Madison Cawein
A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems
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About the print service:
Publisher: John P. Morton & Company
City:Louisville, Ky.
Date:1902
A Voice on the Wind
AND OTHER POEMS
by
Madison Cawein
LouisvilleJohn P. Morton & Company, Publishers1902
COPYRIGHTED 1902, BY MADISON CAWEIN
For permission to reprint several of the poems included in this volume thanks
are due to the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The Century Magazine, Smart
Set, Saturday Evening Post, and Lippincott' s Magazine.
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INSCRIBED
TO
EDMUND GOSSE
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF APPRECIATION AND ESTEEM
Proem.
A Voice On the Wind
The Land of Hearts Made Whole
The Wind of Winter
The Wind of Summer
The Spirit of the Forest Spring
To the Leaf-Cricket
The Owlet
Vine and Sycamore
The Poet
Evening On the Farm
The Brook
Summer Noontide
Heat
July
To the Locust
Young September.
Under the Hunter's Moon
Rain in the Woods
In the Lane
A Forest Idyl
Under the Rose
In Autumn
Epiphany
Life
Never
Meeting in the Woods
A Maid Who Died Old
Communicants
The Dead Day
Knight-Errant
The End of Summer
Light and Wind
Superstition
Uncalled
Love Despised
The Death of Love
Geraldine, Geraldine
Allurement
Black Vesper's Pageants.
PROEM.
OH, FOR A SOUL THAT FULFILLS
MUSIC LIKE THAT OF A BIRD!
THRILLING WITH RAPTURE THE HILLS,
HEEDLESS IF ANY ONE HEARD.
OR, LIKE THE FLOWER THAT BLOOMS
LONE IN THE MIDST OF THE TREES,
FILLING THE WOODS WITH PERFUMES,
CARELESS IF ANY ONE SEES.
OR, LIKE THE WANDERING WIND,
OVER THE MEADOWS THAT SWINGS,
BRINGING WILD SWEETS TO MANKIND,
KNOWING NOT THAT WHICH IT BRINGS.
OH, FOR A WAY TO IMPART!.
BEAUTY, NO MATTER HOW HARD!
LIKE UNTO NATURE, WHOSE ART
NEVER ONCE DREAMS OF REWARD.
A VOICE ON THE WIND
SHE walks with the ...
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