Rivermerchant 1

The River Merchant's Wife

  • Two Small People

    The two people in the first stanza are very young still "Two Small people, without dislike or suspicion." The two see each other as children.
  • At Fourteen....

    The two people get married at fourteen years old. And she was so shy, "I never laughed, being bashful. Lowering my head I looked at the wall.