Transcriber's note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer errors have been changed and are listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original.
IDYLLIC MONOLOGUES
Poems by Madison Cawein
OLD AND NEW WORLD VERSES
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"Undertones" "Garden of Dreams"
JOHN P. MORTON AND COMPANY
Publishers--Louisville, Kentucky
Copyrighted 1898
BY MADISON CAWEIN
TO MY FRIEND:
R. E. LEE GIBSON
This collection of poems is entirely new with the exception of three or four which appeared in two earlier volumes, published some ten years ago. The reprinted poems have been carefully re-written, and so changed throughout as to hardly bear any resemblance, except that of subject, to the original.
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Brothers 1
Geraldine 15
The Moated Manse 20
The Forester 35
My Lady of Verne 48
An Old Tale Re-told 55
The Water Witch 65
At Nineveh 70
How They Brought Aid to Bryan's Station 72
On the Jellico Spur of the Cumberlands 77
A Confession 83
Lilith 84
Content 86
Berrying 88
To a Pansy-Violet 90
Heart of my Heart 93
Witnesses 94
Wherefore 95
Pagan 96
"The Fathers of our Fathers" 97
"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" 99
Her Vivien Eyes 101
There was a Rose 102
The Artist 103
Poetry and Philosophy 103
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Idyllic Monologues by Madison J. Cawein
- 2: Still is it called The Locusts
- 3: That her eyes with tears were dim
- 4: And still no hint that might gainsay
- 5: Or thrice a brother's murderer
- 6: Geraldine I never dreamed you would forget
- 7: Geraldine I never dreamed you would forget
- 8: The wretched rain Dripped from her dark hair
- 9: Mounted like a man Isolda
- 10: He but attends me to the Moated Manse
- 11: And night and day They fled
- 12: Bloom by bloom I'd watched it wither
- 13: Who Succeeded Kurt with marriage of his child
- 14: The ban dogs roused a red gigantic stag
- 15: Then while the hour of midnight strikes
- 16: And I marked Kurt and his daughter here
- 17: Love and scorn Made haunts of her eyes
- 18: The Autumn harried the land and shore
- 19: And often we fared Through the Clare demesnes
- 20: Clara of Clare when only a child
- 21: That warmed his blood like a yule log's flame
- 22: Not one hound or huntsman follows
- 23: And the lake unholy Rippled
- 24: Nicholas Tomlinson and Thomas Bell
- 25: On the Jellico Spur of the CumberlandsTO J
- 26: While around us foliage tossed Coins
- 27: Great blood red poppies bloomed
- 28: To a Pansy VioletFound Solitary Among the Hills
- 29: Whom smiling heaven above Fostered
- 30: In the dust of a Christian Creed
- 31: Her Vivien Eyes Her Vivien eyes
- 32: Dead the aspiring spasms Of art and poesy