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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.
THE BRONZE STATUE—APRIL, 1861.
HONORS OF WAR.
A SABBATH IN JULY.
THE NESTS AT WASHINGTON.
SONNET—IN 1862.
THE BALLAD OF A ROSE.
THE OPEN SLAVE-PEN.
THE DEAR PRESIDENT.
TO R. C. S.
THE UNBENDED BOW.
FOOTSTEPS RETURNING
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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