18. Here Is the Place Where Loveliness Keeps House by Madison Cawein. Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed. 1917. The Little Book of Modern Verse

Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.

18. Here Is the Place Where Loveliness Keeps House

By Madison Cawein


HERE is the place where Loveliness keeps house,
Between the river and the wooded hills,
Within a valley where the Springtime spills
Her firstling wind-flowers under blossoming boughs:
Where Summer sits braiding her warm, white brows	5
With bramble-roses; and where Autumn fills
Her lap with asters; and old Winter frills
With crimson haw and hip his snowy blouse.
Here you may meet with Beauty. Here she sits
Gazing upon the moon, or all the day	10
Tuning a wood-thrush flute, remote, unseen:
Or when the storm is out, ’t is she who flits
From rock to rock, a form of flying spray,
Shouting, beneath the leaves’ tumultuous green.