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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WEDDED LOVE Matches Found: 291 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness Last Line: Quite so emphatically! Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a singing bird Last Line: Is come, my love is come to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Variant Title(s): The Blessing Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A BLUE VALENTINE; FOR ALINE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsignore / right reverend bishop valentinus Last Line: "for wearing a blue gown." Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Holidays; Kilmer, Aline (1888-1941); Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A CHANGE OF VOICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I heard a lady near my door Last Line: Knowing the wretch has no more money? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A LEAP-YEAR EPISODE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I forget that winter night Last Line: The nellie who came to woo. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LETTER TO DAPHNIS, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This to the crown and blessing of my life Last Line: Would you but soon return, and speak it here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, make haste: the day's too long; be gone Last Line: By all our loves conjure him not to stay. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life - nay, more Last Line: I here, thou there, yet both but one. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A MARRIAGE RING, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ring, so worn as you behold Last Line: Worn with life's care, love yet was love. Variant Title(s): His Mother's Wedding-ring;his Late Wife's Wedding Ring Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PAVANE FOR THE NURSERY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Now touch the air softly Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A RECOLLECTION, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that I should be his bride Last Line: Which blesses every hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Love - Marital; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes A STANZA TO HIS WIFE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long be thy life! - and richly crowned! Last Line: May thy endearing virtues live! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A WEDDING MARCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clash your cymbals, maids, to-day Last Line: Shout aloud for cynthia! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium A WEDDING TOAST, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology A WOMAN AT HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Peace to his ashes! Last Line: But never a lover. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have all been in rooms Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE WEDDING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought we never should be rid of them! Last Line: To find our own past in their future there! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Daughters; Love - Marital; Marriage; Parents; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood AMORETTI: 65, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain Last Line: And spotlesse pleasure builds her sacred bowre. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To these, whom death again did wed Last Line: Whose day shall never die in night. Variant Title(s): Epitaph Upon A Young Married Couple Dead And Buryed Together Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPITHALAMION, OR MARRIAGE SONG .. LADY ELIZABETH AND COUNT PALATINE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haile bishop valentine, whose day this is Last Line: Till which houre, wee thy day enlarge, o valentine. Variant Title(s): An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song On Lady Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium ANY WIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows but you and I, my dear Last Line: Love by its pangs, love that endures for love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; God; Grief; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives APPLES OF GOLD IN A NETWORK OF SILVER (FOR A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: You have walked the trail together Last Line: Fifty years. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Gold; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a lovely maiden's foot Last Line: And their wild perfume. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations AT THE DINNER TABLE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat at dinner in my prime Last Line: In jest there fifty years before. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT THE OLD FARM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, 't is true. The blinds are closed, and the front Last Line: "that, before he went, he spoke to the ""dear wife"" tenderly." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love AT THE WEDDING MARCH, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God with honour hang your head Last Line: Deals triumph and immortal years. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism BALLAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the river so lately pass'd o'er Last Line: In a single grave repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802); Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BANGLE-SELLERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bangle-sellers are we who bear Last Line: And worships the gods at her husband's side. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love - Marital; Worship; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thunder woke me to the early dark, I lay awake listening Last Line: Even the barrier of a blessing. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fear; Lightning; Love - Marital; Lightning Rods; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE, by ANNE CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: We used to talk of so many things Last Line: Strange, is it not, that I love you more? Alternate Author Name(s): Stark, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things within this fading world hath end Last Line: Who with salt tears this last farewel did take. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mothers; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness CHOICE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the souls that stand create Last Line: To all the lists of clay! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 COMPLAINT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's gone. She was my love, my moon or more Last Line: And now lies down, who was my moon or more Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUPLE (FOR ISABEL ARCHER), by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You turn to the window, and whatever it was Last Line: We are left with mere afternoon, in a daze Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CRAZY MENU, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last of his toothpaste, last of his wheat chex, last Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Food & Eating; Grief; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love CUB LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I am thinking tonight of the sweethearts I had Last Line: The best in the world for my wife. Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Away: let nought to love displeasing Last Line: And I'll go wooing in my boys Subject(s): Family Life;happiness;love - Marital; Relatives;joy;delight;wedded Love;marriage - Love DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore ECLOGUE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jane sneed began it: my poor john, alas! Last Line: Beneath ground as above. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER, by KATHERINE DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day Last Line: My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come Alternate Author Name(s): Dyer, Catherine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mourning; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement EPITHALAMION, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye learned sisters which have oftentimes Last Line: And for short time an endlesse moniment. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION MADE AT LINCOLNES INNE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun-beames in the east are spread Last Line: To night puts on perfection, and a womans name. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EPITHALAMION: 3. RAYSING OF THE BRIDEGROOM, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though it be some divorce to thinke of you Last Line: The fire of thy inflaming eyes, and of thy loving heart. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium EPITHALAMIUM, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, - sound the notes of joy Last Line: And endless blessings crown their days! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EROS TURANNOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She fears him, and will always ask Last Line: Where down the blind are driven. Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Destiny; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EULALIE; A SONG, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I dwelt alone / in a world of moan Last Line: While ever to her young eulalie upturns her violet eye. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FAR BUGLES, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road bent round a cliff Last Line: Taking, and leaving, the old, imponderable load. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FIRELIGHT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years together without yet a cloud Last Line: Apart, and would be hers if he had known. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FIRST OR LAST?; A WIFE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARGARET VELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life ebbs from me - I must die Last Line: Is it the first kiss -- or the last? Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FLOWRETS, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little blossoms, unpretentious flowrets Last Line: I and you! Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FOR A MARRIAGE OF SAINT KATHERINE [OR, CATHERINE], by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: katherine [catherine] the bride of christ Last Line: The light is starred in gems and the gold burns. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 2. A Marriage Of St. Katharine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Paintings & Painters; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A WIDOWER OR WIDOW, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How near me came the hand of death Last Line: The being of a faithful friend. Variant Title(s): A Widow's Hymn;hymn For A Widower Or A Widow Deprived Of A Loving .. Fellow Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR BOTH OF YOU, THE DIVORCE BEING FINAL, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot celebrate with doleful music Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FORGET-ME-NOT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gallant knight and his betroth'd bride Last Line: And it will solace me in a lonely hour. Subject(s): Courtship; Drowning; Love - Marital; Memory; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FRIENDSHIP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alter? When the hills do Last Line: I will of you! Subject(s): Daffodils; Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more Last Line: And feel a kind of regret. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs FRUSTRATION, by ANNE SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I walked with paul in starlight Last Line: How I liked the weather! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love GRISELDA: CHAPTER 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An idle story with an idle moral! Last Line: Was slow of speech, or that he slept too well! Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Marital; Novels & Novelists; Women; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman that you forsake her Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; War; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HEART AND SOUL, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fair! O sweet! When I do look on thee Last Line: Heart and soul do sing in me. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Tune Of A Spanish Song;sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HERE IS MUSIC: 16. CHANT ROYAL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Because I, spiritually starving, knew Last Line: An-hunger'd and full fain for former happiness. Subject(s): Aging; Happiness; Love - Marital; Youth; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT JUDEX, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Hair, strands of copper blent with skeins of gold Last Line: Supreme in self-abandon, artist effortless. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Passion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT MEDICUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: We two, that once were young, to-day Last Line: Since first we looked, longed, loved ... Stood paramours. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HIS OWN TRUE WIFE, by WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH Poem Text First Line: Hidden lovers' woes Last Line: Love so sweet bestows in all men's sight his own true wife! Alternate Author Name(s): Wolfram Von Eschonbach Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 3. A SECOND PLACE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would, indeed, that heaven had made me meek Last Line: That loves me wholly, and is love indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HOME BURIAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Last Line: "I'll follow and bring you back by force. I will! -- " Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HUSBAND AND WIFE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever I said and whatever you said, I love you Last Line: "I love you." Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love I AM YOUR WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, let me lay my head tonight upon your breast" Last Line: "and, oh, I thank my god tonight I am your wife" Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love IF 'TIS LOVE TO WISH YOU NEAR, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: If this be loving—then I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love IN A LONDON FLAT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You look like a widower,' she said Last Line: That she had forgotten them where she slept. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE MONTH OF MAY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the month of may when all leaves open Last Line: I would like us to spend the night Subject(s): Love - Marital; May (month); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love IN TWOS, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in the world there hide Last Line: Then two at the heart of all! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JAMES LEE'S WIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, love, but a day Last Line: When I should be dead of joy, james lee? Subject(s): Love - Marital; Disillusion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love JEAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a' the airts the wind can blaw Last Line: But minds me of my jean. Variant Title(s): I Love My Jean Subject(s): Absence; Armour, Jean (1764-1834); Love - Marital; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Burns, Jean Armour (1764-1834); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love JEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We now mid hope vor better cheer Last Line: An' leäve them times behine, jeäne. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love JOHN ANDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John anderson, my jo, john, / when we were first acquent Last Line: John anderson, my jo. Subject(s): Aging; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sex; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOHN OF TOURS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John of tours is back with peace Last Line: "aye, and still you have room to spare, / for you must shut the baby there" Subject(s): Death;graves;love - Marital;peace; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;wedded Love;marriage - Love; JOHN-JOHN, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night of you, john-john Last Line: And that's my prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love L'ENVOI, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how the sun Last Line: And I am mrs. Brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LET RAKES FOR PLEASURE RANGE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let rakes for pleasure range the town Last Line: And wedlock's bands make johnny jenny's. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE IS MOTION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In oklahoma, / bonnie and josie Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIKE A LAVEROCK IN THE LIFT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's we two, it's we two, it's we two for aye Last Line: Sitting by the golden sheaves on our wedding day. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LINES WRITTEN TO HIS WIFE [WHILE ON A VISIT TO UPPER INDIA], by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wert by my side, my love Last Line: As then shall meet in thee! Variant Title(s): Verses To Mrs. Heber Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LINES, WRITTEN ON SEEING MY HUSBAND'S PICTURE, PAINTED WHEN YOUNG, by ANNA SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Those are the features, those the smiles Last Line: And pity pour her healing tear. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Paintings And Painters; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LORD WALTER'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But why do you go!' said the lady, while both sat under the yew Last Line: "come, dora, my darling, my angel, and help me to ask him to dine." Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back Last Line: So I did sit and eat. Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology LOVE 10, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mother you you father me vice versa Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE 2, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Used to each other to the point that we Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE 8, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love as the secret doubling of bodies Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE AND MARRIAGE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love of man for woman and woman for man Last Line: But in the beloved shall he find him, and in the sight of the beloved shall he adore him... Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION A), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward Last Line: Bring her to my arms on the first may night. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Marital; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE SONG: I AND THOU, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is plumb, level, or square: Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S AUTUMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not lose a single silvery ray Last Line: But there as here, thou smilest, love! On me! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S CALENDAR; TO AN ABSENT WIFE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O since 'tis decreed by the envious fates Last Line: It may fairly be reckoned a year! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S EVENING, by ANNA C. CARRAHER Poem Text First Line: Love cannot always burn at noonday heat Last Line: And wait, with you, the coming of the night. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Marital; Memory; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S FAIRYLAND; TO FLORENCE ON HER WEDDING DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is beauty on the mountains Last Line: There dawns another day. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Passion; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MALLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah well-a-day! What will become of me? Last Line: My door stands open; open are my arms Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love MARGARET'S BRIDAL EVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old grey mother she thrummed on her knee Last Line: And the bird sings over the roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Prophecy & Prophets; Roses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARITAE SUAE, by WILLIAM PHILPOT Poem Text First Line: Of all the flowers rising now Last Line: If fairer than they were before! Variant Title(s): To His Wife Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MARRIAGE, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should I get married? Should I be good? Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So different, this man Last Line: In a field. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MARRIAGE A LA MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a foolish marriage vow Last Line: Twas pleasure first made in an oath. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIED COUPLES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When love is strong in married couples Last Line: How she and I have loved each other! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MARRIED PEOPLE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young rollo and alice got married last Last Line: Do. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Poverty; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG. ROSES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now hath flora robbed her bowers Last Line: So doth a bridegroom his bride's bed adorn. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 3. SYSTEM, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll clean my desk up bye and bye Last Line: I wish you wouldn't do it! Subject(s): Housewives; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MENELAUS AND HELEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot through troy's ruin menelaus broke Last Line: And paris slept on by scamander side. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Soldiers' Writings; Trojan War; World War I; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War MIDSUMMER EVE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let silence with her long pale hands ravish the / violin Last Line: Oh! Elfin hands to-night. Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MODERN LOVE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this he knew she wept with waking eyes Last Line: Each wishing for the sword that severs all. Subject(s): Divorce; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MODERN LOVE: 34, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes Last Line: Niagara or vesuvius is deferred. Variant Title(s): "madam Would Speak With Me. So, Now It Comes""; Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MOUNTAIN BRIDE, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say revis found a flatrock Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O soul of mine, look out and see Last Line: My bride -- my bride that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love - Marital; Marriage; Soul; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY DEAREST JULIA, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Can or can I not live on Last Line: Forgetful of my love forgone?' Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MY DEAREST WIFE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had mona been, as many are Last Line: At last to where my love is gone. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; 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 LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY LOVE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as all other women are Last Line: Sweet homes wherein to live and die. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; White, Maria; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY NEIGHBOR BUYS WHITE HYACINTHS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor drives her car at dawn Last Line: Because of life I miss. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY ROAD LEADS TO YOU, by CLARA TULL MARTIN Poem Text First Line: This is my road' - I heard a woman say Last Line: My road is the road which leads me to you. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trusty, dusky, vivid, true Last Line: Gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): To My Wife Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology NO TIME LIKE THE OLD TIME, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young Last Line: There are no loves like our old loves, -- god bless our loving wives! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love NUPTIAL SLEEP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length their long kiss severed with sweet smart Last Line: He woke, and wondered more: for there she lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OATH OF FRIENDSHIP (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Shang ya! / I want to be your friend Last Line: Not till then will I part from you Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);friendship;love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love OH STRANGE AND SAD, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: Oh strange and sad that two may live beside Last Line: And finds the shadows that its longings wore. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ON A WEDDING, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! How the bells ring, how happy the day Last Line: And all that she wish'd to receive. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is torn across Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON AN ANNIVERSARY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years and more go by Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON HIS GOLDEN-WEDDING DAY, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love burned once in your cheeks where now, as ashes Last Line: When soul meets soul upon love's eminence. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Walking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light Variant Title(s): The Marriage Of A Virgin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Virginity; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals ON THE TWO DWARFS THAT WERE MARRIED AT COURT, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Design, or chance, makes others wive Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ORPHEUS, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orpheus can never look back at the real woman trailing behind him out of hell Last Line: Seeing his wife as an ordinary woman, she is lost. And he is lost Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love PENELOPE IN DOUBT, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgotten brooch and shrivelled scar Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRIVY-LOVE FOR MY LANDLADY, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Here costive many minutes did I strain Last Line: Dear, doting dick, for o! She saved my life. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love PROPOSALS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sukey, you shall be my wife" Last Line: "say yes, if you please" Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love PSALM 1, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Happy the man that doth not walk Last Line: Shall by his hand be overthrown. