Myth and Romance

“There is no rhyme that is half so sweet” as wind sings through rippling wheat, a brook skips beneath rock and vine, and a forest bird gives voice to the poet’s dream. But when spring arrives, are those woodland calls only birdsong—or a Dryad beckoning from the trees?

In this late-nineteenth-century book of verses, Madison Julius Cawein follows the seasons through Kentucky’s woods, streams, fields, and hills, where sunlight seems to take shape and every ripple may conceal a spirit. His wandering speaker longs to learn nature’s music, yet the Dryad, Naiad, and mountain nymph remain just beyond sight, their voices drawing him deeper into a landscape where myth feels almost real. Even an ordinary shower or the sound of an old mill can open onto enchantment. How much of the unseen world is waiting in the familiar one?

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