Cinquains by Adelaide Crapsey. Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. 1922. The Second Book of Modern Verse

Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922.

Cinquains

Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914)


FATE DEFIED AS it
Were tissue of silver
I’ll wear, O fate, thy grey,
And go mistily radiant, clad
Like the moon.	5

NIGHT WINDS THE OLD
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?	10

THE WARNING JUST now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk … as strange, as still …
A white moth flew … Why am I grown
So cold?	15