Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MY WIFE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: Who else, dear eyes of brown, could know or dream
Last Line: To think how suddenly life's partings come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


WHO else, dear eyes of brown, could know or dream
Our thousand foolish tender little ways?
Absurdities and trifles though they seem,
They are the salt and savor of our days!
They are too quaint and too ridiculous
To name them here, or publicly explain;
For what is deep significance to us
Would, to the general, prove quite insane!
And I, who must be prim ten hours a day
And talk choplogic, and seem wise, severe --
How blithely do I cast pretence away
And whisper sheerest moonshine in your ear!
Your laughter is so sweet, it strikes me dumb
To think how suddenly life's partings come.





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