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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WIVES Matches Found: 1205 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "AN IMITATION OF MARTIAL, BOOK 11 EP. 104", by CAPTAIN" "H.[PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "sweet spouse, you must presently troop and be gone" Last Line: "move, wriggle, heave, pant, clip round like a ring: / in short, be as lewd as a strumpet" Alternate Author Name(s): "h., Captain; Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives 50-STRING LUTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lifetimes / continue Last Line: Forty-eight times they spin, right, then left Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A 'MERCENARY' MARRIAGE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She moves as light across the grass Last Line: My dearest maid of moreton hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a princely chamber sat Last Line: For him is set for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF AN ARTIST'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet wife, this heavy-hearted age Last Line: "and in her peace forever dwell." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hunger; Marriage; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF EUTHANASIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In magic books she read at night Last Line: Of death is love and life.' Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Magic; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF HELL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A letter from my love today! Last Line: Hell raised a hoarse half-human cheer. Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve Subject(s): Betrayal; Deception; Heaven; Hell; Love; Marriage; Suicide; Paradise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee, dick, where I have been Last Line: With bridget and with nell. Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Cities; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song; Urban Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A BEARD FOR A BLUE PANTRY, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bluebeard displayed his wives Subject(s): Marriage; Cancer (disease); Beards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BENEDICT'S APPEAL TO A BACHELOR, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear charles, be persuaded to wed Last Line: T is singular you should be single! Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today when persimmons ripen Last Line: Today when persimmons ripen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BRIDAL MEASURE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, essay a sprightly measure Last Line: Bridal dance for you and me. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BRIDE, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw your portrait yesterday Last Line: The loneliest of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BUSH CHRISTENING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the outer barcoo where the churches are few Last Line: How he came to be christened maginnis! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology A CATCH; EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now I'm married, the priest I'll not curse" Last Line: I would be advised ere I married again Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives A CITY ECLOGUE, by W." "J. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "'twas sunday morning, quite serene the air" Last Line: "let us poor cits do whatsoever we may, / our headstrong spouses still will have their way!" Alternate Author Name(s): "j., W.; Subject(s): Cities;marriage;old Age; Urban Life;weddings;husbands;wives 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 CONNUBIAL ECLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much lately have I thought, my darling wife Last Line: I've not the proper spirit of a wife! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear mother, fairest queen and best Last Line: And in a while, you'll tell another tale. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A FAREWELL TO WIVES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Once in our lives Last Line: And so we shall be rid of them all Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives A FISHER'S-WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soonest mended, nothing said Last Line: And he and I so far apart! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A FUNERAL POEM UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER ENDEARED AND TENDER WIFE, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gracious lord, I licence of thee crave Last Line: Much in her thoughts, and yet she fear'd not death. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Marriage; Mourning; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The; Burials; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A GAME OF FIVES, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five little girls, of five, four, three, two, one Last Line: "the answer to that ancient problem ""how the money goes!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Girls; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GOLDEN WEDDING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your golden wedding! - fifty Last Line: But take it -- I have more of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GOLDEN WEDDING: C.B.-E.A.B., 1825-1875, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speech is silver - silence gold' Last Line: "earth how fair and heaven how bright!" Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GOOD HUSBAND, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A master of a house (as I have read) Last Line: He sets his foot, he leaves rich compost there. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GRAIN OF SALT, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the wimming doubly blest Last Line: And sail and sail -- and let 'er knit. Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails A HOUSEHOLD HINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she practices, my jealous wife" Last Line: Done up in naphtha-balls Subject(s): Marriage;smells; Weddings;husbands;wives;odors;aromas;fragrances A KISS TO THE BRIDE; MARRIAGE OF NELLY GRANT, MAY 21, 1874, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred, blithesome, undenied Last Line: Unto a nation's loving kiss. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 SENT FROM OCTAVIA TO HER HUSBAND MARCUS ANTONIUS INTO EGYPT, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, yet dear though most disloyal lord Last Line: To thee the heart that's thine, and so I end. Subject(s): Egypt; Letters; Love; Marriage; Roman Empire; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 LONDON LETTER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your letter arrived with its letters Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LOYAL WOMAN'S NO, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! Is my answer from this cold Last Line: Take my life's silence for your answer: no! Subject(s): Evil; Freedom; Loyalty; Marriage; Women's Rights; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A MARRIAGE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother knew why her treatment wasn't working, Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives A MARRIAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met / under a shower Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): 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 MARRIAGE POEM, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning: the caged baby Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives 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 MARRIAGE-TABLE; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a marriage-table where one sate Last Line: And change life's bitterest waters into wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MARRIED WOMAN, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall marry, if I do not find Last Line: Unpunish'd: his consent made hers a sin. