VOLUME II

NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND POEMS OF LOVE

Ah, girlhood, through the rosy haze Come like a moonbeam slipping. Page 3 _One Day and Another_

THE POEMS OF MADISON CAWEIN

_Volume II_

NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND POEMS OF LOVE

_Illustrated_ WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS BY ERIC PAPE

INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1905 and 1907, BY MADISON CAWEIN

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY COPELAND AND DAY; 1898, BY R. H RUSSELL; 1901, BY RICHARD G. BADGER AND COMPANY

PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.

WITH ENDURING FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND LOYALTY TO JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

CONTENTS

NEW WORLD IDYLLS

PAGE

BROTHERS, THE 246

DEAD MAN’S RUN 241

DEEP IN THE FOREST 196

EPIC OF SOUTH-FORK, AN 180

FEUD, THE 237

IDYLL OF THE STANDING-STONE, THE 161

LYNCHERS 239

MOSBY AT HAMILTON 235

NIELLO, A 192

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER 1

RAID, THE 244

RED LEAVES AND ROSES 116

SIREN SANDS 217

SOME SUMMER DAYS 171

WAR-TIME SILHOUETTES 224

WILD THORN AND LILY 122

WRECKAGE 209

POEMS OF LOVE

AFTER DEATH 482

AMONG THE ACRES OF THE WOOD 343

AN AUTUMN NIGHT 519

ANDALIA AND THE SPRINGTIME 304

APART 356

APOCALYPSE 327

AT HER GRAVE 386

AT NINEVEH 476

AT PARTING 509

AT SUNSET 405

AT THE STILE 288

AT TWENTY-ONE 351

AT TWILIGHT 391

BLIND GOD, THE 357

BURDEN OF DESIRE, THE 274

CAN I FORGET? 328

CARA MIA 358

CARISSIMA MEA 517

CARMEN 473

CASTLE OF LOVE, THE 295

CAVERNS OF KAF, THE 431

CHORDS 382

CHRISTMAS CATCH, A 378

“COME TO THE HILLS” 512

CONCLUSION 529

CONFESSION, A 388

CONSECRATION 298

CONSTANCE 362

CONTRASTS 516

CREOLE SERENADE 321

DAUGHTER OF THE SNOW, THE 414

DAUGHTER OF THE STATES, A 521

DAY AND NIGHT 392

DEAD AND GONE 406

EPILOGUE 261

EVASION 513

FERN-SEED 290

FINALE 527

FLORIDIAN 374

FOREST POOL, THE 403

GERTRUDE 267

GLORY AND THE DREAM, THE 501

GHOST WEATHER 402

GYPSYING 278

HEART’S DESIRE, THE 395

HEART OF MY HEART 269

HELEN 365

HER EYES 354

HER VESPER SONG 499

HER VIOLIN 492

HER VIVIEN EYES 496

IDEAL DIVINATION 324

“IF I WERE HER LOVER” 337

IN A GARDEN 335

IN AUTUMN 488

INDIFFERENCE 401

IN MAY 503

IN JUNE 331

IN THE GARDEN OF GIRLS 511

KINSHIP 352

LAST DAYS 390

LORA OF THE VALES 313

LOST LOVE 283

LOVE 268

LOVE AND A DAY 369

LOVE IN A GARDEN 372

LYANNA 447

LYDIA 364

MARCH AND MAY 486

MARGERY 360

MASKS 469

MEETING IN SUMMER 494

MEMORIES 485

MESSENGERS 355

METAMORPHOSIS 350

MIGNON 367

MIRIAM 524

MY ROSE 329

NOCTURNE 348

NOËRA 340

OLD MAN DREAMS, THE 483

OLIVIA IN THE AUTUMN 306

ONE NIGHT 407

ORIENTAL ROMANCE 317

OUT OF THE DEPTHS 397

OVERSEAS 285

PASTORAL LOVE 302

PLEDGES 315

PORPHYROGENITA 292

PUPIL OF PAN, A 312

QUARREL, THE 522

REASONS 497

REED CALL FOR APRIL 490

RESTRAINT 330

ROMANTIC LOVE 300

SALAMANDER, THE 438

SENORITA 479

“SHE IS SO MUCH” 353

SINCE THEN 481

SIRENS, THE 346

SNOW AND FIRE 502

SONG FOR YULE, A 380

SPIRITS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS, THE 454

SPIRIT OF THE STAR, THE 417

SPIRIT OF THE VAN, THE 423

STROLLERS 271

SUCCUBA, THE 464

SUMMER SEA, THE 525

SYLVIA OF THE WOODLAND 308

THE PARTING 412

THE RIDE 507

THE TRYST 276

“THIS IS THE FACE OF HER” 399

THREE BIRDS 393

TOLLMAN’S DAUGHTER, THE 319

TRANSUBSTANTIATION 368

UNCERTAINTY 280

UNREQUITED 394

WATER WITCH, THE 459

“WERE I AN ARTIST” 505

“WHEN SHE DRAWS NEAR” 489

WHEN SHIPS PUT OUT TO SEA 376

WHY? 347

WILL O’ THE WISPS 333

WILL YOU FORGET? 515

WITNESSES 310

WORDS 345

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

AH, GIRLHOOD, THROUGH THE ROSY HAZE COME LIKE A MOONBEAM SLIPPING. (See page 3) _Frontispiece_

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WHERE THE WOODCOCK CALL. (See page 161) 160

SOMETHING DREW ME, UNRETURNING, FILLED ME WITH A FINER FLAME. (See page 419) 350

I LOOK INTO THY HEART AND THEN I KNOW THE WONDROUS POETRY OF THE LONG-AGO. (See page 497) 490

NEW WORLD IDYLLS

_O lyrist of the lowly and the true, The song I sought for you Still bides unsung. What hope for me to find, Lost in the dædal mind, The living utterance with lovely tongue, To sing,--as once he sung, Rare Ariosto, of Knight-Errantry,-- How you in Poesy, Song’s Paladin, Knight of the Dream and Day, The shield of magic sway! Of that Atlantes’ power, sweet and terse, The skyey-builded verse! The shield that dazzles, brilliant with surprise, Our unanointed eyes.-- Oh, could I write as it were worthy you, Each word, a spark of dew,-- As once Ferdusi wrote in Persia,-- Would string each rosy spray Of each unfolding flower of my song; And Iran’s bulbul tongue Would sob its heart out o’er the fountain’s slab In gardens of Afrasiab._

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER

_A Lyrical Eclogue_