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John James Piatt

1835–1917

John James Piatt (1835–1917) was an American poet born in Indiana and raised in Ohio. With William Dean Howells he published Poems of Two Friends (1860), and he worked as a journalist and government clerk in Washington before serving as United States consul at Cork, Ireland.

He was married to the poet Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, and several of their volumes of verse appeared under both names.

Poems (14)

  1. Apart
  2. The Dear President
  3. The Mower in Ohio
  4. Rose and Root
  5. To Abraham Lincoln
  6. Farther
  7. The Child in the Street
  8. To a Lady
  9. The Guerdon
  10. Torch-Light in Autumn
  11. Ireland
  12. Leaves at My Window
  13. The Lost Genius
  14. Purpose

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