Monday 31 October 2011
Adelaide Crapsey (9/9/1878- 8/10/14) - The Witch
When I was a girl by Nilus stream
I watched the desert stars arise;
My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx,
Learned all his dreaming from my 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 heard ( and I have heard)
Of puzzled men with decorous mien,
Who judged - The wrench knows far too much-
And hanged her on the Salem green?
Adellaide Crapsey , grew up in Rochester, New York. Educated at Vassar College. Spent her life teaching, studying and writing poems. Her poetry A study of English Metrics was published in 1918, after her death in a sanatorium of tuberculosis.
The Witch from 'Verse' by Adelaide Crapsey 1922.
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