WILD THORN AND LILY

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

{144}

1

2

{146}

3

XIV

XV

XVI

{151}

XVII

XVIII

XIX

XX

XXI

{158}

XXII

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

XXIII

{161}

THE IDYLL OF THE STANDING-STONE

I

{163}

II

{165}

III

IV

V

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

VI

{171}

SOME SUMMER DAYS

I

{173}

II

III

IV

V

{180}

AN EPIC OF SOUTH-FORK

I

II

III

{189}

IV

{192}

A NIELLO

I

{193}

II

III

{196}

DEEP IN THE FOREST

I

SPRING ON THE HILLS

II

THE WOOD SPIRIT

{200}

III

OWL ROOST

IV

MOSS AND FERN

V

WOODLAND WATERS

VI

THE THORN-TREE

VII

THE HAMADRYAD

{209}

WRECKAGE

I

{210}

II

{212}

III

IV

V

VI

{217}

SIREN SANDS

I

II

III

{221}

Song

{222}

IV

WAR-TIME SILHOUETTES.

I

THE BATTLE

II

IN HOSPITAL

III

THE SOLDIER’S RETURN

IV

THE APPARITION

V

WOUNDED

VI

THE MESSAGE

VII

THE WOMAN ON THE HILL

{235}

MOSBY AT HAMILTON

{237}

THE FEUD

{239}

LYNCHERS

{241}

DEAD MAN’S RUN

{244}

THE RAID

I

{245}

II

{246}

THE BROTHERS

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

{259}

{260}

EPILOGUE

{263}

{262}

POEMS OF LOVE

{264}

{265}

{267}

GERTRUDE

{268}

LOVE

{269}

HEART OF MY HEART

I

II

{271}

STROLLERS

I

II

{272}

III

IV

V

{273}

VI

THE BURDEN OF DESIRE

I

{275}

II

{276}

THE TRYST

{278}

GYPSYING

{280}

UNCERTAINTY “‘He cometh not,’ she said.”—Mariana.

{283}

LOST LOVE

{285}

OVERSEAS Non numero horas nisi serenas.

{288}

AT THE STILE

{290}

FERN-SEED “We have the receipt of fern-seed; we walk invisible.”—Henry IV.

{292}

PORPHYROGENITA

I

II

{293}

III

IV

V

{295}

THE CASTLE OF LOVE He speaks

I

II

{296}

III

IV

V

VI

{298}

CONSECRATION She speaks.

{300}

ROMANTIC LOVE

I

II

{301}

III

IV

{302}

PASTORAL LOVE

ANDALIA AND THE SPRINGTIME

I

II

III

{306}

OLIVIA IN THE AUTUMN

{308}

SYLVIA OF THE WOODLAND

I

II

III

{310}

WITNESSES

I

II

III

{312}

A PUPIL OF PAN

{313}

LORA OF THE VALES

{315}

PLEDGES

I

II

{316}

III

ORIENTAL ROMANCE

I

II

{318}

III

IV

{319}

THE TOLLMAN’S DAUGHTER

{321}

CREOLE SERENADE

Sings:

{324}

IDEAL DIVINATION

APOCALYPSE

{328}

CAN I FORGET?

{329}

MY ROSE

{330}

RESTRAINT

{331}

IN JUNE

I

II

WILL O’ THE WISPS

{335}

IN A GARDEN

{337}

“IF I WERE HER LOVER”

I

{338}

II

III

{340}

NOËRA

{343}

AMONG THE ACRES OF THE WOOD

I

II

III

WORDS

{346}

THE SIRENS

{347}

WHY?

{348}

NOCTURNE

{350}

METAMORPHOSIS

{351}

AT TWENTY-ONE

{352}

KINSHIP

{353}

“SHE IS SO MUCH”

