Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (Sallie M. Bryan; August 11, 1836 – December 22, 1919) was an American poet. Sometimes publishing under "Sallie M. Bryan", she was a prolific and popular poet during her lifetime, associating with prominent literary figures in the United States and abroad. During her career, she published some 450 poems across eighteen volumes and in leading periodicals of the day.

“My mother says I must not passToo near the glass;She is afraid that I will seeA little witch that looks like me;With a red, red mouth to whisper low,The very thing I should not know!”