Adelaide Crapsey Poems
- 1. The Warning
Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk . . . as strange, as still . . .
A white moth flew . . . Why am I grown
... - 2. The Lonely Death
In the cold I will rise, I will bathe
In waters of ice; myself
Will shiver, and shrive myself,
Alone in the dawn, and anoint
... - 3. Song
I make my shroud, but no one knows-
So shimmering fine it is and fair,
With stitches set in even rows,
I make my shroud, but no one knows.
... - 4. Night Winds
The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
... - 5. Fate Defied
As it
Were tissue of silver
I'll wear, O fate, thy grey,
And go mistily radiant, clad
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