| Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - American poetry - 1918 - 750 pages
...cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, 9 The heavens reward thee manifold I pray. Then while we live, in love lets .so persever, That when we live no more, we may live ever. A Letter to her Husband, absent upon... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay ; The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. 10 Then when we live, in love let's so persever That when we live no more, we may live ever. ANOTHER Phoebus, make haste; the day's too long; be gone; The silent night's the fittest time for moan.... | |
| Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...returning after expulsion. Oct. 1659-March 1661. Four executions To My Dear and Loving Husband, c. 1660 If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man...manifold I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere, That when we live no more, we may live ever. Connecticut Code, 1650 If any man have a stubborn... | |
| Raymond W. Gibbs - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 544 pages
...following poem titled "To My Dear and Loving Husband," by the 17th-century American poet Anne Bradstreet: If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man...manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever. This poem manifests a number of metaphorical... | |
| Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker - History - 1993 - 518 pages
...gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor aught but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such...love let's so persever, That when we live no more, we mav live ever. * Before the Birth of One of Her Children All things within this fading world hath end,... | |
| Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...doth hold. My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward...manifold I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persever,1 That when we live no more, we may 'ive ever. A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Publick... | |
| Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...hearse; And kiss this paper for thy love's dear sake, Who with salt tears this last farewell did take. TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND If ever two were one,...manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever. THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK Thou ill-formed offspring... | |
| Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...doth hold. My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay. The heavens reward...persever, That when we live no more, we may live ever. A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment As loving Hind that (Hartless) wants her Deer,... | |
| Kenneth Koch - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...bringing in the whole universe at once is dramatic and grand. ANNE BRADSTREET AMERICAN (1612?-1672) To My Dear and Loving Husband If ever two were one,...manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever. These neat, concise couplets contain surprises... | |
| Eric Murphy Selinger - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 274 pages
...biblical pretexts, and her supple juxtapositions of levels of love. Here is the poem in its entirety: If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man...manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever."2 Two lines shy of a sonnet, but shy in no other... | |
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