Madison Cawein
The Cup of Comus : Fact and Fancy
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The Cup of Comus : Fact and Fancy Author:Madison Cawein
Publisher: The Cameo Press
City:New York, N.Y.
Date:1915
THE CUP OF COMUS
FACT AND FANCY
BY
MADISON CAWEIN
MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF ARTS AND LETTERS
THE CAMEO PRESSNEW YORK
1915
Copyright, 1915, by
ROSE DE VAUX-ROYER
This edition is limited to Five Hundred copies of which this is Number 562
For permission to reprint most of the poems in this volume thanks are made to
the various magazines and periodicals in which they first appeared.
VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
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TO MY GOOD FRIEND
W. T. H. HOWE
Friend, for the sake of loves we hold in common,
The love of books, of paintings, rhyme and fiction;
And for the sake of that divine affliction,
The love of art, passing the love of woman; -By which all life's made nobler, superhuman,
Lifting the soul above, and, without friction
Of Time, that puts failure in his prediction,-Works to some end through hearts that dreams illumine:
To you I pour this Cup of Dreams -- a striver,
And dreamer too in this sad world,-- unwitting
Of that you do, the help that still assureth,-Lifts up the heart, struck down by that dark driver,
Despair, who, on Life's pack-horse -- effort -- sitting,
Rides down Ambition through whom Art endureth.
THRENODY IN MAY
(In memory of Madison Cawein.)
Again the earth, miraculous with May,
Unfolds its vernal arras. Yesteryear
We strolled together 'neath the greening trees,
And heard the robin tune its flute note clear,
And watched above the white cloud squadrons veer,
And saw their shifting shadows drift away
Adown the Hudson, as ships seek the seas.
The scene ...
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