Madison Julius Cawein Poems

What would it mean for you and me
If dawn should come no more!
Think of its gold along the sea,
Its rose above the shore!
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I saw a name carved on a tree —
'Julia';
A simpler name there could not be—
Julia:
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HE found the long room as it was of old,
Glimmering with sunset's gold;
That made the tapestries seem full of eyes
Strange with a wild surmise:
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THE black night showed its hungry teeth,
And gnawed with sleet at roof and pane;
Beneath the door I heard it breathe —
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SINCE Man first lifted up his eyes to hers
And saw her vampire beauty, which is lust,
All else is dust
Within the compass of the universe.
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There was once a little boy —
So my father told me — who
Never cared for any toy,
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I

Small twilight singer
Of dew and mist: thou ghost-gray, gossamer winger
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Thou pulse of hotness, who, with reedlike breast,
Makest meridian music, long and loud,
Accentuating summer!-Dost thy best
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With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,
Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,
All day she waited while, like ghostly ships,
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She passed the thorn-trees, whose gaunt branches tossed
Their spider-shadows round her; and the breeze,
Beneath the ashen moon, was full of frost,
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