American
Madison Cawein
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) was an American poet, born in Louisville, Kentucky, who wrote chiefly of the woods and fields of his native state.
He published many volumes of verse, beginning with Blooms of the Berry (1887).
Poems (974)
- Snow
- The Man Hunt
- Penury
- Deserted
- Here is the Place where Loveliness keeps House
- The Path to the Woods
- Under Arcturus
- The Wood God
- Loveliness
- Waiting
- Longings
- The Sweet O' the Year
- In Middle Spring
- A Spring Shower
- Hepaticas
- Spirits of Spring
- Mirabile Dictu
- A Dreamer of Dreams
- Pan
- A Stormy Sunset
- A Woodland Grave
- The Old Byway
- The Woodpath
- The Sound of the Sap
- The Dryad
- A Dead Lily
- The Dead Oread
- Pax Vobiscum
- At Rest
- Distance
- Deficiency
- Midsummer
- Diurnal
- The Family Burying Ground
- Clouds
- The Heron
- Avatars
- Lillita
- Miriam
- Two Days
- Moonrise at Sea
- In November
- In Late Fall
- With the Seasons
- Tyranny
- What You Will
- Midwinter
- To Gertrude
- The Gardens of Falerina
- Romance
- The Valley of Music
- Blodeuwedd
- Amadis at Miraflores
- Urganda
- Hawking
- Orlando
- Yolanda of the Towers
- Ermengarde
- Hackelnberg
- An Antique
- Jaafer the Barmecide
- A Pre-Existence
- The King
- Melancholia
- A Woman of the World
- A Guinevere
- Perle des Jardins
- Face to Face
- The Eve of All-Saints
- Mater Dolorosa
- Love as It Was in the Time of Louis XIV
- The Troubadour
- My Romance
- The Epic
- The Minstrel and the Princess
- The Alcalde's Daughter
- Ishmael
- In Mythic Seas
- Loké and Sigyn
- War-Song of Harald the Red
- Yule
- To R. E. Lee Gibson
- Accolon of Gaul
- Peredur, the Son of Evrawc
- Isolt
- The Dream of Sir Galahad
- After the Tournament
- The Dark Tower
- The Blind Harper
- Childe Ronald
- Morgan le Fay
- The Lady of the Hills
- The Demon Lover
- A Princess of Thule
- The Daughter of Merlin
- Tristram to Isolt
- The Knight-Errant
- The Forester
- The Moated Manse
- An Old Tale Retold
- My Lady of Verne
- Geraldine
- At the Corregidor's
- An Episode
- The Slave
- The Rosicrucian
- The Norman Knight
- The Khalif and the Arab
- Arabah
- The Seven Devils
- Thamus
- The Mameluke
- Romaunt of the Roses
- The Portrait
- Behram and Eddetma
- Torquemada
- One Day and Another
- Red Leaves and Roses
- Wild Thorn and Lily
- The Idyll of the Standing-Stone
- Some Summer Days
- An Epic of South-Fork
- A Niello
- Deep in the Forest
- Wreckage
- Siren Sands
- War-Time Silhouettes
- Mosby at Hamilton
- The Feud
- Lynchers
- Dead Man’s Run
- The Raid
- The Brothers
- Epilogue
- Gertrude
- Love
- Heart of My Heart
- Strollers
- The Burden of Desire
- The Tryst
- Gypsying
- Uncertainty
- Lost Love
- Overseas
- At the Stile
- Fern-Seed
- Porphyrogenita
- The Castle of Love
- Consecration
- Romantic Love
- Pastoral Love
- Andalia and the Springtime
- Olivia in the Autumn
- Sylvia of the Woodland
- Witnesses
- A Pupil of Pan
- Lora of the Vales
- Pledges
- Oriental Romance
- The Tollman’s Daughter
- Creole Serenade
- Ideal Divination
- Apocalypse
- Can I Forget?
- My Rose
- Restraint
- In June
- Will O’ the Wisps
- In a Garden
- If I Were Her Lover
- Noëra
- Among the Acres of the Wood
- Words
- The Sirens
- Why?
