Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“And if the many sayings of the wise Teach of submission I will not submit But with a spirit all unreconciled Flash an unquenched defiance to the stars.”
“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?”
“Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan, The moon.”
“Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.”
“Why have I thought the dew Ephemeral when I Shall rest so short a time, myself, On earth?”
“With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.”
“Listen . . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall.”
“Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.”
“Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.”
“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.”
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