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love RE-STATEMENT OF ROMANCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night knows nothing of the chants of night Last Line: In the pale light that each upon the other throws Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love REUBEN BRIGHT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he was a butcher and thereby Last Line: In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house. Subject(s): Butchers; Death; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kettle descants in a cosy drone Last Line: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But hear, if you stay, and the child be born Last Line: Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Love - Marital; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 9. AT THE ALTAR-RAIL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom Last Line: "I had eaten the apple ere you were weaned.""'" Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the church and chancel Last Line: Where all's the same. Subject(s): Churches; Love - Marital; Marriage; Cathedrals; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SILVER WEDDING, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silver wedding! On some pensive ear Last Line: Shall gleam in glories of a deathless day. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOME WOMEN, by SIMONIDES OF AMORGOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the creation god made women's natures Last Line: By god -- she is the best and wisest wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Semonides Of Amorgos Subject(s): Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SOMETIMES THIS HAPPENS, by LOUISE HAYNES Poem Text First Line: She liked tall things Last Line: Of circular rotundity. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest love, I do not go Last Line: Alive, ne'er parted be. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by GEORGE LYTTELTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy hours are almost past Last Line: To die, and think you mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG (11), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon Last Line: Aspiring love has hallowed passion's tide. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Moon; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG OF SOLOMON: 5:1, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: I came into my garden Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG OF THE DYING OLD MAN TO HIS YOUNG WIFE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kate, there's a trembling at my heart, a coldness at my brow Last Line: I die within thy arms, my kate, and feel no sting of death. Subject(s): Death; Love - Age Differences; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG TO MY WIFE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those eyes that were so bright, love Last Line: Where hope admired before! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement SONNET: 27, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought our love at full, but I did err Last Line: To print on farthest stars her pitying kiss. Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 3, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Last Line: Die single, and thine image dies with thee. Variant Title(s): "look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest""; Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 73, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold Last Line: To love that well which thou must leave ere long. Variant Title(s): "that Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold"";where Late The Sweet Birds Sang;sonnet #73; Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Conceit; Death; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Old Age; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 8, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Last Line: Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.' Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 9, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die Last Line: That they who love are but one step from heaven. Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 9, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye Last Line: That on himself such murderous shame commits. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: O HUSBAND!, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O husband! This word of care born Last Line: I'm a woman, am empty, yet full of light for thee. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 14, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou must love me, let it be for nought Last Line: Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity. Variant Title(s): Love For Love's Sake;for Love's Sake Only Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 18, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never gave a lock of hair away Last Line: The kiss my mother left here when she died. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say over again, and yet once over again Last Line: To love me also in silence with thy soul. Variant Title(s): Assurance Subject(s): Love - Marital; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 28, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My letters! All dead paper, mute and white! Last Line: If, what this said, I dared repeat at last! Variant Title(s): Love Letters Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 35, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange Last Line: And fold within the wet wings of thy dove. Variant Title(s): Fullness Of Love Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 38, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed Last Line: I have been proud and said, 'my love, my own.' Variant Title(s): Chrism And Crown Of Love;first, Second, Third;three Kisses Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 39, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace Last Line: To pour out gratitude, as thou dost, good! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 43, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Last Line: I shall but love thee better after death. Variant Title(s): Sonnets From The Portguese: 42;the Ways Of Love;perfect Love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Last Line: And sees within my eyes the tears of two. Variant Title(s): Far And Yet Near Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SORT OF TIMID LIKE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once I loved a maiden Last Line: Sort of timid like. Subject(s): Family Life; Love - Marital; Relatives; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BENJAMIN PANTIER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Together in this grave lie benjamin pantier, attorney at law Last Line: Our story is lost in silence. Go by, mad world! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. BENJAMIN PANTIER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that he told that I snared his soul Last Line: Back of his office. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPRING, by C. WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: Young morning tapped sharply on my window Last Line: All day two dusty, bloated flies have been crawling over the sky-light. