ACCOLON OF GAUL
WITH
OTHER POEMS.
BY MADISON J. CAWEIN.
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LOUISVILLE.
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY.
1889
COPYRIGHTED BY
MADISON J. CAWEIN.
1889
With all my Heart
to
LILIAN AND ROSE.
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CONTENTS.
Accolon of Gaul, 1
Der Freischutz, 65
To Revery, 82
Late October, 85
An Anemone, 88
The Rain-Crow, 90
Loveliness, 92
The Last Scion of the House of Clare, 95
On the Jellico-Spur, 105
Senorita, 111
Leander to Hero, 113
Musagetes, 116
The Quarrel, 118
The Mood o' the Earth, 119
A Gray Day, 122
Carmen, 125
Disenchantment of Death, 128
The Three Urgandas, 131
The Brush Sparrow, 135
CHORDS
I. Sleep while I sing to thee, 138
II. Floats a wild chant of morning, 139
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Accolon of Gaul by Madison J. Cawein
- 2: From Breceliande and Merlin she is gone
- 3: Thou askest with thy studious eyes again
- 4: Will love grow less when comes queen Summer tall
- 5: Tossed upward merrily By streaming mermaids
- 6: ' Is radiance loved of radiance
- 7: Thro' deepening eyes and drowsy breath
- 8: And Urience Left his gray hunter dying near
- 9: But Damas dotes on life so courageless
- 10: Or in the misty morning shadowy Loomed grave for audience
- 11: My garth wherein I walk to think
- 12: Wet varnished with dripped dew
- 13: He said and Accolon looked on the sword
- 14: And buckled with a buckle white that shone
- 15: Of rich And bronzen laton hammered
- 16: So King Arthur shook Sir Accolon and headlong flung
- 17: Then low bespake him grimly Accolon
- 18: Regenerate Another monarch rises Accolon
- 19: And there the mail of Urience shone
- 20: When Urience slipped One arm
- 21: A crowned lust that cried On Accolon
- 22: A fiend for friend While Earth is of the earth
- 23: Beneath the dungeoned Dummburg
- 24: But death to him who slew the man and stag
- 25: The first bullet leaves the mold
- 26: And into the haunted Harz Fled
- 27: There darkling the consummate vintage sleeps
- 28: A coigne for vainest dragonflies
- 29: Indented moss and plushy grass
- 30: Forth and spit me this Clifford
- 31: Were wed to this Lovell this Christmas Eve
- 32: By that postern we Like shadows lurked
- 33: Stretched beneath the chestnuts' burrs
- 34: Mantled mists like ambushed braves
- 35: And we clomb through a murmur of pinions
- 36: And the Heaven's deep skies are blue
- 37: A freshness of gathering musk O'er the showery lawns
- 38: Like musick quickening slow Dark the dead germs
- 39: Cast on sleep there came to me Three Urgandas
- 40: Gaunt clouds like harpies hang In harpy heavens
- 41: And the blade bare charioteers for life
- 42: Budding kisses curled with blown desire
- 43: Athwart with a stab of glittering fire
- 44: Loosens the loops of her locks
- 45: Of the moonlight and starlight begotten
- 46: Pucker eyed didst mark Yon lank hag tapers