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Read & copy
“If ever two were one, then surely we.”
Meaning & context
Bradstreet opens with a compact assertion of marital unity, setting up a poem that measures the value of mutual love against material wealth and even mortality.
Source details
“To My Dear and Loving Husband,” posthumously published in the 1678 second edition of Several Poems; represented by Representative Poetry Online. The poem is a Puritan-era personal love lyric with explicitly religious closing language.