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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Peet [1]
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Date: 2023-08-11
To A Bride
Mary Toles Peet (1836-1901)
Thou askest, O my friend, a song to-day;
But what soft note, what subtle melody
Can thy young heart’s delicious joy convey?
In Life’s enchanted lyre, one chord alone
Can thrill thee with a music all its own,
And fill thine heart with one most perfect tone.
What need, then, hast thou that I sing to thee?
June roses for thy bridal, fair to see,
Are sweeter music than my notes can be;
And song-birds flitting thro’ the fragrant air,
And stars that gleam, like living eyes, from where
Thine own turn softly in thy troth-plight prayer.
Then silence, sweeter than all varied sound,
Shall fold thee soft, like loving arms around,
For life’s most perfect gift thy heart hath found.
[both Peet and the bride to whom this is addressed were deaf]
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on July 16, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.
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