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

Volume III

NATURE POEMS

Illustrated
WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS
BY ERIC PAPE

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1893, 1896, 1898,
1899, 1901, 1902 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

DOCTOR HENRY A. COTTELL

WHOSE KIND WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND APPROVAL

HAVE ENCOURAGED ME WHEN I MOST

NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENT

IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEECHES
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Along the Ohio	56
Among the Knobs	124
Autumn	53
Beneath the Beeches	99
Black Vesper’s Pageants	22
Boy Columbus, The	80
Bridle-Path, The	101
Brook, The	145
“Broken Rainbow on the Skies of May, A”	71
Coigne of the Forest, A	6
Dream, The	63
Dreams	143
Fall Fancies	134
Fallen Beech, A	3
Falls of the Ohio, The	127
Farmstead, The	74
Forest and Field	29
Grasshopper, The	27
Gray Day, A	113
Haunted House, The	49
Heart O’ Spring, The	69
Heat	16
Hollow of the Hills, A	97
House in the Hills, A	8
In the Shadow of the Beeches	1
In the Wildwood	96
Indian Summer	42
Late October	136
Log-Bridge, The	121
Mill-Water, The	60
Mood O’ the Earth, The	116
Night	47
Nooning	119
North Beach, Florida	82
November Walk, A	138
Old Farm, The	106
Old Inn, The	58
Old Swing, The	146
On the Jellico Spur of the Cumberlands	87
Orgie	73
Rain in the Woods	13
Sleet-Storm in May, A	67
Spring Twilight	65
Storm, The	84
Summer	38
To Autumn	148
To Sorrow	44
To Summer	110
Twilight Moth, A	24
Vintager, The	21
Whippoorwill, The	94
White Evening, The	141
Wind, The	10
Winter Dreams	149
Young September	19
TANSY AND SWEET-ALYSSUM
Abandoned	233
After Long Grief and Pain	171
Airy Tongues	184
Ambition	243
Arcana	236
Autumn Sorrow	212
Baby Mary	197
Bare Boughs	191
Before the End	226
By the Trysting-Beech	170
Clearing	210
“Clouds of the Autumn Night”	167
Cold	228
Comradery	174
Comrades	161
Creek-Road, The	232
Covered Bridge, The	231
Dark Day of Summer, A	213
Days and Days	214
Despair	245
Despondency	244
Drouth in Autumn	215
Dusk in the Woods	159
Fen-Fire, The	199
Flower of the Fields, A	153
Fulfillment	237
Haunted Woodland, The	172
Hills of the West	204
Hillside Grave, The	230
Hoar-Frost	227
Home	158
Imperfection	235
In Summer	216
In Winter	218
Last Word, A	249
Music and Sleep	242
Occult	176
Old Song, An	196
Omens	234
On Stony-Run	156
On the Farm	219
Opium	241
Paths	221
Quatrains	246
Rain and Wind	186
Red-Bird, The	209
Rock, The	163
Snow	195
Somnambulist, The	240
Song in Season, A	224
Standing-Stone Creek	165
Sunset Fancy, A	198
Then and Now	169
Threnody, A	193
Too Late	238
Under Arcturus	188
Willow Bottom, The	207
Wind at Night, The	183
Wind of Spring, The	206
Winter Moon, The	229
Witch, The	239
Wood, The	200
Wood Notes	202
Wood Words	178
WEEDS BY THE WALL
After Rain	308
Age of Gold, The	313
Along the Stream	275
Anthem of Dawn	331
Artist, The	347
At the Lane’s End	334
Beech Blooms	294
Before the Rain	306
Bluebird, The	363
Broken Drouth, The	286
Can Such Things Be	345
Caverns	364
Chipmunk, The	266
Cricket, The	259
Dreamer, The	355
Drouth	283
Enchantment	343
Feud	288
Foreword	253
Immortelles	320
In the Forest	344
Knight-Errant	346
Love of Loves, The	316
Lullaby, A	321
Message of the Lilies, The	329
Mid-winter	357
Musings	325
On Chenoweth’s Run	300
Path by the Creek, The	271
Pestilence	324
Poetry and Philosophy	348
Quatrains	351
Quest, The	304
“Quo Vadis”	349
Reincarnation	299
Requiescat	302
Response	360
Riches	312
Road Home, The	280
Screech-Owl, The	264
Simulacra	362
Song for Labor, A	314
Spring	358
Sunset and Storm	293
Sunset Clouds	311
Swashbuckler, The	361
Tree Toad, The	262
Three Things	318
To a Critic	350
Transformation	359
Unanointed	290
Unheard	298
Voices	278
Wild Iris, The	268
Winter	356
Worship	297
A VOICE ON THE WIND
A. D. Nineteen Hundred	479
Adventurers	457
Afterword	483
Allurement	422
August	423
Bush-Sparrow, The	426
Content	443
Communicants	420
Dead Day, The	421
Death of Love, The	462
Discovery	447
Dream Shape, A	432
Dusk	473
Earth and Moon	472
End of Summer, The	475
Epiphany	408
Evening on the Farm	401
Fall	440
Forest Spring, The	450
Frost	456
Hills, The	452
In the Lane	406
Invocation	458
July	398
Land of Hearts Made Whole, The	372
Leaf-Cricket, The	384
Life	409
Light and Wind	469
Love Despised	465
Love, The Interpreter	464
Maid Who Died Old, A	418
May	438
Meeting in the Woods	413
Music	430
October	445
Of the Slums	468
Old Barn, The	434
Old Spring, The	448
Owlet, The	387
Passing Glory, The	476
Pearls	466
Poet, The	390
Proem	367
Prototypes	477
Quatrains	481
Quiet	429
Rain	439
Rose and Rue	415
September	474
Song of the Thrush, The	454
Summer Noontide	393
Sunset in Autumn	441
Superstition	478
To the Locust	396
Touches	471
Transmutation	455
Unanswered	463
Uncalled	480
Under the Hunter’s Moon	404
Voice on the Wind, A	369
Wind of Summer, The	378
Wind of Winter, The	382
Winds, The	470
Woman Speaks, The	467
Wood Witch, The	436

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 3 (of 5)

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

Volume III

NATURE POEMS

CONTENTS

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 3 (of 5)

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

CONTENTS

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

Volume III

NATURE POEMS