{"id":10065,"date":"2023-10-24T00:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T00:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:38:29","slug":"the-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vampire by Madison Julius Cawein"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Vampire<\/h2>\n

by Madison Cawein<\/p>\n

A lily in a twilight place?
\nOr moonflower in the lonely night?\u2014
\nStrange beauty of a woman’s face
\nOf wildflower-white!<\/p>\n

The rain that hangs a star’s green ray
\nSlim on a leaf-point’s restlessness,
\nIs not so glimmering green and gray
\nAs was her dress.<\/p>\n

I drew her dark hair from her eyes,
\nAnd in their deeps beheld a while
\nSuch shadowy moonlight as the skies
\nOf Hell may smile.<\/p>\n

She held her mouth up, redly wan
\nAnd burning cold:\u2014I bent and kissed
\nSuch rosy snow as some wild dawn
\nMakes of a mist.<\/p>\n

God shall not take from me that hour,
\nWhen round my neck her white arms clung!
\nWhen ‘neath my lips, like some fierce flower,
\nHer white throat swung!<\/p>\n

Nor words she murmured while she leaned!
\nWitch-words, she holds me softly by,\u2014
\nThe spell that binds me to a fiend
\nUntil I die.<\/p>\n

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Madison Julius Cawein was an American poet born in 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was associated with the “Kentucky School” of writers and was known for his poetry featuring mystical themes of nature and mythology. Some of his notable published works include Blooms of the Berry (1898), Kentucky Poems (1900), Mystery and Romance (1901), and Myth and Romance (1908).<\/p>\n

Cawein’s style was heavily influenced by the English Romantic poets like Keats and Shelley, with much of his poetry conveying a dreamy, romantic, and imaginative tone. He led a largely reclusive life, suffering from depression and alcoholism in his later years. Cawein died by suicide in 1914 at the age of 49.<\/p>\n

At the peak of his career, Cawein was compared to renowned Romantic poets like Keats and Shelley. While mostly forgotten today, he was considered an influential regional American poet at the turn of the 20th century. His poem “The Vampire” is one example of his works dealing with supernatural subjects and themes. Though he died in obscurity, Cawein contributed a substantial body of mystical, nature-inspired poetry during his lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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