Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WIFE'S POEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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THE WIFE'S POEM, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My works, dear poet wife, are set
Last Line: To time's remotest, fairest shelf!
Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


My works, dear poet wife, are set
In squares of awkward alphabet;
But yours in curves of living grace,
From dancing feet to happy face:
For though my verse were beauty's pearl,
Your poem is a little girl!

Stiff-penned I picture love's dear bliss;
Your poem thrills me with a kiss.
I write of music -- lame and long;
Your poem is a living song.
My verses ape a clumsy wit;
In lines of laughter yours are writ.

What patient days and weary nights,
What fears, what hopes, and what delights
You pack into your poem, dear,
With loving toil of year by year;
While I -- a scrawling page or two,
A headache, and the thing will do!

My dullard, barren verses fall
Expiring to the old-book stall;
While your sweet poem, age on age,
Reprinted in a wider page,
Will bear the image of yourself
To Time's remotest, fairest shelf!





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