Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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Myth And Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDADDDDAD DDDDDDDEDDDE DEDEEDEFEEDF DDDDDDDDEEDD

When I go forth to greet the glad faced SpringA
Just at the time of opening apple budsB
When brooks are laughing winds are whisperingA
On babbling hillsides or in warbling woodsC
There is an unseen presence that eludesD
Perhaps a Dryad in whose tresses clingA
The loamy odors of old solitudesD
Who from her beechen doorway calls and leadsD
My soul to follow now with dimpling wordsD
Of leaves and now with syllables of birdsD
While here and there is it her limbs that swingA
Or restless sunlight on the moss and weedsD
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Or haply 't is a Naiad now who slipsD
Like some white lily from her fountain's glassD
While from her dripping hair and breasts and hipsD
The moisture rains cool music on the grassD
Her have I heard and followed yet alasD
Have seen no more than the wet ray that dipsD
The shivered waters wrinkling where I passD
But in the liquid light where she doth hideE
I have beheld the azure of her gazeD
Smiling and where the orbing ripple playsD
Among her minnows I have heard her lipsD
Bubbling make merry by the watersideE
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Or now it is an Oread whose eyesD
Are constellated dusk who stands confessedE
As naked as a flow'r her heart's surpriseD
Like morning's rose mantling her brow and breastE
She shrinking from my presence all distressedE
Stands for a startled moment ere she fliesD
Her deep hair blowing up the mountain crestE
Wild as a mist that trails along the dawnF
And is't her footfalls lure me or the soundE
Of airs that stir the crisp leaf on the groundE
And is't her body glimmers on yon riseD
Or dog wood blossoms snowing on the lawnF
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Now't is a Satyr piping serenadesD
On a slim reed Now Pan and Faun advanceD
Beneath green hollowed roofs of forest gladesD
Their feet gone mad with music now perchanceD
Sylvanus sleeping on whose leafy tranceD
The Nymphs stand gazing in dim ambuscadesD
Of sun embodied perfume Myth RomanceD
Where'er I turn reach out bewildering armsD
Compelling me to follow Day and nightE
I hear their voices and behold the lightE
Of their divinity that still evadesD
And still allures me in a thousand formsD

Madison Julius Cawein



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