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Western windows and other poems
Piatt, John James (1835-1917)
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DEDICATION.
WESTERN WINDOWS.
SUNSHINE AND FIRELIGHT.
ROSE AND ROOT.
HIGHER TENANTS.
NEW GRASS.
OUTGOING.
THE BLACKBERRY FARM.
THE MORNING STREET.
THE LOST HORIZON.
ANTAEUS.
ONE OF TWO.
THE OLD MAN AND THE SPRING-LEAVES.
THE MASTER-KEY.
PARTING.
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
AT EVENING.
THE UNHEARD BELL.
THE DARK STREET.
QUATRAINS.
THE GOLDEN HAND.
THE GRAVE-ANGEL.
THE BURIED RING.
AT CHRISTMAS EVE.
SUNDOWN.
WHITE FROST.
PASSENGERS.
FORESIGHT OF FATE.
TO ONE IN A DARKENED HOUSE.
THE BIRTHDAYS.
TO GRACE AT CHRISTMAS.
THE LAST FIRE.
TO MY BROTHER GUY,
RESURRECTION.
MOONRISE.
TO A CHILD.
THE BLUE-BIRD'S BURIAL.
SLEEP.
FROST ON THE PANES.
TO THE LARES.
FOR A GRAVESTONE.
THE SIGHT OF ANGELS.
SONNETS.
FIVE YEARS.
FOOTSTEPS RETURNING
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FOR A GRAVESTONE.
The
marble has no speech but that we give,
And we are dumb, and, speechless, pass away;
The silence in which our affections live
Holds all we need to speak and can not say.
Western windows and other poems
