Thursday, October 31, 2019

All Hallows Night / Lizette Woodworth Reese


All Hallows Night

Two things I did on Hallows Night:—
Made my house April-clear;
Left open wide my door
To the ghosts of the year.

Then one came in. Across the room
It stood up long and fair —
The ghost that was myself —
And gave me stare for stare.

~~
Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
from Selected Poems, 1926

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the European Union]

Lizette Woordworth Reese biography

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