Quotes by : Adelaide Crapsey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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