One Day And Another

About this eBook

Author

Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914

Title

One Day & Another: A Lyrical Eclogue

Credits

Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

33171

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33171

Release Date

July 15, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ONE DAY AND ANOTHER — A Lyrical Eclogue — ONE DAY & ANOTHER — A Lyrical Eclogue
3. 3.MADISON CAWEIN — THE LYRIC LIBRARY — BOSTON Richard G Badger & Company (Incorporated) 1901 — TO G. F. M. THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED IN MEMORY OF MANY DAYS. — ONE DAY AND ANOTHER — A Lyrical Eclogue
4. 4.PART I — LATE SPRING — 1 — Outside her garden. He waits musing. — 2 — Dusk deepens. A whippoorwill calls. — 3 — He enters her garden, speaking dreamily: — 4 — She approaches, laughing. She speaks,— — HE — SHE — HE — SHE — HE — SHE — HE — SHE — HE — 5 — She stands smiling at him. She speaks: — He speaks: — 6 — Moths flutter around them. She speaks: — 7 — Taking her hand, he says: — She roguishly: — 8 — Then, regarding him seriously, she continues: — 9 — Leaving the garden for the lane. He, with lightness of heart. — She, responding to his mood: — HE — SHE — 10 — He, suddenly and very earnestly: — 11 — She, musingly: — 12 — He, with conviction. — 13 — They enter the garden again.... She, somewhat pensively. — 14 — He, observing the various flowers around them: — 15 — She, seriously: — 16 — He, after a pause, lightly: — 17 — She, standing among the flowers: — 18 — He, at parting, as they proceed down the garden:
5. 5.PART II — EARLY SUMMER — 1 — She delays, meditating. A rainy afternoon. — 2 — They meet. He speaks. — She speaks. — 3 — They meet again under the greenwood tree. He speaks: — 4 — Entering the skiff, she speaks: — 5 — He speaks, rowing. — She speaks. — He speaks. — 6 — She sings. — 7 — He speaks, letting the boat drift. — 8 — Landing, he sings. — She sings. — He speaks. — 9 — Homeward through flowers; she speaks: — 10 — He speaks, musingly. — 11 — She speaks, dreamily. — 12 — He laughs, wishing to dispel her seriousness: — 13 — She interrupts him, speaking impetuously: — 14 — Nearing home, he speaks. — 15 — At the gate. She speaks. — 16 — He, at parting:
6. 6.PART III — LATE SUMMER — 1 — Musing he strolls among the quiet lanes by farm and field. — 2 — He is reminded of another day with her. — 3 — He enters the woods. He sits down despondently. — 4 — He proceeds in the direction of a stream. — 5 — He seats himself on a rock and gazes steadily into the stream. — 6 — Taking a letter from his pocket, he hurries away. — 7 — After the last meeting; the day following. — 8 — He walks aimlessly on. — 9 — He compares the present day with a past one. — 10 — He pauses before a deserted house by the roadside. — 11 — He proceeds on his way. — 12 — Among the twilight fields.
7. 7.PART IV — LATE AUTUMN — 1 — Sick and sad, propped among pillows, she sits at her window. — 2 — She gazes out upon the dying garden. — 3 — She muses upon the past. — 4 — She takes up a book and reads. — 5 — She lays down the book. — 6 — She writes to him to come to her. — 7 — The wind rises; the trees are agitated. — 8 — She muses in the gathering twilight. — 9 — He enters. Taking her in his arms he speaks. — 10 — She smiles through her tears; holding his hands she speaks.
8. 8.PART V — WINTER — 1 — In the silence of his room. After many days. — 2 — The bitterness of his bereavement speaks in him. — 3 — Her dead face seems to rise up before him. — 4 — He sinks into deep thought. — 5 — He arouses from his abstraction. — 6 — He looks from his window toward the sombre west. — 7 — He turns from the window, takes up a book and reads. — 8 — The storm is heard sounding wildly with wind and hail. — 9 — He sits by the slowly dying fire. The storm is heard with increased violence.
9. 9.THE LYRIC LIBRARY — Other volumes in preparation. 16 mo. Flexible Leather. $1.25.
10. 10.A book of poetry worth while. — POEMS OF THE TOWN — By ERNEST McGAFFEY — IRISH MIST AND SUNSHINE — BALLADS AND LYRICS BY — REV. JAMES B. DOLLARD (Sliav-na-mon) — FOUR DAYS OF GOD — By Harriet Prescott Spofford

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