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Nature-Notes and Impressions, in Prose and Verse
Nature-Notes and Impressions in Prose and Verse Author:Madison Julius Cawein General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: E. P. Dutton and company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: GRAY SKIES It is not well For me to dwell On what upon that day befell, On that dark day of fall befell; When through the landscape, bowed and bent, With Love and Death I slowly went, And wild rain swept the firmament. Ah, Love that sighed 1 Ah, Joy that died! And Heart that humbled all its pride; In vain that humbled all its pride! The roses ruin and rot away Upon your grave where grasses sway, And all is dim, and all is gray. SUNSET DREAMS The moth and beetle wing about The garden ways of other days; Above the hills, a fiery shout Of gold, the day dies slowly out, Like some wild blast a huntsman blows: And o'er the hills my Fancy goes, Following the sunset's golden call Unto a vine-hung garden wall, Where she awaits me in the gloom, Between the lily and the rose, With arms and lips of warm perfume, The Dream of Love my Fancy knows. The glow-worm and the firefly glow Among the ways of bygone days; A golden shaft shot from a bow Of silver, star and moon swing low Above the hills where twilight lies: And o'er the hills my Longing flies, Following the star's far, arrowed gold, Unto a gate where, as of old, She waits amid the rose and rue, With star-bright hair and night-dark eyes, The Dream, to whom my heart is true, My Dream of Love that never dies. MENDICANTS Bleak, in dark rags of clouds, the day begins, That passed so splendidly but yesterday Wrapped in magnificence of gold and gray. And poppy and rose. Now, burdened as with sins, Their wildness clad in fogs, like coats of skins, Tattered ...« less