Madison Julius Cawein Poems

I

When dusk falls cool as a rained-on rose,
And a tawny tower the twilight shows,
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Above her, pearl and rose the heavens lay:
Around her, flowers flattered earth with gold,
Or down the path in insolence held sway-
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In some quaint Nurnberg
maler-atelier
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I

First I asked the honeybee,
Busy in the balmy bowers;
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I

Can freckled August,-drowsing warm and blond
Beside a wheat-shock in the white-topped mead,
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From 'Wild Thorn and Lily'

Among the white haw-blossoms, where the creek
Droned under drifts of dogwood and of haw,
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I

The tripod flared with a purple spark,
And the mist hung emerald in the dark:
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Ah me! I shall not waken soon
From dreams of such divinity!
A spirit singing 'neath the moon
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A SHADOW glided down the way
Where sunset groped among the trees,
And all the woodland bower, asway
With trouble of the evening breeze.
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He waited till within her tower
Her taper signalled him the hour.

He was a prince both fair and brave.-
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