GARDEN OF DREAMS
MADISON CAWEIN



THE GARDEN OF DREAMS


MADISON CAWEIN

_Author of "Intimations of the Beautiful," "Undertones,"
and several other books of verse_


LOUISVILLE
JOHN P MORTON & COMPANY
MDCCCXCVI


COPYRIGHT, 1896,
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY.


TO
MY BROTHERS.




_Not while I live may I forget
That garden which my spirit trod!
Where dreams were flowers, wild and wet,
And beautiful as God._

_Not while I breathe, awake adream,
Shall live again for me those hours,
When, in its mystery and gleam,
I met her 'mid the flowers._

_Eyes, talismanic heliotrope,
Beneath mesmeric lashes, where
The sorceries of love and hope
Had made a shining lair._

_And daydawn brows, whereover hung
The twilight of dark locks; and lips,
Whose beauty spoke the rose's tongue
Of fragrance-voweled drips._

_I will not tell of cheeks and chin,
That held me as sweet language holds;
Nor of the eloquence within
Her bosom's moony molds._

_Nor of her large limbs' languorous
Wind-grace, that glanced like starlight through
Her ardent robe's diaphanous
Web of the mist and dew._

_There is no star so pure and high
As was her look; no fragrance such
At her soft presence; and no sigh
Of music like her touch._

_Not while I live may I forget
That garden of dim dreams! where I
And Song within the spirit met,
Sweet Song, who passed me by._




CONTENTS.


PAGE
A Fallen Beech 1
The Haunted Woodland 3
Discovery 4
Comradery 5
Occult 6
Wood-Words 7
The Wind at Night 10
Airy Tongues 11
The Hills 13
Imperfection 14
Arcanna 15
Spring 15
Response 16
Fulfillment 16
Transformation 17
Omens 17
Abandoned 18
The Creek Road 19
The Covered Bridge 19
The Hillside Grave 20
Simulacra 20
Before the End 21
Winter 21
Hoar Frost 22
The Winter Moon 22
In Summer 23
Rain and Wind 24
Under Arcturus 25
October 27
Bare Boughs 28
A Threnody 30
Snow 31
Vagabonds 31
An Old Song 32
A Rose o' the Hills 33
Dirge 34
Rest 35
Clairvoyance 36
Indifference 37
Pictured 37
Serenade 38
Kinship 39
She is So Much 40
Her Eyes 41
Messengers 42
At Twenty-One 43
Baby Mary 44
A Motive in Gold and Gray 45
A Reed Shaken with the Wind 50
A Flower of the Fields