Crawford settled on a farm as his forefathers had done, but not being successful, became a clerk in Sydney and afterwards had a typewriting business.
Crawford is believed to have been the first prize-winning haiku poet published in Australia, in The Bulletin on 12 August 1899.
[1] In 1921 another volume, Leafy Bliss, was published, and an enlarged edition appeared three years later.
The statement that he was educated at The King's School originally appeared in The Bookfellow, and may have come direct from Crawford.
His work has a delicate charm and, though at times one fears it will not rise above merely pretty verse, in some of his quatrains and lyrics Crawford does succeed in writing poetry of importance.