- Nocturne
- Metamorphosis
- At Twenty-One
- Kinship
- She Is So Much
- Her Eyes
- Messengers
- Apart
- The Blind God
- Cara Mia
- Margery
- Constance
- Lydia
- Helen
- Mignon
- Transubstantiation
- Love and a Day
- Love in a Garden
- Floridian
- When Ships Put Out to Sea
- A Christmas Catch
- A Song for Yule
- Chords
- At Her Grave
- A Confession
- Last Days
- At Twilight
- Day and Night
- Three Birds
- Unrequited
- The Heart’s Desire
- Out of the Depths
- This Is the Face of Her
- Indifference
- Ghost Weather
- The Forest Pool
- At Sunset
- Dead and Gone
- One Night
- The Parting
- The Daughter of the Snow
- The Spirit of the Star
- The Spirit of the Van
- The Caverns of Kaf
- The Salamander
- Lyanna
- The Spirits of Light and Darkness
- The Water Witch
- The Succuba
- Masks
- Carmen
- At Nineveh
- Senorita
- Since Then
- After Death
- The Old Man Dreams
- Memories
- March and May
- In Autumn
- When She Draws Near
- Reed Call for April
- Her Violin
- Meeting in Summer
- Her Vivien Eyes
- Reasons
- Her Vesper Song
- The Glory and the Dream
- Snow and Fire
- In May
- Were I an Artist
- The Ride
- At Parting
- In the Garden of Girls
- Come to the Hills
- Evasion
- Will You Forget?
- Contrasts
- Carissima Mea
- An Autumn Night
- A Daughter of the States
- The Quarrel
- Miriam
- The Summer Sea
- Finale
- Conclusion
- Prologue
- In the Shadow of the Beeches
- A Fallen Beech
- A Coigne of the Forest
- A House in the Hills
- The Wind
- Rain in the Woods
- Heat
- Young September
- The Vintager
- Black Vesper’s Pageants
- A Twilight Moth
- The Grasshopper
- Forest and Field
- Summer
- Indian Summer
- To Sorrow
- Night
- The Haunted House
- Autumn
- Along the Ohio
- The Old Inn
- The Mill-Water
- The Dream
- Spring Twilight
- A Sleet-Storm in May
- The Heart O’ Spring
- A Broken Rainbow on the Skies of May
- Orgie
- The Farmstead
- The Boy Columbus
- North Beach, Florida
- The Storm
- On the Jellico Spur of the Cumberlands
- The Whippoorwill
- In the Wildwood
- A Hollow of the Hills
- Beneath the Beeches
- The Bridle-Path
- The Old Farm
- To Summer
- A Gray Day
- The Mood O’ the Earth
- Nooning
- The Log-Bridge
- Among the Knobs
- The Falls of the Ohio
- Fall Fancies
- Late October
- A November Walk
- The White Evening
- Dreams
- The Brook
- The Old Swing
- To Autumn
- Winter Dreams
- A Flower of the Fields
- On Stony-Run
- Home
- Dusk in the Woods
- Comrades
- The Rock
- Standing-Stone Creek
- Clouds of the Autumn Night
- Then and Now
- By the Trysting-Beech
- After Long Grief and Pain
- The Haunted Woodland
- Comradery
- Occult
- Wood-Words
- The Wind at Night
- Airy Tongues
- Rain and Wind
- Bare Boughs
- A Threnody
- An Old Song
- Baby Mary
- A Sunset Fancy
- The Fen-Fire
- The Wood
- Wood Notes
- Hills of the West
- The Wind of Spring
- The Willow Bottom
- The Red-Bird
- Clearing
- Autumn Sorrow
- A Dark Day of Summer
- Days and Days
- Drouth in Autumn
- In Summer
- In Winter
- On the Farm
- Paths
- A Song in Season
- Before the End
- Hoar-Frost
- Cold
- The Winter Moon
- The Hillside Grave
- The Covered Bridge
- The Creek-Road
- Abandoned
- Omens
- Imperfection
- Arcana
- Fulfillment
- Too Late
- The Witch
- The Somnambulist
- Opium
- Music and Sleep
- Ambition
- Despondency
- Despair
- Quatrains
- A Last Word
- Foreword