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bias; Intolerance A MORNING AFTER MOURNING, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me no longer presse your gentle eies Last Line: Saints triumph, princes wed; and court and country feaste's. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MOUNTAIN GRAVE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why fear to die Last Line: Of nature's child the common fate. Subject(s): Graves; Marriage; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A MYSTERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus a young wife, alighting from the train Last Line: In mute amazement at each other stare. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Mystery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW LITANY, OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO A WEDDING, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure Last Line: Libera nos. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW MOTHER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my lady when she died Last Line: -- well, I loved my own dear lady best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Love; Marriage; Mothers; Tears; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NUPTIALL VERSE TO MISTRESSE ELIZABETH LEE, NOW LADY TRACIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring with the larke, most comely bride, and meet Last Line: Drown'd in the bloud of rubies there, not die. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PASTORAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Flower of the medlar Last Line: To wake our wedding-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Marriage; Nymphs; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PLEA FOR TRIGAMY, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been trying to fashion a wifely ideal Last Line: Than three. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PROSPECTIVE GLIMPSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Janey pettibone's the best Last Line: Little janey pettibone! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes A REGULAR GIRL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, what do you mean by a regular girl? Last Line: And a regular mother as well. Subject(s): Admiration; Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy A RONDELAY, by PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is for woman made Last Line: And woman made for man. Alternate Author Name(s): Motteux, Pierre Antoine Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A ROSE IN OCTOBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed, all alone, where the Last Line: She'd bloom for me aye, as -- my wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Marriage; October; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SCANDAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the inlet's ebb and rise Last Line: "I firmly believe that the tale was true!)" Subject(s): Defamation; Marriage; New York City - Dutch Period; Slander; Libel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SHORT SONG OF CONGRATULATION, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long-expected one and twenty Last Line: You can hang or drown at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): One And Twenty Subject(s): Birthdays; Inheritance & Succession; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Wealth; Youth; Heirs; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes A SILVER WEDDING: B.F.B.-E.G.B., 1855-1880, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in other days and climes Last Line: There unending love and light! Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SISTER OF SORROW: 3. WEDDING-EVE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gown and veil and bride-bed linen Last Line: "your tomb or his, 'tis one to me." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SKETCH FROM LIFE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its eyes are gray Last Line: To life! Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SPLENDID FELLOW, by H. C. DODGE Poem Text First Line: Delmonico's is where he dines Last Line: "I'll turn the dress I made last year." Subject(s): Marriage; Money; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STORY AS WET AS TEARS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the princess who kissed the frog Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 5, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when two days were over, japhet said Last Line: His father answering, 'son, thy words are good.' Subject(s): God; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 8, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then one ran, crying, while niloiya wrought Last Line: He and his father, to the marriage feast. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STRUGGLE FOR A HUSBAND, FR. BALLADYNA, by JULJUSZ SLOWACKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How full of berries - and what rosy red! Last Line: By lightning and perishes.] Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You keep eating and raising a family Last Line: Of my superiority Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO TWO OF HER SISTER MISTERIS A.B., by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I to my brethern wrote, and to my sisters two Last Line: Your loving sister. Is. W. Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TENTH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPH, 1952, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Look at their faces. You know it all. Subject(s): Marriage; Anniversaries; Life Choices; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TIME OF BEES, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day my husband pounds on the upstairs porch Subject(s): Bees; Marriage; Beekeeping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A TRIBUTE TO THE BRIDE AND GROOM, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, we are gathered together Last Line: In the pure, sweet, abode of the bride and the groom. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 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 WAR-LULLABY; AUGUST, 1916, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire dwindles and the wind moans Last Line: Baby soon will be asleep. ... Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fear; Marriage; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was in terrible pain the whole day Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING AT CANA, LEBANON, 2007, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said, 'it is terrible what happens.' Subject(s): Marriage; War; Lebanon; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING ON EARTH, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the feet that root deep to walk the ground Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING SONG, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said: 'my heart, now let us sing a song' Last Line: "and with a ""peace be with you!"" go my way." Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame. Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs A WEDDING TOAST, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem 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 WEDDING-DAY GALLOP (EARLY CALIFORNIA), by IRENE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Gallop with me, love, away and away Last Line: Together, together, and always to be. Subject(s): California; Home; Horseback Riding; Love; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips A WIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stretch out both my hands to you Last Line: For all their wistful prayer to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Sexism; Slavery; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs A WIFE, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord erskine, at women presuming to rail Last Line: That's the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WIFE AND ANOTHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War ends, and he's returning Last Line: I held I had not stirred god wrothfully. Subject(s): Homecoming; Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WIFE'S LETTER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My own Last Line: But only that this comes from me. Subject(s): Letters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WILD FLOWER, by GUSTAVE LEMOINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gleaner brown, a rustic flower Last Line: And mingle weeping with the strain. Subject(s): Marriage; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN FOR THE ADVENTURE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman for the adventure Last Line: Such the woman I want for the adventure! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN'S ANSWER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love thee?' thou canst not ask of me Last Line: "I'll ""love, and honor, and obey." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN'S COMPLAINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know that deep within your heart of hearts Last Line: "go praying with white lips from day to day / for love's sweettokens, and receive them not" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives ABDUCTOR, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I cannot correct my name. Because the boat Subject(s): Doubt; Love; Marriage; Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ABOUT HUSBANDS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Johnson was right. I don't agree at all Last Line: But apt to take his temper from his dinner. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ABOUT MARRIAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't lock me in wedlock, I want Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AD ASTRA: 107, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Shall woman's sweet devotion also pass Last Line: And woman's virtue by each wind bespoken? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADDRESS TO COL. D. C. R. CARRICK-BUCHANAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Noble mind, that formed the liberal plan Last Line: Heaven's richest, choicest blessings ever share! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Generosity; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Parks; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADDRESS TO HER HUSBAND, by MEHETABEL (WESLEY) WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: The ardent lover cannot find Last Line: To laugh when hetty is no more. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem 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 ADVICE TO A FRIEND ON MARRIAGE, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: Ope! Who? A friend! What wouldst obtain Last Line: You're crazy--batter out your brain. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY LATELY MARRIED, by ESTHER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Dear peggy, since the single state Last Line: And blushing throw the pen aside. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylvia; Clark, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you gain her affection, take care to preserve it Subject(s): Marriage; Sons; Advice; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO MY YOUNG WIFE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have shattered your hands Last Line: It often clatters to the floor. Subject(s): Advice; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO THE LADIES OF LONDON IN THE CHOICE OF HUSBANDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ladies of london, both wealthy and fair" Last Line: "if this don't please, old nick is in you" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives AELLA: MINSTREL'S MARRIAGE-SONG, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The budding floweret blushes at the light Last Line: Winter and dusky hills will have a charm for thee. Variant Title(s): The Want Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I have found the secret way Last Line: Is a living music in us yet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER AN ABSENCE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After an absence that was no one's fault Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, mabel, 'tis over and ended Last Line: I think it will happen in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes AFTER THE GUEST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guest departs Subject(s): Guests; Marriage; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE GUEST; FOR MY BROTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guest departs Last Line: I pray we'll grow old. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Guests; Marriage; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; 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 AGAINST MARRIAGE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of mere love and arrant devotion Last Line: But the hell-fire of marriage none can endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AGAINST MARRIAGE TO HIS MISTRESS, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, all the world must sure agree Last Line: When once that love is past? Variant Title(s): To His Mistress Against Marriage Subject(s): Marriage; Mnemonics; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ALIEN KINSHIP SAYS I WAS THE TROBRIAND ISLANDER, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borrowed in blue. Rule & deal. What kinship system operative here if Last Line: Take that smirk off the face-gone-bush as your case may be Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALIEN WOMEN; SONGKHLA, THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-blind in the pharmacy's dim light Last Line: Back into the sun's fistful of blades. Subject(s): Intermarriage; Marriage; Shopping; Thailand; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A friend of mine was married to a scold Last Line: My scolding wife has gone among the rest Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives ALMORAN TO ELIZA; WITH A HEART OF ICE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poets, when they paint a pair Last Line: To shape the expressive ice. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALONE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He grows used to the sound of the floor Last Line: That he didn't do. He would like to meet them. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Solitude; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness ALONE IN HER SPRINT OF HIM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She alone in her sprint of him alone in her welcomed Last Line: It is liquid: it is silver. It is gold. It is holy Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMBOYNA: EPITHALAMIUM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is come, I see it rise Last Line: And now despairing shuts her eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Marriage; Virginity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals AMELIA, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had lived centuries apart. The imperial Last Line: Of sky and scudding clouds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMENDS FOR LADIES, by NATHANIEL FIELD Poem Text First Line: A wife the happiest state? Last Line: She leads feesimple towards bold. