9 Quotes by Madison Cawein

And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.

I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

Into the sunset’s turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me, – Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.

What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that’s born for an hour?

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.

Some shall reap that never sowAnd some shall toil and not attain.