The Author's thanks are due to Mr. R. H. RUSSELL, of New York, for kind permission to reprint from _Shapes and Shadows_ four of the poems published in this volume.
KENTUCKY POEMS
BY MADISON CAWEIN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EDMUND GOSSE
NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO. 1903
NOTE
The poems included in this volume have been selected from the following volumes of the author: _Moods and Memories_, _Red Leaves and Roses_, _Poems of Nature and Love_, _Intimations of the Beautiful_, _Days and Dreams_, _Undertones_, _Idyllic Monologues_, _The Garden of Dreams_, _Shapes and Shadows_, _Myth and Romance_, and _Weeds by the Wall_. None of the longer poems have been included in this selection.
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
FOREST AND FIELD
SUMMER
TO SORROW
NIGHT
A FALLEN BEECH
A TWILIGHT MOTH
THE GRASSHOPPER
BEFORE THE RAIN
AFTER RAIN
THE HAUNTED HOUSE
OCTOBER
INDIAN SUMMER
ALONG THE OHIO
A COIGN OF THE FOREST
CREOLE SERENADE
WILL O' THE WISPS
THE TOLLMAN'S DAUGHTER
THE BOY COLUMBUS
SONG OF THE ELF
THE OLD INN
THE MILL-WATER
THE DREAM
SPRING TWILIGHT
A SLEET-STORM IN MAY
UNREQUITED
THE HEART O' SPRING
'A BROKEN RAINBOW ON THE SKIES OF MAY'
ORGIE
REVERIE
LETHE
DIONYSIA
THE NAIAD
THE LIMNAD
INTIMATIONS
BEFORE THE TEMPLE
ANTHEM OF DAWN
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
- 2: With a greater lack of grave consideration than America
- 3: Cawein asks 'The song birds
- 4: The virgin timber forests of Kentucky
- 5: That in the hot weeds creaks and creaks
- 6: The berriers with gibe and song
- 7: The song of some fair harvester
- 8: Sucking at some horn of honey dew
- 9: Thou comest with thy children in thine arms
- 10: Visitors for whom thou oft didst hearken
- 11: What spell dost bear from listening plant to plant
- 12: Leaning on the woodland wildness
- 13: V Gazing down in her white shroud
- 14: ' He hath shattered the loom of the weaver
- 15: At night the moon stoops over it to rest
- 16: Bright in the moss of yonder tree
- 17: The wood bird hushed to hear her song
- 18: The wind sighs through the sycamores
- 19: And cuffed the blossoms from the blossoming quince
- 20: Beneath the musky rot of Autumn's leaves
- 21: Lily like clouds that whiten above
- 22: REVERIE What ogive gates from gold of Ophir wrought
- 23: Poppy and the pale Serpolet and galingale
- 24: Once having kissed Her virgin nudity
- 25: Murmuring to stars that glitter
- 26: O ghosts of the whispering waves
- 27: The beautiful daughters of Dawn
- 28: And the wheezy belts of their bellows hum
- 29: Swinging in the grape vine swings
- 30: Within the darkling Twilight
- 31: Its taper lit In the honey scented gloam
- 32: Then silence and the trampled bushes swayed
- 33: Full Of footprints down to the quarry pool
- 34: Or sitting under bowers Of greenery
- 35: Gaunt clouds like harpies hang In harpy heavens
- 36: With red lips sweeter than Arabian storax
- 37: And mazy shadows that the fireflies thrid
- 38: The azure stars of the bluet bloom
- 39: That is Care's embodiment Or fortune
- 40: Bloomed o'er with rose and meadow rue
- 41: Or restless sunlight on the moss and weeds
- 42: Drips the spring my boyhood knew
- 43: Not for the one white liquid star
- 44: Down from the starry heavens whirls
- 45: Still dwells a memory in thy hollow flute
- 46: Of rock that labyrinths and night that drips
- 47: To sing the song at our finger tips
- 48: There 'mid Thy glorious ghosts