Adelaide Crapsey Quotes

“These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow…the hour
Before the dawn…the mouth of one
Just dead.”

Adelaide Crapsey

Triad.
Verses (1915)

“I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.”

Adelaide Crapsey

Amaze
Verses (1915)

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

Adelaide Crapsey

"Night Winds".
Verses (1915)

“Listen.
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.”

Adelaide Crapsey

November Night.
Verses (1915)

“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”

Adelaide Crapsey

A Study in English Metrics Alfred Knopf New York 1918.