Amaze

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

Credit

This poem is in the public domain.

About this Poem

“Amaze” was published in Verse (The Manas Press, 1915).

Author

Adelaide Crapsey

Adelaide Crapsey was born on September 9, 1878, in Brooklyn Heights, New York. She was the third child of the Reverend Algernon Sidney Crapsey and Adelaide Trowbridge Crapsey. Within the first year after Crapsey was born, her father became rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Parish in Rochester, New York, where the family then moved.

Date Published

01/01/1915