Niagara
Seen on a Night in November
How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumnal, evanescent, wan, The moon.
Adelaide Crapsey
Seen on a Night in November
How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumnal, evanescent, wan, The moon.
On a chilly November night, the speaker stands near the immense roar of Niagara Falls and looks up. Against all that crashing, muscular water, the moon seems startlingly delicate—"frail" and "wan," a pale ghost of autumn.
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