The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 1 (of 5) / Lyrics and old world idylls

VOLUME I LYRICS AND OLD WORLD IDYLLS

THE POEMS OF MADISON CAWEIN
Volume I
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EDMUND GOSSE
Illustrated WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS BY ERIC PAPE
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1898 and 1907, by Madison Cawein
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
TO WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS WHO WAS THE FIRST TO RECOGNIZE AND ENCOURAGE MY ENDEAVORS, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED WITH AFFECTION, ADMIRATION AND ESTEEM
This first collected edition of my poems contains all the verses I care to retain except the translations from the German, published in 1895 under the title of The White Snake , and some of the poems in Nature-Notes and Impressions , published in 1906.
Several of the poems which I probably would have omitted I have retained at the solicitation of friends, who have based their argument for their retention upon the generally admitted fact that a poet seldom knows his best work.