Famous Cinquain Poems

Famous Cinquain Poems


Cinquain Poems by Adelaide Crapsey

November Night

Listen . . .
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.

Snow

Look up . . .
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind . . . look up, and scent
The snow!

Anguish

Keep thou
Thy tearless watch
All night but when blue-dawn
Breathes on the silver moon, then weep!
Then weep!

Trapped

Well and
If day on day
Follows and weary year
On year . . . and ever days and years . . . 
Well?

The Guarded Wound

If it
Were lighter touch
Than petal of flower resting
On grass, oh still too heavy it were,
Too heavy!


TRIAD

These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... the hour
Before the dawn... the mouth of one
Just dead.


Tree

Sturdy, Tall
Climbing, swinging, playing
Fun among the branches
Maple

Famous Cinquain Poems