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Category: Adelaide Crapsey

Adelaide Crapsey

Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly…Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!

independence, travel

Adelaide Crapsey

Ere the horne’d owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away, ‘Here’s a King,’ the worms shall say.

death, mortality, vanity

Adelaide Crapsey

In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sighing Of Greece.

flowers, greece, hyacinth, smell

Adelaide Crapsey

But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

death, growing-old, immortality

Adelaide Crapsey

When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx, Learned all his dreaming from eyes. I bore in Greece a burning name, And I have been in Italy Madonna to a painter-lad, And mistress to a Medici. And have you heard (and I have heard) Of puzzled men with decorous mien, Who judged – the wench knew far too much – And burnt her on the Salem green?

immortality, witch, witch-hunts, witchcraft

Adelaide Crapsey

Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan, The moon.

autumn, moon, waterfall

Adelaide Crapsey

As it Were tissue of silver I’ll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.

Adelaide Crapsey

Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon’s Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?

coldness, lunatic, moon

Adelaide Crapsey

No guile? Nay, but so strangely He moves among us. . Not this Man but Barabbas! Release to us Barabbas!

barabbas, religious

Adelaide Crapsey

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

death, moon, night, shadow

Adelaide Crapsey

With night’s Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

night, refuge, sleeping, weariness

Adelaide Crapsey

Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady: Red for the five Wounds of her Son.

jesus-christ, religious, virgin-mary