Madison Julius Cawein Poems

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181.
The Lost Dream

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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182.
The Lust Of The World

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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183.
The Mameluke

I

She was a queen. 'Midst mutes and slaves,
A mameluke, he loved her.--Waves
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184.
The Man Hunt

THE woods stretch wild to the mountain side,
And the brush is deep where a man may hide,

They have brought the bloodhounds up again
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185.
The Miracle Of The Dawn

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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186.
The Name On The Tree

I saw a name carved on a tree —
'Julia';
A simpler name there could not be—
Julia:
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187.
Dirge

WHAT shall her silence keep
Under the sun?
Here, where the willows weep
And waters run;
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188.
The Land Of Candy

There was once a little boy —
So my father told me — who
Never cared for any toy,
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189.
The Leaf-Cricket

I

Small twilight singer
Of dew and mist: thou ghost-gray, gossamer winger
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190.
The Locust

Thou pulse of hotness, who, with reedlike breast,
Makest meridian music, long and loud,
Accentuating summer!-Dost thy best
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