| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1666. Sonnet in a Garden |
| | | By Josephine Preston Peabody |
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| DUMB Mother of all music, let me rest | |
| On thy great heart while summer days pass by; | |
| While all the heat up-quivers, let me lie | |
| Close gathered to the fragrance of thy breast. | |
| Let not the pipe of birds from some high nest | 5 |
| Give voice unto a thought of melody, | |
| Nor dreaming clouds afloat along the sky | |
| Meet any wind of promise from the west. | |
| Save for that grassy breath that never mars | |
| The peace, but seems a musing of thine own, | 10 |
| Keep thy dear silence. So, embraced, alone, | |
| Forgetful of relentless prison-bars, | |
| My soul shall hear all songs, unsung, unknown, | |
| Uprising with the breath of all the stars. | |
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