Saturday, 27 April 2013

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.



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