{354}

HER EYES

{355}

MESSENGERS

APART

I

II

III

{357}

THE BLIND GOD

{358}

CARA MIA

I

II

{359}

III

{360}

MARGERY

I

II

III

{362}

CONSTANCE

LYDIA

{365}

HELEN

{367}

MIGNON

{368}

TRANSUBSTANTIATION

I

II

{369}

LOVE AND A DAY

I

II

III

LOVE IN A GARDEN

I

II

III

{374}

FLORIDIAN

I

II

{376}

WHEN SHIPS PUT OUT TO SEA

I

II

III

IV

{378}

A CHRISTMAS CATCH

{380}

A SONG FOR YULE

I

II

{381}

III

{382}

CHORDS

I

II

III

{386}

AT HER GRAVE

I

II

{387}

III

IV

{388}

A CONFESSION

{390}

LAST DAYS

{391}

AT TWILIGHT

DAY AND NIGHT

{393}

THREE BIRDS

{394}

UNREQUITED

{395}

THE HEART’S DESIRE

{397}

OUT OF THE DEPTHS

I

II

III

{399}

“THIS IS THE FACE OF HER”

{401}

INDIFFERENCE

{402}

GHOST WEATHER

{403}

THE FOREST POOL

{405}

AT SUNSET

{406}

DEAD AND GONE

{407}

ONE NIGHT

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

{412}

THE PARTING

{414}

THE DAUGHTER OF THE SNOW

{417}

THE SPIRIT OF THE STAR (Love Spiritual)

“This union of the human soul with the divine æthereal substance of the universe, is the ancient doctrine of Pythagoras and Plato.”—Divine Legation.

{419}

{423}

THE SPIRIT OF THE VAN (Love Ideal)

“Among the mountains of Carmarthen, lies a beautiful and romantic piece of water, named The Van Pools. Tradition relates, that after midnight, on New Year’s Eve, there appears on this lake a being named The Spirit of the Van. She is dressed in a white robe, bound by a golden girdle; her hair is long and golden; her face is pale and melancholy.”—Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology.”

{431}

THE CAVERNS OF KAF (Love Sensual)

“‘Where am I?’ cried he; ‘what are these dreadful rocks? these valleys of darkness? are we arrived at the horrible Kaf?’”—Vathek.

{438}

THE SALAMANDER (Love Dæmonic)

“The Fire-Philosophers, and the Rosicrucians, or Illuminati, taught that all knowable things (both of the soul and of the body) were evolved out of fire, and finally resolvable into it: and that fire was the last and the only-to-be known God: as that all things were capable of being searched down into it, and all things were capable of being thought up into it.”—The Rosicrucians.

{447}

LYANNA.

“These elementary beings, we are told, were by their constitution more long-lived than man, but with this essential disadvantage, that at death they wholly ceased to exist. In the meantime they were inspired with an earnest desire for immortality; and there was one way left for them, by which this desire might be gratified. If they were so happy as to awaken in any of the initiated (Rosicrucians) a passion, the end of which was marriage, then the sylph became immortal.”—Godwin’s “Lives of the Necromancers.”

THE SPIRITS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS

Voices of Darkness

Voices of Light

{455}

Voices of Darkness

Voices of Light

Voices of Darkness

Voices of Light

Voices of Darkness

Voices of Light

Voices of the Break of Day

Voices of the Dawn

{459}

THE WATER WITCH

{464}

THE SUCCUBA

{469}

MASKS Cucullus non facit monachum

{473}

CARMEN

{476}

AT NINEVEH

{479}

SENORITA

{481}

SINCE THEN

AFTER DEATH

{483}

THE OLD MAN DREAMS

{485}

MEMORIES

{486}

MARCH AND MAY

{488}

IN AUTUMN

I

II

“WHEN SHE DRAWS NEAR”

I

II

{490}

REED CALL FOR APRIL

I

II

III

{492}

HER VIOLIN

I

II

III

{494}

MEETING IN SUMMER

{496}

HER VIVIEN EYES

{497}

REASONS

I

II

{498}

III

{499}

HER VESPER SONG

{501}

THE GLORY AND THE DREAM

{502}

SNOW AND FIRE

{503}

IN MAY

I

II

{504}

III

{505}

“WERE I AN ARTIST”

{507}

THE RIDE

AT PARTING

{511}

IN THE GARDEN OF GIRLS

{512}

“COME TO THE HILLS”

{513}

EVASION

I

II

{514}

III

{515}

WILL YOU FORGET?

{516}

CONTRASTS

{517}

CARISSIMA MEA

{519}

AN AUTUMN NIGHT

{521}

A DAUGHTER OF THE STATES

{522}

THE QUARREL

{524}

MIRIAM

{525}

THE SUMMER SEA

{527}

FINALE

{529}

CONCLUSION