Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
A Pitcher of Mignonette
By Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896)[From Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere. 1884.]
Triolet.
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In a tenement’s highest casement:
Queer sort of flower-pot—yet
That pitcher of mignonette
Is a garden in heaven set,
To the little sick child in the basement—
The pitcher of mignonette,
In the tenement’s highest casement.