I would be married, but I’d have no wife,
I would be married to a single life.
I would be married to a single life.

1613 - 1649/Male/EnglishRichard Crashaw, English poet, styled "the divine," was part of the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical School of poets.
View profile & all 14 Poems / Stories(As she is usually expressed with a Seraphim beside her.)Well meaning readers! you that come as friends
Love, thou are absolute sole lordOf life and death. To prove the word,
To these whom death again did wedThis grave ’s the second marriage-bed.
Come and let us live my Dear,Let us love and never fear,
Chorus.Come we shepherds who have seenDay’s king deposed by Night’s queen.