Potential Titles: Adelaide Crapsey

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A flickering light near spent - Adelaide Crapsey "Angelique"

Bonds to bind the free - Adelaide Crapsey "Adventure"

Keep thou thy tearless watch - Adelaide Crapsey "Anguish"

Wanton mistress to the veering winds - Adelaide Crapsey "Birth-Moment"

Before desire shall meet desire - Adelaide Crapsey "Birth-Moment"

And planted the seeds of her flowers - Adelaide Crapsey "Cry of the Nymph to Eros"

Never the nightingale - Adelaide Crapsey "Dirge"

Star-dust pays for no man's bread - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

The stars that tread the sky - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

The breath of the world that stops - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

The remote, cold place of ultimate dissolution - Adelaide Crapsey "John Keats"

My cool fingers of oblivion - Adelaide Crapsey "John Keats"

I will bathe in waters of ice - Adelaide Crapsey "The Lonely Death"

The dusted shimmer of dew - Adelaide Crapsey "The Monk in the Garden"

Wrung the wine of the dream - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mother Exultant"

I have no heart for noon-tide - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

In comfort's alien tongue - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

And even the veiled stars withdraw - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

And think them less forsaken - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

How near the heavens lie - Adelaide Crapsey "My Birds that Fly No Longer"

That blew when chaos was - Adelaide Crapsey "Night Winds"

Like the steps of passing ghosts - Adelaide Crapsey "November Night"

The wind in gardens where pale roses die - Adelaide Crapsey "Oh, Lady, Let the Sad Tears Fall"

Shake from your wilding throats - Adelaide Crapsey "The Plaint"

Run after a vanishing dream - Adelaide Crapsey "The Properly Scholarly Attitude"

A vapour that the wind dispels - Adelaide Crapsey "Saying of Il Haboul"

Lauger from a well of secret tears - Adelaide Crapsey "The Source"

The hours by their shadows - Adelaide Crapsey "The Sun-Dial"

In the pale hollow of those ghostly hands - Adelaide Crapsey "To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality"

No rebellion in your bones - Adelaide Crapsey "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window"

But with a spirit all unreconciled - Adelaide Crapsey "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window"

Whose rival is Persephone - Adelaide Crapsey "To Walter Savage Landor"

Never would cry my songs to sell - Adelaide Crapsey "The Vendor's Song"

Out of the strange still dusk - Adelaide Crapsey "The Warning"

Among the blind brown worms - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"

When the pomp is passed away - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"

Dear companion of my heart's shed blood - Adelaide Crapsey "White Rose"

Learned all his dreaming from my eyes - Adelaide Crapsey "The Witch"


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