International Love Poems
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Ankhsenpaaten

Pharaoh Akhenaten's Love for his Wife Neferfefruaten Nefertiti

 

ANKHSENPAATEN

She had been married to her Father, and then her Uncle, now she was
married to her half-brother Tutankhamen.  But this was a marriage between
two young people and two young people who seemed to be in love. Being
that Tutankhamen was so young when they married, they were able to spend
more time together, there are many charming pictures of the young couple
hunting, walking through the gardens, seemingly almost always together.

Found in Tutankhamen's tomb are the words written so long ago by a woman
for her lost love. ...

I am thy wife, O great one - do not leave me!
Is it thy good pleasure, O my brother,
That I should go far from thee?
How can it be that I go away alone?
I say:  "I accompany thee, O thou who didst like to converse with me,"
But thou remainest silent and speakest not!