Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD SPRING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poet's Biography First Line: Under rocks whereon the rose Last Line: Falling, flowing, wild and white. Subject(s): Springs (water) | ||||||||
I UNDER rocks whereon the rose Like a strip of morning glows; Where the azure-throated newt Drowses on the twisted root; And the brown bees, humming homeward, Stop to suck the honey-dew; Fern and leaf-hid, gleaming gloamward, Drips the wildwood spring I knew, Drips the spring my boyhood knew. II Myrrh and music everywhere Haunt its cascades; -- like the hair That a naiad tosses cool, Swimming strangely beautiful, With white fragrance for her bosom, For her mouth a breath of song: -- Under leaf and branch and blossom Flows the woodland spring along, Sparkling, singing flows along. III Still the wet wan mornings touch Its gray rocks, perhaps; and such Slender stars as dusk may have Pierce the rose that roofs its wave; Still the thrush may call at noontide And the whippoorwill at night; Nevermore, by sun or moontide, Shall I see it gliding white, Falling, flowing, wild and white. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOB-NY-USHTEY (WATER'S MOUTH) by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN LOST VALLEY by GLENN WARD DRESBACH THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 82 by HAN SHAN THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49 by HAN SHAN OUR LADY'S WELL by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST by ROBERT HERRICK FOUNTAIN by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV SONNET: 1. A MOUNTAIN SPRING by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL TO A MOUNTAIN SPRING by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE KU KLUX by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |
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