A World of Windows and Other Poems

Behind my house are windows, each lit with yellow flame, and each one is a little world set in a little frame. This is the beautiful first stanza of the opening poem in this collection of poems by Charles Hanson Towne. Towne was the toast of late 19th century New York, a chief contributor and eventually editor of distinguished magazines and periodicals such as Harpers Bazaar, The New Yorker and The American.