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Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems

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<div class="notes"><h3>Transcriber's Notes</h3>List of Poems did not appear in original book. Original spellings and punctuation have been retained. Typographical error marked with mouse-hover pop-up. </div> <h3>LIST OF POEMS</h3> PROEM. A VOICE ON THE WIND THE LAND OF HEARTS MADE WHOLE THE WIND OF WINTER THE WIND OF SUMMER THE SPIRIT OF THE FOREST SPRING TO THE LEAF-CRICKET THE OWLET VINE AND SYCAMORE THE POET EVENING ON THE FARM THE BROOK SUMMER NOONTIDE HEAT JULY TO THE LOCUST YOUNG SEPTEMBER UNDER THE HUNTER'S MOON RAIN IN THE WOODS IN THE LANE A FOREST IDYL UNDER THE ROSE IN AUTUMN EPIPHANY LIFE NEVER MEETING IN THE WOODS A MAID WHO DIED OLD COMMUNICANTS THE DEAD DAY KNIGHT-ERRANT THE END OF SUMMER LIGHT AND WIND SUPERSTITION UNCALLED LOVE DESPISED THE DEATH OF LOVE GERALDINE, GERALDINE ALLUREMENT BLACK VESPER'S PAGEANTS. <h1>A Voice on the Wind</h1> <h3>And Other Poems</h3> <h3>by</h3> <h2>Madison Cawein</h2> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/dectriangle.png" width-obs="306" height-obs="194" alt="decorative triangle" title="" /></div> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> <tr><td align="center">Louisville</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">John P. Morton & Company, Publishers</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">1902</td></tr> </table></div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h4>Copyrighted 1902, by Madison Cawein</h4> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h5>For permission to reprint several of the poems included in this volume thanks are due to the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The Century Magazine, Smart Set, Saturday Evening Post, and Lippincott's Magazine.</h5> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h3>INSCRIBED</h3> <h4>TO</h4> <h2>EDMUND GOSSE </h2> <h5>AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF APPRECIATION AND ESTEEM </h5> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2>PROEM.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> Oh, for a soul that fulfills Music like that of a bird! Thrilling with rapture the hills, Heedless if any one heard. </div> <div class="stanza"> Or, like the flower that blooms Lone in the midst of the trees, Filling the woods with perfumes, Careless if any one sees. </div> <div class="stanza"> Or, like the wandering wind, Over the meadows that swings, Bringing wild sweets to mankind, Knowing not that which it brings. </div> <div class="stanza"> Oh, for a way to impart Beauty, no matter how hard! Like unto nature, whose art Never once dreams of reward. </div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> [Pg 1] <h1>A Voice on the Wind</h1> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/fleurdelis.png" width-obs="144" height-obs="84" alt="fleur-de-lis" title="" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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