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The Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey

Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914)

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ADDITIONAL POEMS I

To The Dead In The Grave-Yard Under My Window:—Written in A Moment of Exasperation

To an Unfaithful Lover

To A Hermit Thrush

For Lucas Cranach's Eve

Blue Hyacinths.

[Thou art not friendly sleep that hath delayed]

My Birds That Fly No Longer

The Elgin Marbles

You Nor I Nor Nobody Knows

[What news comrade upon the mountain top]

[Now doth blue kirtled night relume the stars]

John-a-dreams—

ADDITIONAL POEMS II

UNDERGRADUATE POEMS

CHEROKEE INDIAN CHARMS

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[Now doth blue kirtled night relume the stars]

Now doth blue kirtled night relume the stars
Bidding them light my dear love on his way,
And for his coming takes all tender cares
That he shall find the night more sweet than day.