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Madison Cawein Biography

Poet

Madison Cawein was an American poet known for his profound insights into nature and life. His poetry style combined elements of Romanticism and Symbolism, which had a significant influence on later poets.

World Way Heart Dream Lying Journey Land Slave Honey Bees Sunny

Author:Madison Cawein

“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.”

Soul Enough Light Lying Night Heaven Black Memories Behinds Hell Sea Refuse Bitter My Soul Dawn Sand Consolation Heaven And Hell Enough Love

Author:Madison Cawein

“Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.”

Magic Sea Moon Hills Sunset Sail Enchantment Dip Over The Hill Turquoise Barges

Book:Kentucky Poems

Source: Kentucky Poems

“This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.”

Littles Loses Wind Gains Rain Dear Possession Fear Not Nothing To Lose Fear Nothing

Book:The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy

Source: The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy

“At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.”

White Wind Spun Daybreak

Author:Madison Cawein

“Some shall reap that never sow And some shall toil and not attain.”

Toil Reap

Author:Madison Cawein

“What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that's born for an hour?”

Born Hours Magic Solve

Book:Poems of meditation and of forest and field

Source: Poems of meditation and of forest and field

“I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.”

Feels Nature Darkness Tree Flow Roots Impact Bees Leafs Sap Flutes

Author:Madison Cawein

“When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock, And the brown bee drones in the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its close, It's, Oh!, For the gate, and the locust lane; And dusk, and dew, and home again!”

Home Four Summer Red Rose West Clock Brown Gates Bees Dew Lanes Dusk Drones Hornets

Author:Madison Cawein

“Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.”

Heart Soul Home Lying Forever Tears Laughter My Soul Gladness

Book:Myth and Romance

Source: Myth and Romance

“There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.”

Heart Brain Silence Ghost Heart And Brain

Author:Madison Cawein

“And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.”

Heart Dream Time Hours Records Flower My Heart

Author:Madison Cawein

“Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem To end it all and let who will survive; To find at last all beauty is but dust; That love and sorrow are the very same; That joy is only suffering's sweeter name; And sense is but the synonym of lust. Far better, yea, to me it seems to die; To set glad lips against the lips of Death-- The only thing God gives that comforteth, The only thing we do not find a lie.”

Thinking Giving Ends Dream Seems Lasts Death Joy Lying Suffering Dies Names Struggle Sorrow Gains Empty Strive Lips Glad Lust Dust Synonym

Author:Madison Cawein

“When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes, I shall not die, I shall not utterly die, For beauty born of beauty-- that remains.”

Home Lying Dies House Born Common Remains Veins Oblivion Serfs

Book:Myth and Romance

Source: Myth and Romance

About the Author

Born: March 23, 1865
Died: December 8, 1914
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 14

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Myth and RomanceRelated source material

Kentucky PoemsRelated source material

Poems of meditation and of forest and fieldRelated source material

The Cup of Comus: Fact and FancyRelated source material

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