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Nature; Spring; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ABDUCTION, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some things I do not profess to understand Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE AEOLIAN HARP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pensive sara! Thy soft cheek reclined Last Line: Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honoured maid! Variant Title(s): Lines Composed At Clevedon;the Eolian Harp;effusion: 35, Composed At Clevedo, Somersetshire Subject(s): Harps; Love - Marital; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 9. PRELUDE: THE WIFE'S TRAGEDY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man must be pleased; but him to please Last Line: As grass grows taller round a stone. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 12. HUSBAND AND WIFE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, while the shop-girl fitted on Last Line: And ran into each other's arms. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 12. PRELUDE: THE MARRIED LOVER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, having won her, do I woo Last Line: And more to-day than yesterday. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ANNIVERSARY [ANNIVERSARIE], by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All kings, and all their favourites Last Line: To write threescore, this is the second of our reign. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE BETROTHAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, come, my lad, or go, my lad Last Line: There's few enough as is. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHOICE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny is a butterfly Last Line: When jenny is my wife! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CONTRACT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave myself to him Last Line: Insolvent, every noon. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE COQUETTE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She laughs, the dimples come and go Last Line: She weds old moneybags at last! Subject(s): Flirtation; Happiness; Laughter; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE CROSS OF SNOW, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long, sleepless watches of the night Last Line: And seasons, changeless since the day she died. Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE DANCE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would have each couple turn Last Line: Love changes, and in change is true Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE DEVOTED, by ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: Stern faces were around them bent, and eyes of vengeful ire Last Line: And left her all unharm'd amidst her loveliness and pride! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE DREAM RANGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, young, I slept in a cold bed Last Line: To hell! With life on the dream range! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Money; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband is a good, hardworking man Last Line: "and john's come in. ""yes, I'll have supper soon!" Subject(s): Family Life; Freedom; Love - Marital; Marriage; Relatives; Liberty; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRESIDE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear chloe, while the busy crowd Last Line: And smooth the bed of death. Variant Title(s): A Paradise Below Subject(s): Fire; Happiness; Home; Life; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE FOUNDLING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's the glimmer of dew on the bending grass Last Line: But love has found him at morning's light. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Comfort; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE FROG AND THE MOUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A frog went walking one fine day Last Line: "if you want to find out, go look for yourself / a-hmmm, a-hmmm" Subject(s): Love - Marital;marriage; Wedded Love;marriage - Love;weddings;husbands;wives THE GOOD-MORROW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Last Line: Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; New Year; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 HILL WIFE: LONELINESS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One ought not to have to care / so much as you and I Last Line: And their built or driven nests. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Loneliness THE HUELESS LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto that love must we through fire attain Last Line: And one passed out, and one the bell-head hung. Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE KNOWING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE LADY OF ROSENECK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a merry song of the blustering days when troopers were rough and raw Last Line: "a wife so brave, and a wife so kind, and a wife with such a back!" Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MARRIAGE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes from opposite poles Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MARRIAGE, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incarnate for our marriage you appeared Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That heat! / that terrible heat Last Line: Unfused / and unfusing Subject(s): Marriage; Man-woman Relationships; Love – Complaints; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MASTER SPEED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No speed of wind or water rushing by Last Line: Together wing to wing and oar to oar Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 MOTHER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the nurse gone now? And are we alone at last? Last Line: The father (joyously): no, no; good-morning, mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE PROGRESS OF MARRIAGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aetatis suae fifty-two Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE QUESTION ANSWER'D, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it men in women do require? Last Line: The lineaments of gratified desire. Variant Title(s): A Question Answered Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love - Marital; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE REASON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something has changed him; yesterday Last Line: His wife is coming home to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE REWAKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sooner or later / we must come to the end Last Line: Itself is revived Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by LI PO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Last Line: As far as cho-fu-sa. