Social Commentaries

On a deaf man and his blind wife

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1

Social Commentaries

The husband's deaf, the wife cann't see a wink
She's ears to him' and now he's eies to her:
Which hath the happier time on't do you think?
He; since her parlous tongue he cannot hear,
Her noise 'tis thought deaft him; howe'r it be,
Happy is that loss that made them thus agree.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “On a deaf man and his blind wife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/120/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “On a deaf man and his blind wife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/120/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Robert Heath