She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah

A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment

My head, my heart, mine Eyes, my life, nay more,
My joy, my Magazine of earthly store,
If two be one, as surely thou and I,
How stayest thou there, whilst I at Ipswich lye?
So many steps, head from the heart to sever
If but a neck, soon should we be together:
I like the earth this season, mourn in black,
My Sun is gone so far in’s Zodiack,
Whom whilst I ’joy’d, nor storms, nor frosts I felt,
His warmth such frigid colds did cause to melt.
My chilled limbs now nummed lye forlorn;
Return, return sweet Sol from Capricorn;
In this dead time, alas, what can I more
Then view those fruits which through thy heat I bore?
Which sweet contentment yield me for a space,
True living Pictures of their Fathers face.
O strange effect! now thou art Southward gone,
I weary grow, the tedious day so long;
But when thou Northward to me shalt return,
I wish my Sun may never set, but burn
Within the Cancer of my glowing breast,
The welcome house of him my dearest guest.
Where ever, ever stay, and go not thence,
Till natures sad decree shall call thee hence;
Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone,
I here, thou there, yet both but one.

This poem, also by Anne Bradstreet, is very similar to To My Dear Loving Husband in the way it portrays unity in marriage. Marriage is a sacred bond ordained by God in which a man and a woman come together as one flesh in order to bring glory to God and represent Christ's relationship to the church. But what is Christ's relationship to the Church? Simple look at Ephesians 5:22-23

"21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 

Christ is the head of the Church, and so the Church submits to Christs authority. However, Christs love for the Church is a true sacrificial love, He gave himself up so that the Church could be holy and blameless before God the Father. In this same way, a wife should find comfort in her husband, who should in turn be willing to give his life for her protection. In this way, the husband loves his wife as much (if not more) than himself making them essentially one and the same. These two poems emphasize the idea that Bradstreet considers herself and her husband in a unity. However, this poem shows that Anne looks to her husband for comfort because she trusts him to fulfill his role of protection. So, all in all, the point of this post is for me to say that Simon Bradstreet scored big time. He found himself a women who understands her heavenly role and his ready and willing to help him glorify God by submitting to him and holding him accountable. He's lucky that he found a faithful women who is waiting for him to return from a hard days night. This is why I don't care too much for money, cause money can't buy me that kind of love.