Chapter I: Front Matter

Weeds by the Wall

_VERSES_

BY
MADISON CAWEIN
Author of "Myth and Romance," "Undertones," "Garden of Dreams,"
"Shapes and Shadows," etc., etc.

_"I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall."_
--EMERSON.

LOUISVILLE
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY
1901

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY MADISON J. CAWEIN

TO
DR. HENRY A. COTTELL
_Whose Kind Words of Friendship and Approval have Encouraged
me when I Most Needed Encouragement._

_For permission to reprint most of the poems included in this volume thanks are due to the "Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's Magazine" and "Bazar," "Lippincott's," "Saturday Evening Post," "New England Magazine," "Leslie's Monthly," "Smart Set," "Truth," "Outlook," "Independent," "Youth's Companion," "Woman's Home Companion," "Munsey's," and a number of other periodicals and magazines._

CONTENTS.

PAGE
A Wild Iris 1
The Path by the Creek 2
The Road Home 5
A Twilight Moth 6
Along the Stream 8
The Cricket 9
Voices 11
The Grasshopper 12
The Tree Toad 13
The Screech-Owl 14
The Chipmunk 15
Love and a Day 16
Drouth 18
Before the Rain 20
The Broken Drouth 20
Feud 21
Unanointed 22
The End of All 24
Sunset and Storm 25
Beech Blooms 25
Worship 27
Unheard 28
Reincarnation 28
On Chenoweth's Run 29
Home Again 30
A Street of Ghosts 31
In the Shadow of the Beeches 33
Requiescat 34
The Quest 35
Meeting and Parting 36
Love in a Garden 37
Floridian 39
The Golden Hour 40
Reed Call for April 41
"The Years Wherein I Never Knew" 42
Mignon 42
Qui Docet, Discit 43
Transubstantiation 44
Helen 44
A Cameo 45
La Jeunesse et la Mort 46
Love and Loss 47
Sunset Clouds 47
Masked 48
Out of the Depths 49
Riches 50
Beauty and Art 50
The Age of Gold 51
The Love of Loves 52
Three Things 52
Immortelles 53
A Lullaby 54
Dum Vivimus 56
Failure 57
The Cup of Joy 58
Pestilence 59
Musings 60
At the Sign of the Skull 62
A Cavalier's Toast 63
Sleep is a Spirit 64
Kennst du das Land 65
At Midnight 65
The Man in Gray 66
Hallowe'en 67
The Image in the Glass 68
Her Prayer 70
The Message of the Lilies 71
A Legend of the Lily 72
The End of the Century 74
The Isle of Voices 77
A. D. Nineteen Hundred 81
Caverns 81
Of the Slums 82
The Winds 82
Prototypes 83
Touches 83
The Woman Speaks 84
Love, the Interpreter 84
Unanswered 85
Earth and Moon 85
Pearls 86
In the Forest 86
Enchantment 87
Dusk 87
The Blue Bird 88
Can Such Things Be? 88
The Passing Glory 89
September 89
Hoodoo 90
The Other Woman 91
A Song for Labor 92