Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Adelaide Crapsey

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Rochester, New York. Her parents were the businesswoman Adelaide T. Crapsey and the Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who moved from New York City to Rochester.

American - Poet | September 9, 1878 - October 8, 1914

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The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

Adelaide Crapsey

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

Adelaide Crapsey

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

Adelaide Crapsey

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!

Adelaide Crapsey

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

Adelaide Crapsey

I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.

Adelaide Crapsey

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Adelaide Crapsey

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