"To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet 1910
Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee threefold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persever, That when we live no more, we may live ever.
Anne Bradstreet’s Puritan idea that marriage is a gift from God comes over clearly in ‘To My Dear and Loving Husband.’ Reading it from a modern lens, it’s easy to start the poem feeling a little dubious; but, Bradstreet’s real thankfulness and loyalty to her husband eventually manifests to make it a very affecting expression of true love.
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