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Variant Title(s): Cathay: The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter Subject(s): Absence; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Men; Teenagers; Separation; Isolation; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 57, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography First Line: You know, my friends, how bravely in my house Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by JEAN ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And are ye sure the news is true? Last Line: When our gudeman's awa'. Alternate Author Name(s): Adam, Jean Variant Title(s): The Mariner's Wife;there's Nae Luck About The House Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sailing & Sailors; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Seamen; Sails THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him most / when he came home from work Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 58, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sir eliduc hath ta'en the maid aside Last Line: Against his breast her burden'd plaint did pour— Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 7, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His lady leal still tenderer became Last Line: In fierce revolt at his opprobrious ban. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 76, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sorely the knight chastised their cowardice Last Line: And with the knowledge her white soul had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 83, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: With lilting heart she heralds his return Last Line: Were recompense for many past alarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Homecoming; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 87, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So, ere the first pale flush of day appear'd Last Line: Beauty than marble lovelier and more chill! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SONG OF A TRAVELLER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Last Line: Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Romance;my Valentine;a Fine Song For Singing;songs Of Travel: 11 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You shall hear how pau-puk-keewis Last Line: "from the evening star descending." Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TELEPHONE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was just as far as I could walk Last Line: "well, so I came." Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Telephones; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VACUUM, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is so quiet now Subject(s): Love - Marital; Vacuum Cleaners; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE VIVANDIERE ('70), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yvonne, / how you dazzled in the dance! Last Line: For yvonne the vivandière! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs THE WAY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My love's manners in bed Last Line: And love her as hard as you can Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE WEDDED LOVER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read in our old journals of the days Last Line: These being so much fairer, spent with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE WEDDING DAY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart, name the day for me Last Line: Rosebuds wither, picked too soon. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING VOW, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not stand at the altar, I stood Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose to his requirement, dropped Last Line: The fathoms they abide. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE WIFE, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES Poem Text First Line: I could have stemmed misfortune's tide Last Line: I could not live alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE WIFE OF LOKI, by CHARLOTTE ELLIOT (1830-1880) Poem Text First Line: Cursed by the gods and crowned with Last Line: Resumes her constant place. Alternate Author Name(s): Florenz Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE TO HER HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Linger not long. Home is not home wihtout thee Last Line: "haste, as a skiff, through tempests wide and swelling, / flies to its haven of securest rest!" Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love THE WIFE'S TREASURE, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sidon lived a husband with his wife Last Line: "now thou art mine, and I will treasure thee!" Subject(s): Jews; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: MARRIAGE MORNING, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light, so low upon earth Last Line: Flash for a million miles. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus THE WRAGGLE TAGGLE GIPSIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three gipsies a-come to my door Last Line: "along with the wraggle taggle gipsies, o!" Subject(s): Gypsies;love - Marital;marriage;wandering & Wanderers;; Gipsies;wedded Love;marriage - Love;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 TITHONUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall Last Line: And thee returning on thy silver wheels. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Immortality; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO 'THE WIFE', by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say I'm 'getting used' to you Last Line: So used to you I couldn't live without you! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO - (4), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dearer far than light and life are dear Last Line: The faith heaven strengthens where 'he' moulds the creed. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice at times a fist Last Line: I sit at home and see it all / through you Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Love - Marital; Negroes; American Blacks; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO A HUSBAND, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brighter than fireflies upon the uji river Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO A POET OF HIS MARRIAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever and ever, on and on Last Line: That led to where she waited you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Future; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A YOUNG COUPLE, BY HALF OF AN OLD(ISH) COUPLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You think that all the world is fair Last Line: It's better all the time! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO EDITH SOUTHEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edith! I brought thee late a humble gift Last Line: Robert southey. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Maturity; Poetry & Poets; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO HIS WIFE, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be life what it has been, and let us hold Last Line: Count not the years, but take of each its boon. