“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold..”

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‘To My Dear and Loving Husband’
BY ANNE BRADSTREET

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.

[Photograph by Rustu Bozkus]