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Shapes and Shadows

This is a volume of poetry by Madison Julius Cawein. This collection contains many examples of Cawein's own particular style of dreamy poetry, strongly characterised by references to mythology and romance. At the same time, there is no shortage of references to his native Kentucky. - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 31 min)

Chapters

Under the Stars and Stripes

The Dedication

The Evanescent Beautiful

August

The Higher Brotherhood

Gramarye

Dreams

The Old House

The Rock

Rain

Standing-Stone Creek

The Moonmen

The Old Man Dreams

Since Then

Comrades

Waiting

Contrasts

In June

After long Grief and Pain

Can I forget?

The House of Fear

At Dawn

Storm

Memories

Which

Sunset in Autumn

The Legend of the Stone

Time and Death and Love

Passion

When the Wine-Cup at the Lip

Art

A Song for Old Age

Tristram and Isolt

The Better Lot

Dusk in the Woods

At the Ferry

Her Violin

Her Vesper Song

At Parting

Carissima Mea

Margery

Constance

Gertrude

Lydia

A Southern Girl

A Daughter of the States

An Autumn Night

Lines

The Blind God

A Valentine

A Catch

The New Year

Then and Now

Epilogue