Embeytey – My Queen

A song in Tigrigna

In this song, the singer praises his wife: How wonderful she is and how blessed he feels to have her in his life. The music reflects the traditional role of a wife in Ethiopia. Embeytey in Tigrigna means you are my queen, my everything.

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To My Wife
by Oscar Wilde

I can write no stately proem
As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
I would dare to say.

For if of these fallen petals
One to you seem fair,
Love will waft it till it settles
On your hair.

And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.

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Marriage can bring happiness but sometimes it can be difficult.