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Poem by Adelaide Crapsey


Languor after Pain


Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,

An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists.



Adelaide Crapsey


Adelaide Crapsey's other poems:
  1. Anguish
  2. The Companions
  3. Trapped
  4. Grain Field
  5. Snow


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