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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BRIDES Matches Found: 117 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BRIDE, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bridegroom none but death alone Last Line: Lit the dead her downward way. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Brides A BRIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I am weary!' she sighed, as her billowy Last Line: To kneel in dumb agony down and weep near her! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness A BRIDE SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the vales to my love Last Line: O my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Wedding Song; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A CONJUGAL CONUNDRUM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "which is of greater value, prythee say" Last Line: The bridegroom's often regularly sold Subject(s): Brides;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives A MARRIAGE BETWIXT SCRAPE ... AND BLOBBERLIPS ..., SELS, by ALEXANDER PENNECUIK Poem Text First Line: Below fair peebles, on the river's side Last Line: There they lie.' Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Brides; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MILKING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet st. Bride of the yellow, yellow hair Last Line: Briget, bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Kye-song Of St. Bride Subject(s): Brides; Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Faith; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Saints; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Belief; Creed; Saul Of Tarsus A TRILOGY: FLAME, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: Your negligee. The curtained room Last Line: But a bedroom of satiety. Subject(s): Brides; Desire; Kisses; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANGRY BRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Six crock bowls the bride smashed Last Line: The balance would seem quite fair Subject(s): Anger; Brides AT A WEDDING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You drive up to the country club Last Line: To the soprano of the crystal Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song BALLAD OF THE BELLS, SELECTION, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ah! What joy, the bagpipe and the flute touch our hearts Last Line: Then in quaint pattern guarded them from sight. Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BARBED-WIRE WINTER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: --boy! Last Line: Knows why. %and then the long life began Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Clergy; Love; Marriage BASE METAL, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Troth might be split passed %between two sets %of lips in the first teen kiss Last Line: To himself or to the thousands, acting out %a sexual riff on love Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Single People BEAUTY (1), by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough Last Line: Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now. Variant Title(s): One Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 1;a Young Bride (1) Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY (2), by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the wild hyacinth flower, which on the hills is found Last Line: Until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground. Variant Title(s): A Young Bride (2);one Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 2 Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDAL BLOSSOMS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing by the bridegroom's side Last Line: All that taints thy purity. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Virginity; Vestals BRIDE, by CAROL FRITH Poem Source First Line: She is vaulted with a vengeance Last Line: Into froth, %she recoils Subject(s): Brides BRIDE, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book was dull, its pictures Last Line: Who wrestles with the ages %to give the world a bride Subject(s): Brides; Marriage BRIDE, by MAINA WA KINYATTI Poem Source First Line: The smell of the toilet bucket was sharp Last Line: I could not sleep for a long time Subject(s): Brides; Prisons And Prisoners BRIDE, by AINA KRAUJIETE Poem Source First Line: She didn't know whether to weep Subject(s): Brides BRIDE, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bride leaves her father's house Subject(s): Brides BRIDE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem sits on her mountains, a woman Last Line: Heavy because so angry %so angry Subject(s): Brides BRIDE, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: My circle is narrow and the ring of my thoughts Last Line: Narrow is my circle and the ring of my thoughts %fits round my finger Subject(s): Brides BRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It hath passed, my daughter; fare thee well! Subject(s): Brides BRIDE ONE SUMMER EVENING, by SARAH SCHNEEWIND Poem Source First Line: Waiting for the grind of tires, barefoot Last Line: He said that whippoorwill could whoop all night Subject(s): Brides; Summer BRIDE'S NIGHT IN A STRANGE VILLAGE, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At three in the morning Last Line: In her like mirrors %the length of the rainy village Variant Title(s): The Bride's Nights In A Strange Villag Subject(s): Brides BRIDE'S SONG AGAINST DEMONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: High on a pillow sits with bandaged hands & feet her double sits beside her Last Line: The custom of the girls Subject(s): Brides;jews - Women;mysticism - Judaism BRIDES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down the assembly line they roll and pass Last Line: Swings towards the future, purring with a sweet %concatenation of the poppet heads Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Brides BRIDES, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: They must