Explore "Summer" by Madison Cawein on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
/ I. Now Lucifer ignites her taper bright / To greet the wild-flowered Dawn, / Who leads the tasseled Summer draped with light / Down heaven's gilded lawn. / Hark to the minstrels of the woods, / Tuning glad harps in haunted solitudes! / List to the rillet's music soft, / The tree's hushed song: / Flushed from her star aloft / Comes blue-eyed Summer stepping meek along.
/ II. And as the lusty lover leads her in, / Clad in soft blushes red, / With breezy lips her love he tries to win, / Doth many a tear-drop shed: / While airy sighs, dyed in his heart, / Like Cupid's arrows, flame-tipped o'er her dart, / He bends his yellow head and craves / The timid maid / For one sweet kiss, and laves / Her rose-crowned locks with tears until 'tis paid.