‘Passing ghosts’

Listen. .

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees

And fall.

— “November Night,’’ by Adelaide Crapsey (1878-2014), an American poet. Originally from Rochester, N.Y., she taught at Miss Lowe's School, in Stamford, Conn., from 1906 to 1908, after which she taught at Smith College, in Northampton, Mass., for two years.

Passing ghosts

''Falling Autumn Leaves'' (oil), by Vincent van Gogh.

Listen. . .

With faint dry sound, 

Like steps of passing ghosts, 

The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees 

And fall.

-- "November Night,'' by Adelaide Crapsey