Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: I. About Children | | The Witch in the Glass | | Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) |
| | | “MY mother says I must not pass | |
| Too near that glass; | |
| She is afraid that I will see | |
| A little witch that looks like me, | |
| With a red, red mouth, to whisper low | 5 |
| The very thing I should not know!” | |
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| Alack for all your mother’s care! | |
| A bird of the air, | |
| A wistful wind, or (I suppose | |
| Sent by some hapless boy) a rose | 10 |
| With breath too sweet, will whisper low | |
| The very thing you should not know! | | | | |
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