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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Meynell [1]

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Date: 2023-04-07  

To A Daisy

by Alice Meynell (1847-1922)

Slight as thou art, thou art enough to hide,

Like all created things, secrets from me,

And stand a barrier to eternity.

And I, how can I praise thee well and wide

From where I dwell—upon the hither side?

Thou little veil for so great mystery,

When shall I penetrate all things and thee,

And then look back? For this I must abide,

Till thou shalt grow and fold and be unfurled

Literally between me and the world.

Then shall I drink from in beneath a spring,

And from a poet’s side shall read his book.

O daisy mine, what will it be to look

From God’s side even of such a simple thing?

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on March 25, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

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