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Western windows and other poems
Piatt, John James (1835-1917)
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DEDICATION.
WESTERN WINDOWS.
SUNSHINE AND FIRELIGHT.
SONNETS.
FIVE YEARS.
FOOTSTEPS RETURNING
RIDING THE HORSE TO MARKET.
THE FIRST TRYST.
THE BURIED ORGAN.
TWO PATRONS.
GENIUS LOCI.
APART.
AFTER A WHILE.
‘To ---.”
MELANCHOLY.
FOLDED DOWN.
CONFIDANTS.
THE DESERTED SMITHY.
FALLEN LEAVES.
AN ECHO.
IN OCTOBER.
THE BIRDS OF LONGING.
MOTHS.
STEPS OF GHOSTS.
THE STRANGE ORGANIST.
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AN ECHO.
“
Come
back,” I sigh'd—
The flower
I dropp'd upon the tide
Was vanish'd many an hour.
“Come back,” the Echo sigh'd
“Come back,” I cried—
The love,
Flower-like I cast aside,
An angel bears above.
“Come back,” the Echo cried.
Western windows and other poems