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Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Just now, Out of the strange Still dusk ... as strange, as still ... A white moth flew ... Why am I grown So cold?

Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk ... as strange, as still ...
A white moth flew ... Why am I grown
So cold?

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: As it Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.

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

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.

If illness' end be health regained then I
Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.

I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.

Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Why have I thought the dew Ephemeral when I Shall rest so short a time, myself, On earth?

Why have I
thought the dew
Ephemeral when I
Shall rest so short a time, myself,
On earth?

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Is it as plainly in our living shown,By which way the wind hath blown?

Is it as plainly in our living shown,
By which way the wind hath blown?

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn grass, oh still too heavy it were,Too heavy!

If it
Were lighter touch
Than petal of flower resting
On grass, oh still too heavy it were,
Too heavy!

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

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

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Pain ebbs, And like cool balm, An opiate weariness Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed Pale wrists.

Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,
An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists.

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

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

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?

The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?

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

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

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: 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!

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!

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Look up ... From bleakening hillsBlows down the light, first breathOf wintry wind ... look up, and scentThe snow!

Look up ...
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind ... look up, and scent
The snow!

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: These be Three silent things: The Falling snow ... the hour Before the dawn ... the mouth of one Just dead.

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow ... the hour Before the dawn ... the mouth of one Just dead.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look In the pages of my book; And as these thy hand doth turn, Know here is my funeral urn.

Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look
In the pages of my book;
And as these thy hand doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Not thou, White rose, but thy Ensanguined sister is The dear companion of my heart's Shed blood.

Not thou,
White rose, but thy
Ensanguined sister is
The dear companion of my heart's
Shed blood.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: But me They cannot touch, Old age and death.the strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

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

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon's Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?

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

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

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

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

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

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.

Why do
You thus devise
Evil against her?' 'For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore.

Adelaide Crapsey quotes: Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And sweet.

Thou hast
Drawn laughter from
A well of secret tears
And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking
And sweet.