Illustrated
WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS
BY ERIC PAPE
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1899, 1901, 1902,
1905 and 1907, by Madison Cawein
Copyright 1896, by Copeland and Day; 1898, by
R. H. Russell
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
TO MY WIFE
WHO HAS BEEN THE INSPIRATION OF MANY OF
MY POEMS
CONTENTS
| POEMS OF MEDITATION |
|---|
| [Above the Vales] | [220] |
| [Afterword] | [283] |
| [America] | [271] |
| [Analogies] | [101] |
| [Answered] | [201] |
| [Apportionment] | [95] |
| [Argonaut] | [88] |
| [Aspiration] | [249] |
| [Assumption] | [105] |
| [At Last] | [119] |
| [Beautiful, The] | [131] |
| [Better Lot, The] | [162] |
| [Blown Rose, A] | [135] |
| [Chatterton] | [151] |
| [Chryselephantine] | [82] |
| [Circe] | [67] |
| [Clairvoyance] | [210] |
| [Conscience] | [174] |
| [Cross, The] | [215] |
| [Dawn] | [236] |
| [Dead Sea Fruit] | [116] |
| [Death] | [172] |
| [Deity] | [142] |
| [Dirge] | [206] |
| [Disenchantment of Death] | [144] |
| [Eidolons] | [195] |
| [Eleusinian] | [86] |
| [Encouragement] | [223] |
| [Esoteric Beauty] | [97] |
| [Evanescent Beautiful, The] | [166] |
| [“Fathers of Our Fathers, The”] | [273] |
| [Flowers] | [115] |
| [Fortune] | [171] |
| [Fragments] | [140] |
| [Hallowe’en] | [199] |
| [Higher Brotherhood, The] | [167] |
| [House of Death, The] | [192] |
| [House of Fear, The] | [254] |
| [House of Song, The] | [114] |
| [Ideal, The] | [211] |
| [Identities] | [197] |
| [Insomnia] | [222] |
| [Interpreted] | [110] |
| [Intimations of the Beautiful] | [1] |
| [Jessamine and the Morning-Glory, The] | [181] |
| [Life’s Seasons] | [177] |
| [Light and Lark, The] | [179] |
| [Long Ago] | [246] |
| [Lotus] | [78] |
| [Mene Tekel Upharsin] | [276] |
| [Microcosm] | [170] |
| [Minorcan, The] | [241] |
| [Mnemonics] | [103] |
| [Moated Grange, The] | [60] |
| [Moly] | [80] |
| [Monochromes] | [123] |
| [Moonmen, The] | [186] |
| [Nepenthe] | [136] |
| [New Year, The] | [268] |
| [Night] | [232] |
| [Nightfall] | [217] |
| [Nightshade] | [76] |
| [Ocklawaha, The] | [238] |
| [On a Dial] | [137] |
| [Ossian] | [256] |
| [Our Cause] | [281] |
| [Passion] | [163] |
| [Pause] | [219] |
| [Peace] | [251] |
| [Phantasy, A] | [228] |
| [Phantoms] | [190] |
| [Poet of the Sierras, The] | [270] |
| [Poppy and Mandragora] | [70] |
| [Problems] | [130] |
| [Proem to “Undertones”] | [107] |
| [Puritans’ Christmas, The] | [265] |
| [Quatrains] | [257] |
| [Questionings] | [139] |
| [Remembered] | [121] |
| [Requiem] | [117] |
| [Rest] | [208] |
| [Revelation] | [100] |
| [Rosemary] | [74] |
| [Satan] | [255] |
| [Second Sight] | [111] |
| [Self] | [248] |
| [Sibylline] | [84] |
| [Sic Vos Non Vobis] | [90] |
| [Sin] | [253] |
| [Sleep] | [148] |
| [Song for Old Age, A] | [160] |
| [Soul, The] | [173] |
| [Spring in Florida, The] | [243] |
| [Storm] | [226] |
| [Success] | [113] |
| [Symphony, The] | [153] |
| [Tempest] | [99] |
