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Famous Short Adelaide Crapsey Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Adelaide Crapsey. A collection of the all-time best Adelaide Crapsey short poems

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

Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly…
Where be bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me!

With swift
Great sweep of her
Magnificent arm my pain
Clanged back the doors that shut my soul
From life.

Look up…
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind…look up, and scent
The snow!

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

Well and
If day on day
Follows, and weary year
On year…and ever days and years…
Well?

Keep thou
Thy tearless watch
All night but when blue-dawn
Breathes on the silver moon, then weep!
Then weep!

But me
They cannot touch,
Old Age and death…the strange
And ignominious end of old
Dead folk!

The cold
With steely clutch
Grips all the land…alack,
The little people in the hills
Will die!

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

If it
Were lighter touch
Than petal of flower resting
On grass, oh still too heavy it were,
Too heavy!

"Why do
You thus devise
Evil against her?" "For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore."