The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy
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Cawein Madison Julius. The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy
THRENODY IN MAY
FOREWORD
BROKEN MUSIC
MADISON CAWEIN
THE CUP OF COMUS
THE INTRUDER
A GHOST OF YESTERDAY
LORDS OF THE VISIONARY EYE
THE CREAKING DOOR
AT THE END OF THE ROAD
THE TROUBADOUR OF TREBIZEND
GHOSTS
THE LONELY LAND
THE WIND WITCH
OLD GHOSTS
THE NAME ON THE TREE
THE HAUNTED GARDEN
THE CLOSED DOOR
THE LONG ROOM
IN PEARL AND GOLD
MOON FAIRIES
HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE
THE MAGIC PURSE
THE CHILD AT THE GATE
THE LOST DREAM
WITCHCRAFT
TRANSPOSED SEASONS
THE OLD DREAMER
A LAST WORD
THE SHADOW
ON THE ROAD
RECONCILIATION
PORTENTS
THE IRON CRAGS
THE IRON CROSS
THE WANDERER
THE END OF SUMMER
THE LUST OF THE WORLD
CHANT BEFORE BATTLE
NEARING CHRISTMAS
A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS
THE FESTIVAL OF THE AISNE
THE CRY OF EARTH
CHILD AND FATHER
THE RISING OF THE MOON
WHERE THE BATTLE PASSED
THE IRON AGE
THE BATTLE
ON RE-READING CERTAIN GERMAN POETS
ON OPENING AN OLD SCHOOL VOLUME OF HORACE
LAUS DEO
THE NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER
ROBERT BROWNING
RILEY
DON QUIXOTE
THE WOMAN
THE SONG OF SONGS
OGLETHORPE
A POET'S EPITAPH
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It is with a sense of sadness and regret that this book, written by one who universally has endeared himself to lovers of nature through his revelation of her mysteries, must be prefaced as containing the last songs of this exquisite singer of the South.
When the final word is spoken it is fitting that it be by one of authority. William Dean Howells, in the pages of The North American Review, offers this tribute:
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"Mr. Cawein's landscape is not the sea, nor the desert, nor the mountain, but the lovely inland levels of his Kentucky. His work is almost wholly objective. A dash more of human import mixed into the beauty and melody of his poetry would rank him with Lowell and the other great lyrists of our elder choir."
Some of the new poems portray a high moral passion, potent with the belief of life beyond, where his delicacy of vision penetrates the shadow and seems to have sighted the shore that has given his soul greeting "somewhere yonder in a world uncharted."
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