Adelaide Crapsey

The Witch

When I was girl by Nilus stream
 
I watched the deserts stars arise;
 
My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx,
 
Learned all his dreaming from eyes.
 
 
I bore in Greece a burning name,
 
And I have been in Italy
 
Madonna to a painter-lad,
 
And mistress to a Medici.
 
 
And have you heard (and I have heard)
 
Of puzzled men with decorous mien,
 
Who judged– the wench knew far too much –
 
And burnt her on the Salem green?
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