vanish of course Last Line: Over their delicate motions. Subject(s): Brides; Sea; Youth CID'S WEDDING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within his hall of burgos the king prepares the feast Last Line: Than utter words so meaningless as she did when she spoke Subject(s): Brides; Cid, El (1043-1099); Love; Marriage CID: PART 9, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God grant, who all Last Line: Accounted a traitor Subject(s): Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Brides; Cid, El (1043-1099); Marriage CIVIL MARRIAGE, by CECILIA BUSTAMANTE Poem Source First Line: At the ceremonies %people gathered Last Line: Like rare flowers %with their roots in reverse Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Marriage COME, MY BELOVED, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: Come, my beloved, to meet the bride Last Line: With joy receive the sabbath bride. Subject(s): Brides; Jews; Love - Marital; Sabbath; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Sunday DEAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I hearken at your grave Last Line: By that road. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The EARL RODERICK'S BRIDE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It was the black earl roderick Last Line: She did become that day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Brides EASTER BRIDAL SONG, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haste, little fingers, haste, haste Last Line: And bring the flowers so early! Subject(s): Brides; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection ELEGY ON A LADY, WHOM GRIEF FOR THE DEATH OF HER BETHROTHED KILLED, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assemble, all ye maidens, at the door Last Line: Rejoice, for thou art near to thy possession. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dead, The EVE'S BLOOD, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hides many treasures in its deeps Last Line: The blood of that eve of the early woods. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brides; Nature; Nudity; Nakedness GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She struck all of us city brides Last Line: Our lips and practiced the dare to be taken Subject(s): Brides; Women GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To field and forest Last Line: The rapture of song! Subject(s): Brides; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Spring; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HEIGH-HO!, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty young maiden sat on the grass Last Line: Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Brides; Courtship; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HER MARRIAGE EVE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not wish thy liquid glance less bright Last Line: Ah! Not for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Brides I DIED FOR BEAUTY, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: What can be said Last Line: In the shallows just below %my pelvic hollow Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Skeletons IBADAN DAWN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mist-hung curtains, adrizzle-damp, draw, fall Last Line: Tumble in her flaming tan! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides IRIS, by CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Thou knowest not the parching Last Line: Beneath the rainbow rim! Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Iris (flower); Virginity; Vestals LA PETITE FIANCEE, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is washing her linen, her bridal lingerie Last Line: And think he has married a blossom of the pear. Subject(s): Brides LILIES IN THEIR ARMS, by HAZEL S. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: There will be brides in june-time; they will go Last Line: Remember brides are tender, fragile things. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Flowers; June; Lilies; Nightmares LOVERS' PLAY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: This morning my lady caught a mole Last Line: Astonished at the song Subject(s): Brides; Love - Beginnings; Marriage; Wedding Song MAMMON MARRIAGE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The croak of a raven hoar! Last Line: On the dead-sea-shore. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Marriage; Ravens; Skulls; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEARY WEDDED, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The zun can zink, the stars mid rise Last Line: That wer a-woo'd an' wedded. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement MY BRIDE, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My bride is a simple maiden Last Line: Is the name of this bride of mine. Subject(s): Brides; Love MY BROTHER, THE WEDDING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy walks me slowly past the guests and they rise Last Line: I don't recognize anyone Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Honeymoons; Wedding Song MY CRYSTAL BRIDE, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Out of the vision of night she has come Last Line: Shines in my holiest room. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; White (color); Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY GARDEN, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Text First Line: Two steps from my garden rail Last Line: Burst with envy and despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MY LITTLE SISTER: 28, by ABBA KOVNER Poem Source First Line: My sister sits happy Last Line: The marriage contract will be written in stone Subject(s): Brides; Sisters NOT THE COUNTING OF STRANGE HERBS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Or tanks rolling onto the streets Last Line: Who is recording this? Who else %is in charge Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Marriage ORTHODOXIES 3, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: What it is saying, I wonder, the purl and stitch scarf of Last Line: Face painting of a virgin bride melts away to the depths of a metamorphosis Subject(s): Brides; Innocence; Paintings And Painters; Virginity PEPPERING BELL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At burpham church, the only bell Last Line: A better belle is going! Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage PICTURE BRIDE, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was a year younger Last Line: Filling with the dry wind %that blew from the surrounding fields %where the men were burning the can Subject(s): Brides POSEIDON'S BRIDE, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: Poseidon comes riding, riding, riding, over the ocean to me Last Line: Come with poseidon for me. Subject(s): Atlantis; Brides; Mythology - Classical; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean QUESTION FOR THE BRIDE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that everything seems so persuasive Subject(s): Brides RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the belfry, one by one, went the ringers from the sun Last Line: Round our restlessness, his rest. Subject(s): Courtship; Loyalty; Brides ROOM 301, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: Clip-clop. That's how %a life ends Subject(s): Brides; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of ROSY APPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rosy apple, lemon, or pear" Last Line: Mother's runaway daughter Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Brides;holidays;valentine's Day SEA LAVENDER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lavender, sea lavender! Last Line: That my hands still hold her hands. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium SECOND HONEYMOON, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect cone shell lay on live coral twenty yards from shore Last Line: The way, come to think of it, my first wife and I %stripped each other of love, then followed our no Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Honeymoons; Love - Marital SELLA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a legend of the days of old Last Line: The stone engraved with sella's honored name. Subject(s): Shoes; Mothers; Brides; Travel; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Journeys; Trips SPIRIT BRIDAL, by JESSIE STORRS FERRIS Poem Text First Line: She sleeps within a sheltered marbled close Last Line: Beneath the moon to-night? Subject(s): Brides; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy TAKING THE BRIDE HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll go not alone, my sweetheart dear! Last Line: The night-wind pipes the melody. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE BRIDAL DAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bride! Upon thy marriage-day Last Line: "comfort 'midst our tears for thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dead, The THE BRIDAL GIFT, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at the fair I met light-footed polly Last Line: As rosy the posy — la, no! Subject(s): Brides; Gifts & Giving; Women THE BRIDAL HOUR, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's gray tent is up; another hour Last Line: "in the low soil of time!" Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had been wandering for many days Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song. Variant Title(s): The White Mountains Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE BRIDAL VEIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're married, they say, and you think Last Line: Of bliss that can never be written or spoken. Subject(s): Brides; Love; Marriage; Peace; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lady at the altar Last Line: Love shall bring you to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will seem different some day Last Line: She shall be mother of thy son. Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bride leaves her father's house Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem sits on her mountains, a woman Last Line: Heavy because so angry, / so angry Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came, but she was gone Last Line: May stamp the sentence of eternity. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dead, The THE BRIDE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in white and silver Last Line: The red red roses grew. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Flowers; Love; Roses THE BRIDE, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the trim tapers burn exceeding brightly Last Line: And witchcrafts trance her wheresoe'er she turn. Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE AND THE MATRON, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, my love, o my love and my love Last Line: But what good would it do? Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs. Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE ELECT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When god created man Last Line: Flesh of his flesh -- a virgin bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE IN WHITE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is customary to conceive Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE OF MALLOW, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas dying they thought her Last Line: Not as happy as theirs. Subject(s): Brides THE BRIDE OF THE GREEK ISLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come from the woods with the citron-flowers Last Line: In the sudden flow of a plaintive lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brides; Greece; Women; Greeks THE BRIDE'S DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are gleaming Last Line: Through paths of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Pain; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I weep? - to leave the vine Last Line: Now the light gathers o'er youth and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brides; Farewell; Parting THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind wears