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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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