Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MY WIFE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Two clouds that float together all the day
Last Line: Points out the lights and open doors of home!
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


Two clouds that float together all the day
Along the sunny courses of the sky,
Will sadly part, as day's enchantments die,
And perish in the twilight's common gray.
Two rivulets, that find a wedded way,
And carol many a shining landscape by,
Descend at last where nameless waters lie
Beneath the ocean's all-dissolving sway.
Not such, dear wife, dear lover, is the goal
That waits for us upon our final breath, --
Two bubbles, crushed within a swirl of foam;
But like two pilgrims, worn of sense and soul,
How happy we shall be when kindly Death
Points out the lights and open doors of home!





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