THE POEMS OF
MADISON CAWEIN

VOLUME II

NEW WORLD IDYLLS AND
POEMS OF LOVE

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


WITH ENDURING FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND LOYALTY

TO

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW WORLD IDYLLS

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ONE DAY AND ANOTHER

A Lyrical Eclogue

PART I

LATE SPRING

I

Outside her garden. He waits musing:

II

Dusk deepens. A whippoorwill calls.

III

He enters the garden, speaking dreamily:

IV

She approaches, laughing. She speaks:

V

She stands smiling at him, shyly, then speaks:

VI

Moths flutter around them. She speaks:

VII

Taking her hand he says:

VIII

Then, regarding him seriously, she continues:

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IX

Leaving the garden for the lane. He, with lightness of heart:

She, responding to his mood:

He

She

X

He, suddenly and very earnestly:

XI

She, musingly:

XII

He, with conviction:

XIII

They reënter the garden. She speaks somewhat pensively:

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XIV

He, observing the various dowers around them:

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XV

She, seriously:

XVI

He, looking smilingly into her eyes, after a pause, lightly:

XVII

She, pensively, standing among the flowers:

XVIII

He, at parting, as they proceed down the garden:

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PART II

EARLY SUMMER

I

She delays, meditating. A rainy afternoon.

II

They meet. He speaks:

She speaks:

III

They meet again under the greenwood tree. He speaks:

IV

Entering the skiff, she speaks:

V

He speaks, rowing:

She speaks:

He speaks:

VI

She sings:

VII

He speaks, letting the boat drift:

VIII

Landing, he sings:

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She sings:

He speaks:

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IX

Homeward through flowers; she speaks:

X

He speaks, musingly:

XI

She speaks, dreamily:

XII

He laughs, wishing to dispel her seriousness:

XIII

She interrupts him, speaking impetuously:

XIV

Nearing her home, he speaks:

XV

At the gate. She speaks:

XVI

He, at parting:

XVII

She tarries at the gate a moment, watching him disappear down the lane. He sings, and the sound of his singing grows fainter and fainter and at last dies away in the distance:

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PART III

LATE SUMMER

I

Musing, he strolls among the quiet lanes by farm and field:

II

He is reminded of another day with her:

III

He enters the woods. He sits down despondently:

IV

He proceeds in the direction of a stream:

V

He seats himself on a rock and gazes steadily into the stream:

VI

Taking a letter from his pocket, he hurries away:

VII

After the final meeting; the day following:

VIII

He walks aimlessly on:

IX

He compares the present day with a past one:

X

He pauses before a deserted house by the wayside:

XI

He proceeds on his way:

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XII

Among the twilight fields:

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PART IV

LATE AUTUMN

I

Sick and sad, propped with pillows, she sits at her window:

II

She looks down upon the dying garden:

III

She muses upon the past:

IV

She takes up a book and reads:

V

She lays down the book, and sits musing:

VI

She writes to her lover to come to her:

VII

The wind rises; the trees are agitated:

VIII

She sits musing in the gathering twilight:

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IX

He enters. Taking her in his arms he speaks:

X

She smiles on him through her tears; holding his hand she speaks:

PART V

WINTER

I

In the silence of his room. After many days:

II

The bitterness of his bereavement speaks in him:

III

Her dead face seems to rise up before him:

IV

He sinks into deep thought:

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V

He arouses from his abstraction, buries his face in his hands and thinks:

VI

He looks from his window toward the sombre west:

VII

He turns from the window, takes up a book, and reads:

VIII

The storm is heard sounding wildly outside with wind and hail:

{114}

IX

He sits by the slowly dying fire. The storm is heard with increased violence:

{116}

RED LEAVES AND ROSES

I

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II

III

IV

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V

VI

WILD THORN AND LILY

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII