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The Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey

Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914)

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“VERSE”
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Part I
  
Birth-Moment
  
The Mother Exultant
  
John Keats
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Cinquains 1911–1913
  
November Night
  
Release
  
Triad
  
Snow
  
Anguish
  
Trapped
  
Moon-shadows
  
Susanna And The Elders
  
Youth
  
Languor After Pain
  
The Guarded Wound
  
Winter
  
Night Winds
  
Arbutus
  
Roma Aeterna
  
[Not thou]
  
Amaze
  
Shadow
  
Fate Defied
  
Madness
  
The Warning
  
Saying of Il Haboul Guardian Of The Treasure Of Solomon And Keeper Of The Prophet's Armour
  
The Death Of Holofernes
  
Laurel In the Berkshires
  
Niagara
  
The Grand Canyon
  
Now Barabbas Was A Robber
  
Refuge In Darkness
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Part II
  
To Walter Savage Landor
  
The Pledge
  
Hypnos, God of Sleep
  
Expenses
  
Adventure
  
On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees
  
Warning To The Mighty
  
Oh, Lady, Let The Sad Tears Fall
  
Dirge
  
The Sun-Dial
  
The Entombment
  
Autumn
  
Ah me.. Alas..
  
Perfume of Youth
  
Rapunzel
  
Narcissus
  
Vendor's Song
  
AVIS
  
Doom
  
Grain Field
  
Song
  
Pierrot
  
The Monk In The Garden
  
The Mourner
  
Night
  
Harvesters' Song
  
ROSE-MARY OF THE ANGELS
  
Angélique
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Chimes
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(3)
  
Mad-Song
  
The Witch
  
Cry Of The Nymph To Eros
  
Cradle-Song
  
To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality Bidding Him Look Nearer Home.
  
The Lonely Death
  
Lo, All The Way
  
The Crucifixion
  
The Immortal Residue
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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
  
The Source
  
For Lucas Cranach's Eve
  
Blue Hyacinths.
  
[Fresher]
  
[Why have]
  
Lunatick.
  
[Thou art not friendly sleep that hath delayed]
  
[Nor moon]
  
Old Love
  
My Birds That Fly No Longer
  
The Elgin Marbles
  
Safe.
  
Sad of Heart.
  
The Event.
  
The Companions
  
Epigram
  
You Nor I Nor Nobody Knows
  
The Proud Poet
  
The Plaint
  
Endymion.
  
[What news comrade upon the mountain top]
  
[Now doth blue kirtled night relume the stars]
  
Tears.
  
John-a-dreams—
  
Incantation.
  
Milking Time
  
The Fiddler
  
Aubade.
  
The Parting.
  
As I Went
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ADDITIONAL POEMS II
  
Lines Addressed To My Left Lung Inconveniently Enamoured Of Plant-Life
  
Lament
  
Grave Digger Catch
  
The Song of Choice.
  
The Two Mothers
  
The Expulsion
  
Dooms-Day
  
[I offer my self to you as cool water in cup of crystal]
  
Evil.
  
La Morte
  
Girl Fleeing Love
  
[It's oh, my dear, the sun shines clear]
  
Clotilda Sings
  
Journey's End.
  
There's a gay girl laughing.
  
Champagne.
  
The Black-mailing Ruffian.
  
Bob White.
  
An Early Christian Hymn “How doth the Heathen rage”
  
Non Solo.
  
To Anacreon.
  
Traces of the Rustic in Amos.
  
Truthful Love.
  
The Golden Princess.
  
The changed request O que m'importe que tu sois sage Sois belle et sois triste
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UNDERGRADUATE POEMS
  
Loneliness.
  
Time Flies.
  
The Heart of a Maid.
  
Repentance.
  
Hail Mary!
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CHEROKEE INDIAN CHARMS
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(1) Love Charm—
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(2) Charm to cure the bite of a snake.

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Evil.

In place secluded from the skies
A silent woman with strange eyes
Hiddenly waiting sits alone
Upon a royal-massive throne
Of smoothly polished malachite;
An emeraldine curious light
Fills all the place and through its chill
Sapphired pale glow, arrested still,
Unpalpitant as heart of death,
I watch her soft-drawn patient breath...
I will go creeping softly in
Her eyes are promises of sin.
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