- The Cricket
- The Tree Toad
- The Screech-Owl
- The Chipmunk
- The Wild Iris
- The Path by the Creek
- Along the Stream
- Voices
- The Road Home
- Drouth
- The Broken Drouth
- Feud
- Unanointed
- Sunset and Storm
- Beech Blooms
- Worship
- Unheard
- Reincarnation
- On Chenoweth’s Run
- Requiescat
- The Quest
- Before the Rain
- After Rain
- Sunset Clouds
- Riches
- The Age of Gold
- A Song for Labor
- The Love of Loves
- Three Things
- Immortelles
- A Lullaby
- Pestilence
- Musings
- The Message of the Lilies
- Anthem of Dawn
- At the Lane’s End
- Enchantment
- In the Forest
- Can Such Things Be
- Knight-Errant
- The Artist
- Poetry and Philosophy
- Quo Vadis
- To a Critic
- Quatrains
- The Dreamer
- Winter
- Mid-Winter
- Spring
- Transformation
- Response
- The Swashbuckler
- Simulacra
- The Bluebird
- Caverns
- Proem
- A Voice on the Wind
- The Land of Hearts Made Whole
- The Wind of Summer
- The Wind of Winter
- The Leaf-Cricket
- The Owlet
- The Poet
- Summer Noontide
- To the Locust
- July
- Evening on the Farm
- Under the Hunter’s Moon
- In the Lane
- Epiphany
- Life
- Meeting in the Woods
- Rose and Rue
- A Maid Who Died Old
- Communicants
- The Dead Day
- Allurement
- August
- The Bush-Sparrow
- Quiet
- Music
- A Dream Shape
- The Old Barn
- The Wood Witch
- May
- Rain
- Fall
- Sunset in Autumn
- Content
- October
- Discovery
- The Old Spring
- The Forest Spring
- The Hills
- The Song of the Thrush
- Transmutation
- Frost
- Adventurers
- Invocation
- The Death of Love
- Unanswered
- Love, the Interpreter
- Love Despised
- Pearls
- The Woman Speaks
- Of the Slums
- Light and Wind
- The Winds
- Touches
- Earth and Moon
- Dusk
- September
- The End of Summer
- The Passing Glory
- Prototypes
- Superstition
- A. D. Nineteen Hundred
- Uncalled
- Quatrains
- Afterword
- Haunted
- The Elixir of Love
- Gloramone
- The Image in the Glass
- The Legend of the Stone
- The Ruined Mill
- On Floyd's Fork
- The Woman by the Water
- A Street of Ghosts
- Before the Tomb
- Flamencine
- Hildegard
- Romaunt of the Oak
- A Reed Shaken with the Wind
- Woman's Portion
- Ku Klux
- At Dawn
- Præterita
- In Shadow
- In the Owl-Light
- Ashly Mere
- The Headless Horseman
- The Werewolf
- The Sea Spirit
- The Vampire
- Will-O'-The-Wisp
- Revisited
- The Old House
- The Forest of Dreams
- The City of Darkness
- Under Dark Skies
- Rembrandts
- Ghosts
- At Midnight
- That Night
- Gramarye
- The World of Faery
- There Are Fairies
- On Midsummer Night
- The Dance of the Fairies
- The Changeling
- The Elf-Queen
- Song of the Elf
- An Elf Swashbuckler
- On the Eve of St. John
- The Nixies
- The Water-Fairy
- The Morning-Glories
- The Gladioles
- The Tiger-Lily
- The Moth, the Rose, and the Pink
- Glamour
- Faery Morris
- The Little People
- The Sea-King
- The Nereid
- The Mermaid
- Children O' the Moon
- A Motive in Gold and Gray
- Intimations
- Self and Soul
- The Old House by the Mere
- In an Old Garden
- The Haunted Room
- The Mirror
- The Hall of Darkness
- What Dreams May Come
- That Hour
- Epilogue
- proem
- Myth and Romance
- Reverie
- Lethe
- The Naiad
- The Limnad
- Before the Temple
- The Rue-Anemone
- Artemis
- Aphrodite
- Persephone
- Demeter
- Dionysos
- The Paphian Venus
- Gargaphie
- The Faun
- Apollo
- Jotunheim
- Dionysia
