<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589515" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Woman and the Wife</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I--THE EXPLANATION</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong.<br>This we can say, the rest we do not say;<br>Nor do I let you throw yourself away<br>Because you love me. Let us both be strong,<br>And we shall find in sorrow, before long,<br>Only the price Love ruled that we should pay:<br>The dark is the end of every day,<br>And silence is the end of every song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"You ask me for one more proof that I speak right,<br>But I can answer only what I know;<br>You look for just one lie to make black white,<br>But I can tell you only what is true--<br>God never made me for the wife of you.<br>This we can say,--believe me! . . . Tell me so!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II--THE ANNIVERSARY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Give me the truth, whatever it may be.<br>You thought we knew, but now tell me what you miss:<br>You are the one to tell me what it is--<br>You are a man, and you have married me.<br>What is it worth to-night that you can see<br>More marriage in the dream of one dead kiss<br>Than in a thousand years of life like this?<br>Passion has turned the lock. Pride keeps the key.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Whatever I have said or left unsaid,<br>Whatever I have done or left undone,--<br>Tell me. Tell me the truth . . . Are you afraid?<br>Do you think that Love was ever fed with lies<br>But hunger lived thereafter in his eyes?<br>Do you ask me to take moonlight for the sun?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Arlington+Robinson">Edwin Arlington Robinson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589515" data-title="The Woman and the Wife de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="I--THE EXPLANATION/"You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong./This we can say, the rest we do not say;/Nor do I let you throw yourself away/Because you love me. Let us both be strong,/And we shall find in sorrow, before long,/Only the pr..."></div> </div> </div>

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