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Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady...

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When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphi...

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

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

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

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

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

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Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be Wit...

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

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

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

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

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Peter stands by the gate, And Michael by the throne. 'Peter, I would pass the gate And come before t...

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

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And the centurion who stood by said: Truly this was a son of God. Not long ago but everywhere I go T...

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Ere the horne'd owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News o...

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

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

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Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All ...

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

Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord's mother is weeping, She ha...

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

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

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

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

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Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain...

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Adelaide Crapsey

Poet

Born: 1878-09-09

Died: 1914-10-08

Adelaide Crapsey (9 September 1878 – 8 October 1914) was an American poet. In the years before her death, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a five-line form of twenty-two syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka. Her cinquain has a generally iambic meter and consists of two syllables in the first and last lines and four, six and eight syllables in the middle three lines.More