Adelaide Crapsey

English Poem “Vendor’s Song” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

Vendor’s Song Adelaide Crapsey My songs to sell, sweet maid! I pray you buy. Here’s one will win a lady’s tears, Here’s one will make her gay, Here’s one will charm your true love true Forever and a day; Good sir, I pray you buy! XOh, no, she will not buy.Y My songs to sell, …

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English Poem “To The Dead In The Grave-Yard Under My Window” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

To The Dead In The Grave-Yard Under My Window Adelaide Crapsey How can you lie so still? All day I watch And never a blade of all the green sod moves To show where restlessly you toss and turn, And fling a desperate arm or draw up knees Stiffened and aching from their long disuse; …

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English Poem “The Witch” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

The Witch Adelaide Crapsey When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx, Learned all his dreaming from eyes. I bore in Greece a burning name, And I have been in Italy Madonna to a painter-lad, And mistress to a Medici. And have you …

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English Poem “The Properly Scholarly Attitude” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

The Properly Scholarly Attitude Adelaide Crapsey The poet pursues his beautiful theme; The preacher his golden beatitude; And I run after a vanishing dream The glittering, will-o-the-wispish gleam Of the properly scholarly attitude The highly desirable, the very advisable, The hardly acquirable, properly scholarly attitude. I envy the savage without any clothes, Who lives in …

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English Poem “The Plaint” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

The Plaint Adelaide Crapsey Musicians O Musicians: Heartsease Heartsease: an you will have me live play heartsease. Light wind in the small green leaves Play, oh play, my sad heart ease; Birds, shake from your wilding throats Tuneed charm of happy notes; Shepherd, shepherd, pipe a shrill A jocound pipe o’er vale and hill; For …

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English Poem “The Parting” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

The Parting Adelaide Crapsey Was it love breathed on us as on the skies Dawn breathes for a short space and then is fled; Or loved we never at all who but misread With too dim vision the guarded mysteries? Were we unfaithful or were we unwise, Knew we not love, or if our love …

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English Poem “The Mourner” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

The Mourner Adelaide Crapsey I have no heart for noon-tide and the sun, But I will take me where more tender night Shakes, fold on fold, her dewy darkness down. And shelters me that I may weep in peace, And feel no pitying eyes, and hear no voice Attempt my grief in comfort’s alien tongue. …

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English Poem “The Mother Exultant” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.

The Mother Exultant Adelaide Crapsey Joy! Joy! Joy! The hills are glad, The valleys re-echo with merriment, In my heart is the sound of laughter, And my feet dance to the time of it; Oh, little son, carried light on my shoulder, Let us go laughing and dancing through the live days, For this is …

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