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Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

1836–1919


Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919), also known as Sallie M. Bryan, was an American poet from Kentucky. She published hundreds of poems in newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and eighteen volumes of verse, two of them written jointly with her husband, the poet John James Piatt.

Her work was widely read and reviewed in the United States and Europe in her lifetime. Her poems, often dramatic monologues spoken by mothers and children, were collected in volumes such as A Woman's Poems (1871) and That New World (1876).

  1. After Wings
  2. My Babes in the Wood
  3. The Witch in the Glass
  4. Tradition of Conquest
  5. The Watch of a Swan
  6. In Clonmel Parish Churchyard
  7. A Call on Sir Walter Raleigh
  8. An Irish Wild-Flower
  9. Transfigured
  10. The Term of Death
  11. Envoy
  12. Into the World and Out

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