Madison Julius Cawein
Who is Madison Julius Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein (March 23, 1865 – December 8, 1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky.
Biography
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 23, 1865, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Thus as a child, Cawein became acquainted with and developed a love for local nature.
After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write.
His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. ...
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Madison Julius Cawein Poems
- A Motive In Gold And Gray
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To-night he sees their star burn, dewy-bright,
Deep in the pansy, eve hath made for it,
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- Foreword. To Idyllic Monologues
And one, perchance, will read and sigh:
"What aimless songs! Why will he sing
Of nature that drags out her woe
Through wind and rain, and sun, and snow,
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- Pictured
This is the face of her
I've dreamed of long;
Here in my heart's despair,
This is the face of her
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- Before The End
How does the Autumn in her mind conclude
The tragic masque her frosty pencil writes,
Broad on the pages of the days and nights,
In burning lines of orchard, wold, and wood?
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- Blooms Of The Berry - Proem
Wine-warm winds that sigh and sing,
Led me, wrapped in many moods,
Thro' the green sonorous woods
Of belated Spring;
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Comments about Madison Julius Cawein
- Factodark: to lose or gain.
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- Artcalvil1: she held her mouth up redly wan,
and burning cold,—i bent and kissed
such rosy snow as some wild dawn
makes of a mist.
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- Jonanatinto: singing a song of manly deeds.
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