Poems to Read to Your Wife of Many Years

These poems are from the Society of Classical Poets, founded by Evan Mantyk. The Society is dedicated to reviving traditional poetry.

A detail from a 17th-century painting of a happy couple in a landscape, by Jan Miense Molenaer. Public Domain

‘A Precious Wife Is Like Fine Wine’

By Martin Rizley

A precious wife is like fine wine, made mellow with the years, Aged in a barrel made of smiles and laughter, sighs and tears. Though time may etch its lines upon her once unfurrowed face, Time’s passage makes her well-refined in every wifely grace.