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"Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crispd, break from the trees And fall."
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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.
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"My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure."
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"I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these."
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"These be Three silent things: The falling snow...the hour Before the dawn...the mouth of one Just dead."
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"The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?"
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