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.
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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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