Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (August 11, 1836 – December 22, 1919) was an American poet.

Biography

Sarah Morgan Bryan was born in Lexington, Kentucky to Talbot Nelson Bryan and Mary Spiers. On June 18, 1861 she married John James Piatt, also a poet, as well as a federal employee who eventually served as an American Consul in Ireland. During her career, she published some 450 poems across fifteen volumes and in leading periodicals of the day. She died in Caldwell, New Jersey.

Literary works

• A Woman's Poems. 1871
• A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles. 1874
• That New World, & Other Poems. 1877
• Poems in Company with Children. 1877
• Dramatic Persons and Moods, With Other New Poems. 1880
• A Book About Baby. And Other Poems in Company with Children. 1882
• An Irish Garland. 1885
• In Primrose Time: a new Irish garland. 1886
• Mrs. Piatt's Select Poems. A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles and Other Poems. 1886
• Child's-World Ballads: Three Little Emigrants, a Romance of Cork Harbour, 1884, Etc. 1887
• The Witch in the Glass, Etc. 1888
• An Irish Wild-Flower, Etc. 1891
• An Enchanted Castle, and Other Poems: Pictures, Portraits and People in Ireland. 1893
• Poems. 1894
• Complete Poems 1894
• Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt. Ed. Paula Bernat Bennett. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Works in collaboration with her husband

• The Nests at Washington And Other Poems. 1864
• The Children Out-of-Doors A Book of Verses, by Two in One House. 1885

Works in collaboration with her husband and William Dean Howells

• The Hesperian Tree: An Annual of the Ohio Valley, 1903. 1903