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Listen to a Poem by Anne Bradstreet
Click the link below to listen to a native speaker from London, England reading a poem about love and marriage by Anne Bradstreet. You can also read the poem as you listen. Back to English accents or English Poetry.
Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband
To My Dear
and Loving Husband
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved 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 that 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 recompense.
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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