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Brewer's: Alruna-wife

(An) The Alrunes were the lares or penates of the ancient Germans. An Alruna-wife was the household goddess of a German family. An Alruna-maiden is a household maiden goddess. “She (…

Brewer's: Fish-wife

(A.) A woman who hawks fish about the streets. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Fish and FleshFish-day A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…

The Rich Man's Wife

Director/Writer: Amy Holden Jones Director of Photography: Haskell Wexler Editor: Wendy Grene Bricmont Music: John Frizzell Production Designer: Jeannine Oppewall Producers…

The River Merchants Wife: A Letter

The River Merchants Wife: A LetterWhile my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Played I about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You…

Robert Frost: The Hill Wife

The Hill WifeRobert FrostLoneliness(Her Word)One ought not to have to care So much as you and I Care when the birds come round the house To seem to say good-bye;Or care so much when…

Christina Rossetti: Wife to Husband

Wife to HusbandPardon the faults in me, For the love of years ago: Good-bye. I must drift across the sea, I must sink into the snow, I must die.You can bask in this sun, You can…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Wife

by EmilyDickinsonApocalypseApotheosisThe Wife The Wife She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. If aught she…

husband and wife

(Encyclopedia) husband and wife, the legal aspects of the married state (for the sociological aspects, see marriage). The former Anglo-American law of marriage was chiefly characterized by the view…

Richard Le Gallienne: The Wife from Fairyland

The Wife from FairylandRichard Le GallienneHer talk was all of woodland things, Of little lives that pass Away in one green afternoon, Deep in the haunted grass;For she had come from…