Amaze
“
I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.
— Adelaide Crapsey
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these." in the context of "Amaze" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Adelaide Crapsey" (Quotes, Verses (1915))
The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
About Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (9 September 1878 – 8 October 1914) was an American poet. In the years before her death, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a five-line form of twenty-two syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka. Her cinquain has a generally iambic meter and consists of two syllables in the first and last lines and four, six and eight syllables in the middle three lines.
About Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (9 September 1878 – 8 October 1914) was an American poet. In the years before her death, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a five-line form of twenty-two syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka. Her cinquain has a generally iambic meter and consists of two syllables in the first and last lines and four, six and eight syllables in the middle three lines.
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