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Western windows and other poems

Piatt, John James (1835-1917)

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WESTERN WINDOWS.

WESTERN WINDOWS.

THE MOWER IN OHIO.

READING THE MILESTONE.

THE PIONEER'S CHIMNEY.

FIRE BEFORE SEED.

FIRES IN ILLINOIS.

RIDING TO VOTE.

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SUNSHINE AND FIRELIGHT.

HIGHER TENANTS.

THE BLACKBERRY FARM.

THE MORNING STREET.

THE LOST HORIZON.

THE OLD MAN AND THE SPRING-LEAVES.

THE MASTER-KEY.

THE MONK'S VISION OF CHRIST.

THE FIRST FIRE.

TAKING THE NIGHT-TRAIN.

LEAVES AT MY WINDOW.

CHARITY AT HOME.

MARIAN'S FIRST HALF-YEAR.

FIRELIGHT ABROAD.

A LOST GRAVEYARD

THE UNHEARD BELL.

THE DARK STREET.

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THE MICROSCOPE AND TELESCOPE.

A DIAL AT A GRAVE.

THE HIPPOGRIFF.

FOR---, A POET.

TORCH-LIGHT IN FALL-TIME.

THE GOLDEN HAND.

THE GRAVE-ANGEL.

THE BURIED RING.

AT CHRISTMAS EVE.

FORESIGHT OF FATE.

TO ONE IN A DARKENED HOUSE.

TO GRACE AT CHRISTMAS.

TO MY BROTHER GUY,

THE BLUE-BIRD'S BURIAL.

FROST ON THE PANES.

FOR A GRAVESTONE.

THE SIGHT OF ANGELS.

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MY SHADOW'S STATURE.

TO A POET: ON HIS MARRIAGE.

THE BOOK OF GOLD.

A BUST IN CLAY.

THE WHITE LILY.

AWAKE IN DARKNESS.

THE CHILD IN THE STREET.

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THE BRONZE STATUE—APRIL, 1861.

A SABBATH IN JULY.

THE NESTS AT WASHINGTON.

SONNET—IN 1862.

THE BALLAD OF A ROSE.

THE OPEN SLAVE-PEN.

THE DEAR PRESIDENT.

THE UNBENDED BOW.

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FOOTSTEPS RETURNING

RIDING THE HORSE TO MARKET.

THE FIRST TRYST.

THE BURIED ORGAN.

MELANCHOLY.

THE DESERTED SMITHY.

THE BIRDS OF LONGING.

STEPS OF GHOSTS.

THE STRANGE ORGANIST.

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MELANCHOLY.

Where'er I laugh a buried echo sighs;
Some coffin full of ashes
Uplifts its dead; a sea-deep sorrow lies
Under a wave that flashes.

I know not why this moan steals into May,
To make its joy so hollow;
Some woful hearse keeps hushing through the day—
My thoughts, dark mourners, follow.