Mother's Day Sonnet

"Sonnet to My Mother"

Title: "Sonnet to My Mother"
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Published: Boston, MA
Publish Date: July 7th, 1849
Poem in a nutshell: "You were the best mother-in-law ever"

Because I feel that, in the heavens above, 

    The angels, whispering to one another, 

Can find, among their burning terms of love, 

    None so devotional as that of 'mother' — 

Therefore by that sweet name I long have called you — 

    You, who are more than mother unto me, 

And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you, 

    In setting my Virginia's spirit free. 

My mother — my own mother — who died early — 

    Was but the mother of myself; but you 

Are mother to the one I loved so dearly, 

    And thus are dearer than the mother I knew;

By that infinity with which my wife 

Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.

For more information on this poem, please visit:

http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poef012.htm

http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/tomthra.htm

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