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO HIS WIFE ON THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, WITH A RING, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee, mary, with this ring I wed' / so, sixteen years ago, I said Last Line: And teach me all things--but repentance. Variant Title(s): The Second Marriage Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birthdays; Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO JANE (HIS WIFE, ON HER BIRTHDAY, THE SIXTH OF NOVEMBER), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear heart, and a most kind good-morrow Last Line: So may thy life be measured out by flowers! Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY ANTENOR, MARCH 16, 1661/2, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear antenor, now give o'er Last Line: Believe that providence will do so too. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Innocence; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO MY MORE THAN MERITORIOUS WIFE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am, by fate, slave to your will Last Line: John. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY WIFE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever loveliness is in this music Last Line: All these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY WIFE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Braver than sea-going ships with the dawn in their Last Line: I ride for your star! Variant Title(s): Dedication To A First Book Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY WIFE, by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without thee, I am unblest Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY WIFE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curse of adam, the old curse of all Last Line: As only should be shed for guilt and shame! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY WIFE ON HER BIRTHDAY; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! --ty years? -- I never could have guessed it Last Line: "have spent their life, and, ""dying, made no sign!" Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY WIFE: WITH A COPY OF MY POEMS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can write no stately proem Last Line: You will understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO SPEAK OF WOE THAT IS IN MARRIAGE', by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open Variant Title(s): "life Studies: ""to Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage""; Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE GOLDEN WIFE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With laughter always on the darkest day Last Line: Thrice blest and all unworthy I! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO THE STORMY PETREL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever perilous and precious, like an ember from the fire Last Line: In peace and tempest it has ever shone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love - Marital; War; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOGETHER, by HANNAH K. AKEN Poem Text First Line: He lays his paper by, refills his pipe Last Line: And such true friends. Oh! These are happy days. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TOWARD A DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is to make a fill, not find a land Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chamber of birth Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TRILOGY, by TERRY KRUG Poem Text First Line: There is one thing in life that is priced Last Line: When she hears both her children try to stifle their cries. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TWO LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring Last Line: O past that is! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood TWO VOICES FROM HESTER STREET (1904), by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning / in the warm air Last Line: Abraham Subject(s): Love - Marital; Slavery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Serfs TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 1, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two wedded hearts, if e'er were such Last Line: Die into an intenser life/ Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The builder left one narrow rent Last Line: And union absolute of love. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TYLNEY HALL: TO MY WIFE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still glides the gentle streamlet on Last Line: My tide of life is true to thee. Variant Title(s): The Streamlet Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love UPON ONE LILLIE, WHO MARRYED WITH MAID CALL'D ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What times of sweetnesse this faire day fore-shows Last Line: To spring from these a sweet posterity. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF AN ARTIST, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like soft skies that bend at even Last Line: His italy in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love VISIONS IN VERSE: 7. MARRIAGE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest, this vision is thy due Last Line: And her awards preclude appeals. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WAY DOWN SOUTH ON THE OLD S'WANNEE, by BENJAMIN D. DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Way down on the s'wannee river ...' Last Line: Way down south on the old s'wannee. Subject(s): Florida; Love - Marital; Palm Trees; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love WEDDED (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knotted moment that untwists Last Line: Kindness like death's have caught. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love WEDDED HANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year, sweet wife, is on the wane Last Line: Good-night, old year, good-night! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDED LOVE, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES Poem Text First Line: Come, rouse thee, dearest! - 'tis not well Last Line: In fond, undying, wedded love. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love WEDDING-WIND, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blew all my wedding-day Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WERE I BUT HIS OWN WIFE, by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were I but his own wife, to guard and to guide him Last Line: To rise like the morning star, darling for you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Of The Nation Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHEN I HEARD AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd Last Line: And his arm lay lightly around my breast--and that night I was happy. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love WITCH-WIFE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is neither pink nor pale Last Line: And she never will be all mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WREATH FOR A BRIDAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though green leaves only witness Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love |
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