This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It arranged in four sections: In The Shadow of the Beeches, Tansy and Sweet-Alyssum, Weeds by the Wall, and A Voice on the Wind. It is dedicated to "Doctor Henry A. Cottel whose kind words of friendship and approval have encouraged me most when I most needed encouragement."
( Larry Wilson)
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Ah you started the new Cawein, Larry Here's your MW and Jordan already has DPL access. 241 sections Please be careful to put them all in the correct order Also, I hope you counted them correctly, because as far as I know there is a maximum limit of 255 sections, so let's try to keep it below that.
I will probably claim some poems too once the MW is filled in. I already read many of this selection because we had Weeds by the Wall and A Voice on the Wind already as stand-alone projects and I read quite a few in there. I will make sure I will not read the same ones this time.
I will double check everything so we don't have a repeat of Vol. 5. I think Vol 4 has gone well and we're waiting on just one reader who has five poems claimed.
It will take me some time, but I'll work on it today.
7 Rain in the Woods
14 Forest and Field
20 Autumn
33 The Storm
42 A Gray Day
60 Dusk in the Woods
71 Wood-words
124 The Screech Owl
126 The Wild Iris
133 Feud
I saw this last night, but had to wait until the MW was filled in - at least until the poems I wanted to read were there.
Fritz
"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."
irondog70 wrote: ↑April 22nd, 2019, 4:00 pm
Hi Larry,
If is not too difficult.
Can you assign me any 5 poems, at your choice, besides the 19?
I’ll take it from there.
Much obliged sir,
Cornel
Well, I'd rather not be the one to choose for you. There is quite a variety here, so please look them over and make your choices, and I'll be glad to put you in for them.
Ok Larry,
I appreciate your "defense of others" doctrine. Why to throw me under the bus? Hahahaha!
I might succumb to an acute case of Cawein-itis. Not to joke with.
Here I am again, with clear wishes "Santa":
222, 223, 218,201 and 138
I hope I'm not overdoing myself into this poem-blood-bathing.