THE POEMS OF M A D I S O N C A W E I N Volume V Poems of Meditation and of Forest and…

Illustrated WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS BY ERIC PAPE INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1905 and 1907, by Madison Cawein

Copyright 1896, by Copeland and Day; 1898, by R. H. Russell PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. TO MY WIFE WHO HAS BEEN THE INSPIRATION OF MANY OF MY POEMS

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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INTIMATIONS OF THE BEAUTIFUL

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THE MOATED GRANGE

“There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana."—Shakespeare.

CIRCE

POPPY AND MANDRAGORA

ROSEMARY

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NIGHTSHADE

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LOTUS

MOLY

CHRYSELEPHANTINE

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SIBYLLINE

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ELEUSINIAN

ARGONAUT

SIC VOS NON VOBIS

WITH THE TIDE

APPORTIONMENT

ESOTERIC BEAUTY

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TEMPEST

REVELATION

ANALOGIES

MNEMONICS

ASSUMPTION

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PROEM TO “UNDERTONES”

UNQUALIFIED

UNENCOURAGED ASPIRATION

INTERPRETED

SECOND SIGHT

SUCCESS

THE HOUSE OF SONG

FLOWERS

DEAD SEA FRUIT

REQUIEM

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AT LAST

REMEMBERED

MONOCHROMES

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THE WORLD’S DESIRE

THE UNATTAINABLE

PROBLEMS

THE BEAUTIFUL

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WORLD’S ATTAINMENT

A BLOWN ROSE

NEPENTHE

ON A DIAL

UNUTTERABLE

QUESTIONINGS

FRAGMENTS

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DEITY

DISENCHANTMENT OF DEATH

SLEEP

CHATTERTON

THE SYMPHONY

A SONG FOR OLD AGE

“WHEN THE WINE-CUP AT THE LIP”

THE BETTER LOT

PASSION

THE TROGLODYTE

THE EVANESCENT BEAUTIFUL

THE HIGHER BROTHERHOOD

TO A WINDFLOWER

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MICROCOSM

FORTUNE

DEATH

THE SOUL

CONSCIENCE

YOUTH

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LIFE’S SEASONS

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THE LIGHT AND LARK

THE JESSAMINE AND THE MORNING-GLORY

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THE TOAD IN THE SKULL

THE MOONMEN

PHANTOMS

THE HOUSE OF DEATH

(A Dream)

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EIDOLONS

IDENTITIES

HALLOWE’EN

ANSWERED

UNFULFILLED

DIRGE

REST

CLAIRVOYANCE

THE IDEAL

TO ONE READING THE MORTE D’ARTHURE

THE CROSS

NIGHTFALL

PAUSE

ABOVE THE VALES

INSOMNIA

ENCOURAGEMENT

WHICH?

STORM

TIME AND DEATH AND LOVE

A PHANTASY

WHEREFORE

TRISTRAM AND ISOLT

NIGHT

DAWN

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THE OCKLAWAHA

THE MINORCAN

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THE SPRING IN FLORIDA

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LONG AGO

SELF

ASPIRATION

PEACE

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SIN

THE HOUSE OF FEAR

SATAN

OSSIAN

QUATRAINS

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The Love Chase

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The Garden of Days

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Faith and Facts

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Hell and Heaven

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Alchemy

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Trial

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Nightmare

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Clairvoyance

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The Flying Dutchman

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Destiny

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Fame, the Mermaid

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The Hours

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Despair

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The Misanthrope

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The Hun

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Greece

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Egypt

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Poe

Egypt Page 262

Quatrains

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Hawthorne

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Emerson

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Jaafer the Vizier

THE PURITANS’ CHRISTMAS

THE NEW YEAR

THE POET OF THE SIERRAS

AMERICA

“THE FATHERS OF OUR FATHERS”

Written February 24, 1898, on reading the latest news concerning the battleship Maine, blown up in Havana Harbor, February fifteenth.

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MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

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UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES

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OUR CAUSE

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AFTERWORD

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POEMS OF FOREST AND FIELD PROEM

THE HYLAS

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WIND AND CLOUD

A March Voluntary

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IN SOLITARY PLACES

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Making it chuckle and sing and speak Page 328

In Solitary Places

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THE MAN HUNT

THE FOREST OF SHADOWS

“ROSE LEAVES, WHEN THE ROSE IS DEAD”

MUSIC AND MOONLIGHT

THE AWAKENING

THE VALE OF TEMPE

THE BALLAD OF LOW-LIE-DOWN

VAGABONDS

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REVEALMENT

A YELLOW ROSE

WHIPPOORWILL TIME

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NOVEMBER

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Morning

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Noon

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Evening

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Night

HALLOWMAS

AUBADE

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WOMAN’S LOVE

AT MOONRISE

THE LAMP AT THE WINDOW

ACHIEVEMENT

MYSTERIES

A SONG OF THE SNOW

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THE WOOD WATER

THE EGRET HUNTER

THE MIRACLE OF THE DAWN

PENETRALIA

THE HEAVEN-BORN

THE BALLAD OF THE ROSE

BERTRAND DE BORN

Knight and Troubadour, to his Lady the beautiful Maenz of Martagnac.

THE TROUBADOUR, PONS DE CAPDEUIL

In Provence, to his Lady, Azalis de Mercœur in Anjou

THE OLD HOME

THE OLD HERB-MAN

THE SOLITARY

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FOOTPATHS

ELFIN

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AUTHORITIES

THE WILLOW WATER

ELUSION

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THE LOST GARDEN

LATE OCTOBER WOODS

IN THE BEECH WOODS

THE WORD IN THE WOOD

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THE NIGHT-WIND

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GOD’S GREEN BOOK

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A WET DAY

AFTER STORM

SUNSET ON THE RIVER

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TABERNACLES

THE CAT-BIRD

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DAYS COME AND GO

THE WANING YEAR

GRAY NOVEMBER

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WHAT OF IT THEN

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WOMANHOOD

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THE ROSE’S SECRET

THE HUSHED HOUSE

UNFORGOTTEN

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UNSUCCESS

A modern Poet addresses his Muse, to whom he has devoted the best Years of his Life

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THE FIRST QUARTER

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February

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March

ZERO

ON THE HILLTOP.

AUTUMN STORM

THE JONGLEUR

OLD SIR JOHN

IN AGES PAST

THE MISER

UNTO WHAT END