roun', the day wears doun Last Line: Blaws the wind and whirls the whin. Subject(s): Brides; Tragedy; Wind THE COLLIER'S WEDDING, SELECTION, by EDWARD CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: At last the beef appears in sight Last Line: So, curtseying, mumbled up his kiss. Subject(s): Brides; Dancing & Dancers; Food & Eating; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE COSSACK'S BRIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From the island's sheltered harbor Last Line: Like the pageant of a dream Subject(s): Brides THE DEAD BRIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my circled arm she lay and Last Line: But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEAD BRIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she lay so still and pale Last Line: Death hath found her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Death; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Paradise THE HEBREW'S FRIDAY NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'come, my beloved, to meet the bride; the face" Last Line: The sweet humanities which make our higher life Subject(s): Brides;jews;love - Marital;sabbath; Judaism;wedded Love;marriage - Love;sunday THE HOMECOMING OF THE BRIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sarah greenleaf, of eighteen years Last Line: On the barn floor pealed the smiting flail. Subject(s): Brides; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE LAY OF THE BROWN ROSARY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Onora, onora,' - her mother is calling Last Line: O reader, breathe (the ballad saith) some sweetness out of each! Subject(s): Brides; Rosary; Sin THE LIFE OF TOWNS: BRIDE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging on the daylight black Last Line: Noon the demander was waiting for me Subject(s): Brides THE MIST, by IDA SHERWIN OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Yonder from the mountain side Last Line: If this were all—the mist and I. Subject(s): Brides; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE POINT OF VIEW, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: You think it noblest to refrain Last Line: The bridegroom's pearls? Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE VICTIM; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gallic bard the touching tale has told Last Line: "thou art the first to say a word to me!" Subject(s): Brides THE WARRIOR TO HIS DEAD BRIDE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in the fight my arm was strong Last Line: I have an angel there! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Brides; Death; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS 28: NO. 3), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple boughs lie in the eaves Last Line: And a bride girl peered at her from the floor. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THERE HE GOES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, little bride, do brush aside those Last Line: If now and then he leaves you for his club! Subject(s): Brides; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF HYDE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And they said, 'would we'd never left hyde!' Subject(s): Brides; Love - Beginnings THROUGH THE NIGHT, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: One hope have I-one prayer both night and day Last Line: Take her. She is for evermore thy bride.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A BRIDE, FEB. 17, 1846, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still, serene, soft day; enough of sun Last Line: Love can prolong it in despite of years. Subject(s): Brides TO A CHINESE BRIDE, by VIRGINIA CONNETT Poem Text First Line: You are the shadow of tall bamboo Last Line: I await your palanquin by the wall of the blue pagoda. Subject(s): Brides; China TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot. Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery UNDER A BLUE MOON, OXFORD, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Introduced by letter as 'relatives' Last Line: We're here till new year's, looking for certain signs Subject(s): Brides; Honeymoons; Marriage WEDDED, BUT NOT MATED, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wedding bells and death-knells Last Line: The bells have ceased to swing. Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Marriage; Wedding Song; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium WEDDING CAKE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a plane Last Line: Was funnier than the whole arm. Subject(s): Babies; Brides; Clothing & Dress; Marriage; White (color); Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING FEAST, by AMY BOWER Poem Text First Line: Just one more bride has passed before Last Line: Blessed the bride in her silks and laces. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHEELCHAIR REPAIRMAN'S BRIDE IMAGINES HER FIRST NIGHT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She wonders if she'll straddle him Last Line: The upper and lower worlds; their skin igniting Subject(s): Brides; Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Travel WHITE SACRIFICE, by MILDRED CARTWRIGHT JOBSON Poem Text First Line: Not to the distant star that presses white Last Line: Yielding oblations to unworthy gods. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Stars WHO SITS WITH THE KING IN HIS THRONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who sits with the king in his bride Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Courts & Courtiers YOU HAVE TO BEGIN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Still felt or is it %(not less) %remembered Subject(s): Arabs; Brides; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine YOUNG FATE, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harmonious me, disparate from a dream Last Line: And burns in the somber goal of my yawning marble. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Fate; Nightmares; Destiny |
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