Adelaide Crapsey

Poems (10)

• Adventure

  Sun and wind and beat of sea, / Great lands stretching endlessly … …

• Cinquains - Fate Defied

  As it / Were tissue of silver …

• Cinquains - November Night

  Listen. / with faint dry sound, …

• Cinquains - Susanna and the Elders

  “why do / You thus devise …

• Cinquains - The Guarded Wound

  If it / Were lighter touch …

• Cinquains - The Warning

  Just now, / Out of the strange …

• Cinquains - Triad

  These be / Three silent things: …

• Expenses

  Little my lacking fortunes show / For this to eat and that to wear; …

• The Lonely Death

  In the cold I will rise, I will bathe / In waters of ice; myself …

• The Pledge

  White doves of Cytherea, by your quest / Across the blue Heaven’s bluest highest air, …