Adelaide Crapsey Quotes

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

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Fall, Snow, Justice

  "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

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

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Fall, Tree, Listening

  Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”

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• 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

  Travel, Wind, Sea

  Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”

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• 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

  Lying, Important, Venture

  Adelaide Crapsey (1918). “A Study in English Metrics”

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

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Thinking, Like Me

  Adelaide Crapsey, “Amaze”

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• The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Wind, Tree, Chaos

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