Madison Julius Cawein Poems

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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I

She was a queen. 'Midst mutes and slaves,
A mameluke, he loved her.--Waves
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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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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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WHAT shall her silence keep
Under the sun?
Here, where the willows weep
And waters run;
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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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