TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND
by: Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)
- F ever
two were one, then surely we.
- If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.
- If ever wife was happy in a man,
- Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
- I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold
- Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
- My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
- Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.
- Thy love is such I can no way repay.
- The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
- Then while we live, in love let's so persever
- That when we live no more, we may live ever.
"To my Dear and Loving Husband"
is reprinted from Several Poems. Anne Bradstreet. Boston:
John Foster, 1678. |
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