| [Time and Death and Love] | [227] |
| [To a Windflower] | [168] |
| [To One Reading the Morte D’Arthure] | [213] |
| [Toad in the Skull, The] | [184] |
| [Tristram and Isolt] | [231] |
| [Troglodyte, The] | [164] |
| [Unattainable, The] | [127] |
| [Under the Stars and Stripes] | [279] |
| [Unencouraged Aspiration] | [109] |
| [Unfulfilled] | [203] |
| [Unqualified] | [108] |
| [Unutterable] | [138] |
| [“When the Wine-cup at the Lip”] | [161] |
| [Wherefore] | [230] |
| [Which?] | [224] |
| [With the Tide] | [92] |
| [World’s Attainment] | [134] |
| [World’s Desire, The] | [126] |
| [Youth] | [175] |
| [POEMS OF FOREST AND FIELD] |
|---|
| [Achievement] | [381] |
| [At Moonrise] | [375] |
| [Aubade] | [371] |
| [Awakening, The] | [346] |
| [Ballad of Low-Lie-Down, The] | [355] |
| [Ballad of the Rose, The] | [398] |
| [Bertrand De Born] | [401] |
| [Egret Hunter, The] | [390] |
| [Forest of Shadows, The] | [336] |
| [Hollowmas] | [369] |
| [Heaven-Born, The] | [396] |
| [Hylas, The] | [289] |
| [In Solitary Places] | [309] |
| [Lamp at the Window, The] | [378] |
| [Man Hunt, The] | [333] |
| [Miracle of the Dawn, The] | [392] |
| [Music and Moonlight] | [343] |
| [Mysteries] | [383] |
| [November] | [365] |
| [Old Herb-Man, The] | [411] |
| [Old Home, The] | [409] |
| [Penetralia] | [394] |
| [Proem] | [287] |
| [Revealment] | [359] |
| [“Rose Leaves, When the Rose is Dead”] | [340] |
| [Solitary, The] | [413] |
| [Song of the Snow, A] | [385] |
| [Troubadour, Pons De Capdeuil, The] | [405] |
| [Vagabonds] | [357] |
| [Vale of Tempe, The] | [350] |
| [Whippoorwill Time] | [362] |
| [Wind and Cloud] | [296] |
| [Woman’s Love] | [373] |
| [Wood Water, The] | [388] |
| [Yellow Rose, A] | [360] |
| [FOOTPATHS] |
|---|
| [After Storm] | [445] |
| [Authorities] | [421] |
| [Autumn Storm] | [476] |
| [Cat-Bird, The] | [450] |
| [Days Come and Go] | [452] |
| [Elfin] | [419] |
| [Elusion] | [426] |
| [Epilogue] | [482] |
| [First Quarter, The] | [471] |
| [God’s Green Book] | [441] |
| [Gray November] | [456] |
| [Hushed House, The] | [465] |
| [In Ages Past] | [479] |
| [In the Beech Woods] | [434] |
| [Jongleur, The] | [477] |
| [Late October Woods] | [432] |
| [Lost Garden, The] | [429] |
| [Miser, The] | [480] |
| [Night-Wind, The] | [438] |
| [Old Sir John] | [478] |
| [On the Hilltop] | [475] |
| [The Rose’s Secret] | [463] |
| [Sunset on the River] | [446] |
| [Tabernacles] | [448] |
| [Unforgotten] | [467] |
| [Unsuccess] | [468] |
| [Unto What End] | [481] |
| [Waning Year, The] | [454] |
| [Wet Day, A] | [443] |
| [What of it Then] | [458] |
| [Willow Water, The] | [423] |
| [Womanhood] | [461] |
| [Word in the Wood, The] | [436] |
| [Zero] | [474] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
TO GERTRUDE
You are weary of reading:
I am weary of song:
The one is misleading;
The other, o’er long:—
All Art’s overlong.
Ah, would it were ours
To leave them, and then,
’Mid the fields and the flowers,
Be children again,
Glad children again.