In this post we’re going to read a gorgeous poem by Madison Julius Cawein (1865–1914). Entitled “A Night in June”, it’s found in Kentucky Poems, an anthology of his works published in New York in 1903.
‘Hallowmas’ by Madison Julius Cawein
There's about a dozen poets that I've always felt a special affinity to. Some well-known names are among them, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, but there are also those whose works seem to have fallen out of favour with the reading public and who are no longer household names. One …