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Verse

Adelaide Crapsey

Adelaide Crapsey's experimental poetry included her creation of the cinquain. This recording was taken from the posthumously published and expanded 1922 edition of her verse. (Summary by Newgatenovelist) (1 hr 11 min)

Chapters

The Mother Exultant

Susanna and the Elders

The Guarded Wound

''He's Killed the May...''

Saying of Il Haboul

Laurel in the Berkshires

The Grand Canyon

Now Barabbas was a Robber

For Lucas Cranach's Eve

To Walter Savage Landor

Hypnos, God of Sleep

On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees

Oh, Lady, Let the Sad Tears Fall

Ah Me... Alas...

Perfume of Youth

The Monk in the Garden

To the Dead in the Graveyard underneath My Window

Rose-Mary of the Angels

My Birds That Fly No Longer

Cry of the Nymph to Eros

To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality, Bidding Him Look Nearer Home

The Lonely Death

Lo, All the Way

The Elgin Marbles

The Crucifixion

The Fiddling Lad

The Immortal Residue