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Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear And Loving Husband

If 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.

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To My Dear And Loving Husband - Comments and Information

Poet: Anne Bradstreet
Poem: To My Dear And Loving Husband
Year: Published/Written in 1678

Comment 16 of 16, added on April 29th, 2007 at 11:12 AM.

This beautifully written poem I believe that introduces the love theme in puritan america of the time.I find pretty strange the fact that a woman of her time could express her most intimate feelings so widely open especially when she knew that the puritan community in which she belonged would read it.

Despina from Greece
Comment 15 of 16, added on February 7th, 2007 at 4:20 PM.

omg i love this poem it is beutiful!!!!!!!!

bouncy from United States
Comment 14 of 16, added on January 31st, 2007 at 12:16 PM.

hello,i've thoroughly read this poem a couple of times,until i could fully undertand it.and i've learnt that love is beautiful,although it brings tears,and it bring smiles,it's worth the lesson to learn to love..this is beautiful.
MRS. KEIRA P

takeira proctor from United States

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