The Poetry Corner

The Song Maker

By Sara Teasdale

I made a hundred little songs That told the joy and pain of love, And sang them blithely, tho' I knew No whit thereof. I was a weaver deaf and blind; A miracle was wrought for me, But I have lost my skill to weave Since I can see. For while I sang, ah swift and strange! Love passed and touched me on the brow, And I who made so many songs Am silent now.