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1911
The verses composing this volume have been selected by the author almostentirely from the five-volume edition of his poems published by theBobbs-Merrill Company in 1907. A number have been included from the threeor four volumes which have been published since the appearance of theCollected Poems; namely, three poems from the volume entitled "NatureNotes and Impressions," E. P. Button & Co., New York; one poem from "TheGiant and the Star," Small, Maynard & Co., Boston; Section VII and part ofSection VIII of "An Ode" written in commemoration of the founding of theMassachusetts Bay Colony, and published by John P. Morton & Co.,Louisville, Ky.; some five or six poems from "New Poems," published inLondon by Mr. Grant Richards in 1909; and three or four selections fromthe volume of selections entitled "Kentucky Poems," compiled by Mr. EdmundGosse and published in London by Mr. Grant Richards in 19O2.Acknowledgment and thanks for permission to reprint the various poemsincluded in this volume are herewith made to the different publishers.
The two poems, "in Arcady" and "The Black Knight" are new and arepublished here for the first time.
In making the selections for the present book Mr. Cawein has endeavored tocover the entire field of his poetical labors, which extends over aquarter of a century. With the exception of his dramatic work, aswitnessed by one volume only, "The Shadow Garden," a book of plays four innumber, published in 1910, the selection herewith presented by us is, inour opinion, representative of the author's poetical work.
The Poetry of Madison Cawein.
Hymn to Spiritual Desire.
Beautiful-Bosomed, O Night.
Discovery.
O Maytime Woods.
The Redbird.
A Niello.
In May.
Aubade.
Apocalypse.
Penetralia.
Elusion.
Womanhood.
The Idyll of the Standing-Stone.
Noëra.
The Old Spring.
A Dreamer of Dreams.
Deep in the Forest
I. Spring on the Hills.
II. Moss and Fern.
III. The Thorn Tree.
IV. The Hamadryad.
Preludes.
May.
What Little Things.
In the Shadow of the Beeches.
Unrequited.
The Solitary.
A Twilight Moth.
The Old Farm.
The Whippoorwill.
Revealment.
Hepaticas.
The Wind of Spring.
The Catbird.
A Woodland Grave.
Sunset Dreams.
The Old Byway.
"Below the Sunset's Range of Rose".
Music of Summer.
Midsummer.
The Rain-Crow.
Field and Forest Call.
Old Homes.
The Forest Way.
Sunset and Storm.
Quiet Lanes.
One who loved Nature.
Garden Gossip.
Assumption.
Senorita.
Overseas.
Problems.
To a Windflower.
Voyagers.
The Spell.
Uncertainty.
In the Wood.
Since Then.
Dusk in the Woods.
Paths.
The Quest.
The Garden of Dreams.
The Path to Faery.
There are Faerie