Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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First Line: Trusty, dusky, vivid, true
Last Line: Gave to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): To My Wife
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology


TRUSTY, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.

Honour, anger, valour, fire;
A love that life could never tire,
Death quench or evil stir,
The mighty master
Gave to her.

Teacher, tender, comrade, wife,
A fellow-farer true through life,
Heart-whole and soul-free
The august father
Gave to me.





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