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Poems by Women

Cinquains

Adelaide Crapsey

    Fate Defied

As it
Were tissue of silver
I'll wear, O fate, thy grey,
And go mistily radiant, clad
Like the moon.

 

    Night Winds

The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?

 

    The Warning

Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk . . . as strange, as still . . .
A white moth flew . . .  Why am I grown
So cold?

From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).

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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.

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Author. "Poem Title."  Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon)

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