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The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 3 (of 5)

By Madison Cawein

2020-03-13 23:12:52

Brief Extract: When on the leaves the rain persists, And every gust brings showers down; When copse and woodland smoke with mists, I take the old road out of town Into the hills through which it twists. I find the vale where catnip grows, Where ... Read more
Brief Extract: When on the leaves the rain persists, And every gust brings showers down; When copse and woodland smoke with mists, I take the old road out of town Into the hills through which it twists. I find the vale where catnip grows, Where boneset blooms, with moisture bowed; The vale through which the red creek flows, Turbid with hill-washed clay, and loud As some wild horn a huntsman blows. Around the root the beetle glides, A burnished beryl; and the ant, Large, agate-red, a garnet, slides Beneath the rock; and every plant Is roof for some frail thing that hides. Less

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File size909.619 KB
Print pages514
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0483047587
Madison Julius Cawein (March 23, 1865 – December 8, 1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 23, 1865, the fifth child of William a...

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