Arts & Sciences

Envoy

by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 1836–1919

From An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (1900)

Arts & Sciences

Sweet World, if you will hear me now:
I may not own a sounding Lyre
And wear my name upon my brow
Like some great jewel quick with fire.

But let me, singing, sit apart,
In tender quiet with a few,
And keep my fame upon my heart,
A little blush-rose wet with dew.

MLA

Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan. “Envoy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/piatt_sm/10/.

Chicago

Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan. “Envoy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/piatt_sm/10/.

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