To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window
by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1915)

1. How can you lie so still? All day I watch
2. And never a blade of all the green sod moves
3. To show where restlessly you toss and turn,
4. And fling a desperate arm or draw up knees
5. Stiffened and aching from their long disuse;
6. I watch all night and not one ghost comes forth
7. To take its freedom of the midnight hour.
8. Oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?
9. The very worms must scorn you where you lie,
10. A pallid mouldering acquiescent folk,
11. Meek habitants of unresented graves.
12. Why are you there in your straight row on row
13. Where I must ever see you from my bed
14. That in your mere dumb presence iterate
15. The text so weary in my ears: “Lie still
16. And rest; be patient and lie still and rest.”
17. I’ll not be patient! I will not lie still!

In context, the word “text” (line 15) most likely suggests ________________.

To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window
by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1915)

1. How can you lie so still? All day I watch
2. And never a blade of all the green sod moves
3. To show where restlessly you toss and turn,
4. And fling a desperate arm or draw up knees
5. Stiffened and aching from their long disuse;
6. I watch all night and not one ghost comes forth
7. To take its freedom of the midnight hour.
8. Oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?
9. The very worms must scorn you where you lie,
10. A pallid mouldering acquiescent folk,
11. Meek habitants of unresented graves.
12. Why are you there in your straight row on row
13. Where I must ever see you from my bed
14. That in your mere dumb presence iterate
15. The text so weary in my ears: “Lie still
16. And rest; be patient and lie still and rest.”
17. I’ll not be patient! I will not lie still!

In context, the meaning of the word “dumb” (line 14) is closest to ________________.

As used in the passage, "shrinking" most nearly means to ________________.

Based on context, what does "drest" (line 34) mean?

Based on context, what does the word "cloy'd" (line 29) most likely mean?  

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hours we have spent 
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! 
And more must, in yet longer light's delay. 
With witness I speak this. But where I say 
Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament 
Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent 
To dearest him that lives alas! away. 

I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree 
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; 
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse. 
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see 
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be 
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

(1918) 

In this context, "gall" (line 9) most likely refers to: __________. 

Passage adapted from the Prologue of Piers Plowman by William Langland (1390)

With that there ran a rout of rats at once, 
And small mice with them · more than thousand, 
And came to a council · for their common profit; 
For a cat from the Court · came when he liked 
And o'er leaped them lightly · and caught them at will, 
Played with them perilously · and pushed them about. 
`For dread of divers dangers · we dare not look about; 
If we grumble at his game · he will attack us all, 
Scratch us or clutch us · and in his claws hold us,                              

So that we loathe life · ere he lets us go. 
Could we with any wit · his will withstand 
We might be lords above him · and live at our ease.'

In this passage, the word "rout" most closely means ___________________.

Passage adapted from the Prologue of Piers Plowman by William Langland (1390)

With that there ran a rout of rats at once, 
And small mice with them · more than thousand, 
And came to a council · for their common profit; 
For a cat from the Court · came when he liked 
And o'er leaped them lightly · and caught them at will, 
Played with them perilously · and pushed them about. 
`For dread of divers dangers · we dare not look about; 
If we grumble at his game · he will attack us all, 
Scratch us or clutch us · and in his claws hold us,                               

So that we loathe life · ere he lets us go. 
Could we with any wit · his will withstand 
We might be lords above him · and live at our ease.'

In this passage, the word "loathe" most closely means ________________.

Passage adapted from the Prologue of Piers Plowman by William Langland (1390)

With that there ran a rout of rats at once, 
And small mice with them · more than thousand, 
And came to a council · for their common profit; 
For a cat from the Court · came when he liked 
And o'er leaped them lightly · and caught them at will, 
Played with them perilously · and pushed them about. 
`For dread of divers dangers · we dare not look about; 
If we grumble at his game · he will attack us all, 
Scratch us or clutch us · and in his claws hold us,                               

So that we loathe life · ere he lets us go. 
Could we with any wit · his will withstand 
We might be lords above him · and live at our ease.'

Based on the rest of the passage, what does the word "perilously" mean?

Based on context, what is "fold" most likely referring to in line 1?