- Vine and Sycamore
- Genius Loci
- Dithyrambics
- Hymn to Desire
- Nymph and Faun
- Parting of Leander and Hero
- The Spirit of the Forest Spring
- To a Pansy-Violet
- Pagan
- Beauty and Art
- The Old Water-Mill
- The Rain-Crow
- The Harvest Moon
- Field and Forest Call
- Old Homes
- A Memory
- Dolce Far Niente
- The Purple Valleys
- The Land of Illusion
- The Last Song
- The Dream of Roderick
- Zyps of Zirl
- The Glow-Worm
- A Forest Idyll
- Under the Rose
- Spirit of Dreams
- Processional
- To Harrison S. Morris
- Song and Story
- An Indian Legend
- John Davis, Boucanier
- Voyagers
- Hieroglyphs
- A Legend of the Lily
- The End of the Century
- The Isle of Voices
- The Watcher
- At the Sign of the Skull
- Dum Vivimus
- Failure
- The Cup of Joy
- La Jeunesse et la Mort
- Love and Loss
- The End of All
- A Rose O' the Hills
- The White Vigil
- A Study in Gray
- At Vespers
- Intimations of the Beautiful
- The Moated Grange
- Circe
- Poppy and Mandragora
- Rosemary
- Nightshade
- Lotus
- Moly
- Chryselephantine
- Sibylline
- Eleusinian
- Argonaut
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- With the Tide
- Apportionment
- Esoteric Beauty
- Tempest
- Revelation
- Analogies
- Mnemonics
- Assumption
- Proem to “Undertones
- Unqualified
- Unencouraged Aspiration
- Interpreted
- Second Sight
- Success
- The House of Song
- Flowers
- Dead Sea Fruit
- Requiem
- At Last
- Remembered
- Monochromes
- The World’s Desire
- The Unattainable
- Problems
- The Beautiful
- World’s Attainment
- A Blown Rose
- Nepenthe
- On a Dial
- Unutterable
- Questionings
- Fragments
- Deity
- Disenchantment of Death
- Sleep
- Chatterton
- The Symphony
- A Song for Old Age
- When the Wine-Cup at the Lip
- The Better Lot
- Passion
- The Troglodyte
- The Evanescent Beautiful
- The Higher Brotherhood
- To a Windflower
- Microcosm
- Fortune
- Death
- The Soul
- Conscience
- Youth
- Life’s Seasons
- The Light and Lark
- The Jessamine and the Morning-Glory
- The Toad in the Skull
- The Moonmen
- Phantoms
- The House of Death
- Eidolons
- Identities
- Hallowe’en
- Answered
- Unfulfilled
- Dirge
- Rest
- Clairvoyance
- The Ideal
- To One Reading the Morte D’arthure
- The Cross
- Nightfall
- Pause
- Above the Vales
- Insomnia
- Encouragement
- Which?
- Storm
- Time and Death and Love
- A Phantasy
- Wherefore
- Tristram and Isolt
- Night
- Dawn
- The Ocklawaha
- The Minorcan
- The Spring in Florida
- Long Ago
- Self
- Aspiration
- Peace
- Sin
- The House of Fear
- Satan
- Ossian
- Quatrains
- The Puritans’ Christmas
- The New Year
- The Poet of the Sierras
- America
- The Fathers of Our Fathers
- Mene Tekel Upharsin
- Under the Stars and Stripes
- Our Cause
- Afterword
- Proem
- The Hylas
- Wind and Cloud
- In Solitary Places
- The Forest of Shadows
- Rose Leaves, When the Rose Is Dead
- Music and Moonlight
- The Awakening
- The Vale of Tempe
- The Ballad of Low-Lie-Down
- Vagabonds
- Revealment
- A Yellow Rose
- Whippoorwill Time
- November
- Hallowmas
- Aubade
- Woman’s Love
- At Moonrise
- The Lamp at the Window
- Achievement
- Mysteries
- A Song of the Snow
- The Wood Water
- The Egret Hunter
- The Miracle of the Dawn
- Penetralia
- The Heaven-Born
- The Ballad of the Rose
- Bertrand de Born
- The Troubadour, Pons de Capdeuil
- The Old Home
- The Old Herb-Man
