Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

Madison Cawein1865–1914

Deserted

THE OLD house leans upon a tree

Like some old man upon a staff:

The night wind in its ancient porch

Sounds like a hollow laugh.

The heaven is wrapped in flying clouds,

As grandeur cloaks itself in gray:

The starlight flitting in and out,

Glints like a lanthorn ray.

The dark is full of whispers. Now

A fox-hound howls: and through the night,

Like some old ghost from out its grave,

The moon comes, misty white.