Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY, by EMMY VERONICA SANDERS First Line: You whom death wrung Last Line: Watch the gray night suspend a haggard moon. Subject(s): Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914) | ||||||||
You whom Death wrung That you might thus achieve Crystalline drops of beauty, Do not grieve That from the sun-drenched purple places They gathered you so soon . . . Envy us not who may, With withered faces, Watch the gray night suspend a haggard moon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HILLTOP DUET by EMMY VERONICA SANDERS SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT by THOMAS HARDY THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING by WALT WHITMAN TO MYRTILLA OF NEW YORK by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THIS I REMEMBER by ELISABETH CHANNING ALLEN AN OLD SAW NEWLY RENDERED by LEVI BISHOP SHEEPBELLS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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