Adelaide Crapsey Quotes

United States, Poet
September 9, 1878 – October, 8, 1914.

Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester, New York, daughter of Adelaide T. Crapsey and Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who had moved from New York City to Rochester.

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

Adelaide Crapsey
- Dead
- Snow
- Mouth
The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?

Adelaide Crapsey
- Wind
- Trees

I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.

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

Adelaide Crapsey
- Fall
- Sound
- Listen