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Verse by Adelaide Crapsey QUOTES

Verse by Adelaide Crapsey QUOTES

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

― Adelaide Crapsey , Verse by Adelaide Crapsey

2 " And the centurion who stood by said:
Truly this was a son of God.
Not long ago but everywhere I go
There is a hill and a black windy sky.
Portent of hill, sky, day's eclipse I know;
Hill, sky, the shuddering darkness, these am I.
The dying at His right hand, at His left,
I am - the thief redeemed and the lost thief;
I am the careless folk; I those bereft,
The Well-Belov'd, the women bowed in grief.
The gathering Presence that in terror cried,
In earth's shock in the Temple's veil rent through,
I; and a watcher, ignorant, curious-eyed,
I the centurion who heard and knew "

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3 " Peter stands by the gate,
And Michael by the throne.
'Peter, I would pass the gate
And come before the throne.'
'Whose spirit prayed never at the gate
In life nor at the throne,
In death he may not pass the gate
To come before the throne:'
Peter said from the gate;
Said Michael from the throne. "

― Adelaide Crapsey , Verse by Adelaide Crapsey

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

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

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6 " Three grey women walk with me
Fate and Grief and Memory.

My fate brought grief; my grief must be
With me through Eternity,
Such thy power, memory.
Three grey women walk with me. "

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

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

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

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

Oh, let thy bosom breathe its grief
In such soft sigh
As hath the wind in gardens where
Pale roses die. "

― Adelaide Crapsey , Verse by Adelaide Crapsey

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

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

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13 " 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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14 " Reap, reap the grain and gather
The sweet grapes from the vine;
Our Lord's mother is weeping,
She hath nor bread nor wine;
She is weeping. The Queen of Heaven,
She hath nor bread nor wine. "

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15 " 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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16 " Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead. "

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

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

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19 " 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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20 " Dost thou
Not feel them slip,
How cold! how cold! the moon's
Thin wavering finger-tips, along
Thy throat? "

― Adelaide Crapsey , Verse by Adelaide Crapsey