Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet known for her concise and direct style. Her works often explore themes of death, loneliness, and religion, having a profound impact on modern poetry.
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“Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.”
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“Is it as plainly in our living shown, By which way the wind hath blown?”
“If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.”
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“But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!”
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“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”
“I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.”