We May Live Together
1650
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
Anne Bradstreet
Born: 8 March 1612, Northampton, UK
Nationality: English
Died: 16 September 1672, Massachusetts, USA
Bradstreet was a poet, and the most prominent of the early English poets of North America, and the first writer in England’s North American colonies. Bradstreet is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and is renowned for her large body of poetry and personal writings, mostly published posthumously
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