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Weeds by the Wall - Madison Julius Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein
Weeds by the Wall: Verses
EAN 8596547237853
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD.
Weeds by the Wall.
A WILD IRIS.
THE PATH BY THE CREEK.
THE ROAD HOME.
A TWILIGHT MOTH.
ALONG THE STREAM.
THE CRICKET.
VOICES.
THE GRASSHOPPER.
THE TREE TOAD.
THE SCREECH-OWL.
THE CHIPMUNK.
LOVE AND A DAY.
DROUTH.
BEFORE THE RAIN.
THE BROKEN DROUTH.
FEUD.
UNANOINTED.
THE END OF ALL.
SUNSET AND STORM.
BEECH BLOOMS.
WORSHIP.
UNHEARD.
REINCARNATION.
ON CHENOWETH'S RUN.
HOME AGAIN.
A STREET OF GHOSTS.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEECHES.
REQUIESCAT.
THE QUEST.
MEETING AND PARTING.
LOVE IN A GARDEN.
FLORIDIAN.
THE GOLDEN HOUR.
REED CALL FOR APRIL.
THE YEARS WHEREIN I NEVER KNEW.
MIGNON.
QUI DOCET, DISCIT.
TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
HELEN.
A CAMEO.
LA JEUNESSE ET LA MORT.
LOVE AND LOSS.
SUNSET CLOUDS.
MASKED.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS.
RICHES.
BEAUTY AND ART.
THE AGE OF GOLD.
THE LOVE OF LOVES.
THREE THINGS.
IMMORTELLES.
A LULLABY.
DUM VIVIMUS.
FAILURE.
THE CUP OF JOY.
PESTILENCE.
MUSINGS.
AT THE SIGN OF THE SKULL.
A CAVALIER'S TOAST.
SLEEP IS A SPIRIT.
KENNST DU DAS LAND.
AT MIDNIGHT.
THE MAN IN GRAY.
HALLOWE'EN.
THE IMAGE IN THE GLASS.
HER PRAYER.
THE MESSAGE OF THE LILIES.
A LEGEND OF THE LILY.
THE END OF THE CENTURY.
THE ISLE OF VOICES.
A. D. NINETEEN HUNDRED.
CAVERNS.
OF THE SLUMS.
THE WINDS.
PROTOTYPES.
TOUCHES.
THE WOMAN SPEAKS.
LOVE, THE INTERPRETER.
UNANSWERED.
EARTH AND MOON.
PEARLS.
IN THE FOREST.
ENCHANTMENT.
DUSK.
THE BLUE BIRD.
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?
THE PASSING GLORY.
SEPTEMBER.
HOODOO.
THE OTHER WOMAN.
A SONG FOR LABOR.
AFTERWORD.
FOREWORD.
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In the first rare spring of song,
In my heart's young hours,
In my youth 't was thus I sang,
Choosing 'mid the flowers:—
"Fair the Dandelion is,
But for me too lowly;
And the winsome Violet
Is, forsooth, too holy.
'But the Touchmenot?' Go to!
What! a face that's speckled
Like a common milking-maid's,
Whom the sun hath freckled.
Then the Wild-Rose is a flirt;
And the trillium Lily,
In her spotless gown, 's a prude,
Sanctified and silly.
By her cap the Columbine,
To my mind, 's too merry;
Gossips, I would sooner wed
Some plebeian Berry.
And the shy Anemone—
Well, her face shows sorrow;
Pale, goodsooth! alive to-day,
Dead and gone to-morrow.
Then that bold-eyed, buxom wench,
Big and blond and lazy,—
She's been chosen overmuch!—
Sirs, I mean the Daisy.
Pleasant persons are they all,
And their virtues many;
Faith I know but good of each,
And naught ill of any.
But I choose a May-apple;
She shall be my Lady;
Blooming, hidden and refined,
Sweet in places shady."
In my youth 'twas thus I sang,
In my heart's young hours,
In the first rare spring of song,
Choosing 'mid the flowers.
So I hesitated when
Time alone was reckoned
By the hours that Fancy smiled,
Love and Beauty beckoned.
Hard it was for me to choose
From the flowers that flattered;
And the blossom that I chose
Soon lay dead and scattered.
Hard I found it then, ah, me!
Hard I found the choosing;
Harder, harder since I've found,
Ah, too hard the losing.
Haply had I chosen then
From the weeds that tangle
Wayside, woodland and the wall
Of my garden's angle,
I had chosen better, yea,
For these later hours—
Longer last the weeds, and oft
Sweeter are than flowers.
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A WILD IRIS.
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That day we wandered 'mid the hills,—so lone
Clouds are not lonelier,—the forest lay
In emerald darkness 'round us. Many a stone
And gnarly root, gray-mossed, made wild our way;
And many a bird the glimmering light along
Showered the golden bubbles of its song.
Then in the valley, where the brook went by,
Silvering the ledges that it rippled from,—
An isolated slip of fallen sky,
Epitomizing heaven in its sum,—
An iris bloomed—blue, as if, flower-disguised,
The gaze of Spring had there materialized.
I have forgotten many things since then—
Much beauty and much happiness and grief;
And toiled and dreamed among my fellow-men,
Rejoicing in the knowledge life is brief.
'T is winter now,
so says each barren bough;
And face and hair proclaim 't is winter now.
I would forget the gladness of that spring!
I would forget that day when she and I,
Between the bird-song and the blossoming,
Went hand in hand beneath the soft spring sky!—
Much is forgotten, yea—and yet, and yet,
The things we would we never can forget.—
Nor I how May then minted treasuries
Of crowfoot gold; and molded out of light
The sorrel's cups, whose elfin chalices
Of limpid spar were streaked with rosy white.
Nor all the stars of twinkling spiderwort,
And mandrake moons with which her brows were girt.
But most of all, yea, it were well for me,
Me and my heart, that I forget that flower,
The wild blue iris, azure fleur-de-lis,
That she and I together found that hour.
Its recollection can but emphasize
The pain of loss, remindful of her eyes.
THE PATH BY THE CREEK.
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There is a path that leads
Through purple iron-weeds,
By button-bush and mallow
Along a creek;
A path that wildflowers hallow,
That wild birds seek;
Roofed thick with eglantine
And grape and