- The Solitary
- Footpaths
- Elfin
- Authorities
- The Willow Water
- Elusion
- The Lost Garden
- Late October Woods
- In the Beech Woods
- The Word in the Wood
- The Night-Wind
- God’s Green Book
- A Wet Day
- After Storm
- Sunset on the River
- Tabernacles
- The Cat-Bird
- Days Come and Go
- The Waning Year
- Gray November
- What of It Then
- Womanhood
- The Rose’s Secret
- The Hushed House
- Unforgotten
- Unsuccess
- The First Quarter
- Zero
- On the Hilltop
- Autumn Storm
- The Jongleur
- Old Sir John
- In Ages Past
- The Miser
- Unto What End
- Epilogue
- Proem
- The Hollow
- Stars
- Ghosts
- Morn
- Going for the Cows
- Song of the Spirits of Spring
- June
- Substratum
- Fairies
- The Dream of Christ
- To Autumn
- An Address to Night
- Evening
- Night
- A Dirge
- Ossian's Poems
- The Punishment of Loke
- Sea Dreams
- Falerina
- La Beale Isoud
- Beltenebros at Miraflores
- The Ideal
- Treachery
- Orlando Mad
- Serenade
- The Sleeper
- A Melody
- The Elf's Song
- The Nixes' Song
- The Fairy Rade
- The Triumph of Music
- Longing
- He Who Loves
- The Monastery Croft
- Unattainable
- Shadows
- Check and Counter-Check
- Semper Idem
- Two Lives
- Forevermore
- Vengeance
- My Suit
- The Water-Maid
- Where and What?
- A Thought
- Lalage
- To ----
- From Unbelief to Belief
- Der Freischutz
- An Anemone
- The Last Scion of the House of Clare
- Leander to Hero
- The Three Urgandas
- A Mabinogi
- Elphin
- Pre-Ordination
- At the Ferry
- Lines
- A Valentine
- How They Brought Aid to Bryan's Station
- Berrying
- Why Should I Pine?
- When Lydia Smiles
- The Rose
- A Ballad of Sweethearts
- Spring
- Lines
- The "Kentucky"
- Home Again
- Meeting and Parting
- The Golden Hour
- The Years Wherein I Never Knew
- Qui Docet, Discit
- A Cameo
- Masked
- A Cavalier's Toast
- From the German of Goethe
- The Man in Gray
- Her Prayer
- Hoodoo
- The Other Woman
- Never
- Sunset Dreams
- Midsummer
- The Forest Way
- One Who Loved Nature
- Garden Gossip
- In the Wood
- The Garden of Dreams
- The Path to Faery
- The Morn That Breaks Its Heart of Gold
- The Black Knight
- In Arcady
- Mendicants
- The Cup of Comus
- The Intruder
- A Ghost of Yesterday
- Lords of the Visionary Eye
- The Creaking Door
- At the End of the Road
- The Troubadour of Trebizend
- Ghosts
- The Lonely Land
- The Wind Witch
- Old Ghosts
- The Name on the Tree
- The Haunted Garden
- The Closed Door
- The Long Room
- In Pearl and Gold
- Moon Fairies
- Haec Olim Meminisse
- The Magic Purse
- The Child at the Gate
- The Lost Dream
- Witchcraft
- Transposed Seasons
- The Old Dreamer
- A Last Word
- The Shadow
- On the Road
- Reconciliation
- Portents
- The Iron Crags
- The Iron Cross
- The Wanderer
- The End of Summer
- The Lust of the World
- Chant Before Battle
- Nearing Christmas
- A Belgian Christmas
- The Festival of the Aisne
- The Cry of Earth
- Child and Father
- The Rising of the Moon
- Where the Battle Passed
- The Iron Age
- The Battle
- On Re-Reading Certain German Poets
- On Opening an Old School Volume of Horace
- Laus Deo
- The New York Skyscraper
- Robert Browning
- Riley
- Don Quixote
- The Woman
- The Song of Songs
- Oglethorpe
- A Poet's Epitaph
- "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin"
- The Watcher on the Tower
- Attainment
- Flight