Adelaide Crapsey Poems

  • 1.
    Just now,
    Out of the strange
    Still dusk . . . as strange, as still . . .
    A white moth flew . . . Why am I grown
    ...
  • 2.
    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.
    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.
    The old
    Old winds that blew
    When chaos was, what do
    They tell the clattered trees that I
    ...
  • 5.
    As it
    Were tissue of silver
    I'll wear, O fate, thy grey,
    And go mistily radiant, clad
    ...
Total 5 Poems by Adelaide Crapsey

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Cold 2 Light 1 Strange 1 White 1 Warning 1 Straight 1 Ice 1 Place 1 Rise 1 Lonely 1

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