Poem by Madison Julius Cawein

A Southern Girl

    Serious but smiling, stately and serene,
     And dreamier than a flower;
    A girl in whom all sympathies convene
     As perfumes in a bower;
    Through whom one feels what soul and heart may mean,
     And their resistless power.

    Eyes, that commune with the frank skies of truth,
     Where thought like starlight curls;
    Lips of immortal rose, where love and youth
     Nestle like two sweet pearls;
    Hair, that suggests the Bible braids of RUTH,
     Deeper than any girl's.

    When first I saw you, 't was as if within
     My soul took shape some song -
    Played by a master of the violin -
     A music pure and strong,
    That rapt my soul above all earthly sin
     To heights that know no wrong.

1. Response
2. Night and Storm at Gloucester
3. Sunset on the River
4. La Beale Isoud
5. Hylas

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