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Nat Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMOR SEMPITERNUS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When first I found thee, ruth, I thought: 'how rare!' Last Line: Remembering a chaos of caresses. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Luck; Marriage; Passion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 APRIL EPITHALAMIUM; FOR JOHN AND ANNE HUGHES, by ANNE STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I meant to write a poem upon your wedding Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN AUTUMN WEDDING-SONG, by ALGERNON TASSIN Poem Text First Line: Southward the swallow flies, south to the sunlands Last Line: And it's sing for the gold of her wedding-morn! Subject(s): Harvest; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EASTERN QUESTION, by H. M. PAULL Poem Text First Line: My william was a soldier, and he says to me, says he Last Line: Whilst the man that I was faithful to has been and gone and died! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EASY REMEMDY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An honest tailor, whose baptismal Last Line: "why don't you warm it?" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Water; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ECLOGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas e'ening whan the spreckled gowdspink sang Last Line: And take your supper kail or sowens wi me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Conversation; Halloween; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ELEGY ON A MAIDEN NAME, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, dear name which birth and nature gave Last Line: Each find in each a just, unshaken friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Names; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPISTLE TO MY FRIEND J.B., by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, jack, how now? I hear strange stories Last Line: Was sure to split, and sink, and damn. Subject(s): Curses; Love; Marriage; Temptation; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPITALAMIE TO SIR THOMAS SOUTHWELL AND HIS LADIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, now's the time; so oft by truth Last Line: Two, like two ripe shocks of corn. Subject(s): Marriage; 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 EPITHALAMIUM, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Lo! Hymen passes through th' admiring crowds Last Line: And make one poor hermaphrodite at most Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): Hermaphrodites;marriage;mythology - Classical; Weddings;husbands;wives AN HYMENEAL DIALOGUE: BRIDE AND GROOM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, my love, since hymen ti'd Last Line: Each by contraction multipli'd. Subject(s): Weddings;; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN IDYLL OF PIPECLAY PONDS, by TOM FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Talk of the beauties of wedded life Last Line: That had its finale at skillicorn's dance. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN IMPROMPUT FAIRY-TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst upon a time wunst Last Line: "guess I'll marry you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fairy Tales; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: Not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Marriage; Sea; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean ANDROMACHE'S WEDDING, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hector and his men bring the girl, her eyes gleaming Last Line: Singing for hector and for andromache divine. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANGELUS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, okay!, speak goodness of marriage Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANGRY ADMONITION, by DOROTHY JANE DEUELL Poem Text First Line: Husband! I am just a woman! Last Line: "you're sure you watched the recipe?" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANNIVERSARIES, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: From now to then my way I make Last Line: And aids our feet when crossing. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANY LOVER TO HIS LASS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most people live a humdrum life Last Line: For we won't ever be like that! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANY ONE WILL DO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a maiden once, of certain age" Last Line: "why, any one, good lord, will do" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives 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 ANY WIFE TO ANY HUSBAND, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Last Line: And I wake saved. -- and yet it will not be! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations ARGUING BARTUSIAK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea is, the marriage still exists Subject(s): Marriage; Separation; Fidelity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Faithfulness; Constancy ARRIVAL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across a thousand miles of sea Last Line: To thee, dear haven of my heart, and I no more will roam. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waxen taper faintly gleamed Last Line: His quiet vigil kept. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Marriage; Sleep; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASOLANDO: MUCKLE-MOUTH MEG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frowned the laird on the lord: 'so, red-handed I catch thee?' Last Line: "to muckle-mouth meg in good earnest!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Marriage; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASOLANDO: WHICH?, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, the three court-ladies began Last Line: "seems terribly like what perhaps gains god's preference." Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A BRIDAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you paced forth, to await maternity Last Line: If the race all such sovereign types unknows. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A COUNTRY WEDDING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring roses, youths, red roses, with full hands Last Line: Bring lilies, maidens, snow-white, delicate. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A HASTY WEDDING; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hours be years the twain are blest Last Line: For now they solace swift desire. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT BURPHAM, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: A when a maid awakes at matin toll Last Line: For news of absent love's imperial wing. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT LEEDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies my wife Last Line: Hallelujee! Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives 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 END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips AT THE END-OF-SCHOOL PARTY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have our old cat? She is a very beautiful cat. She is Last Line: To me, she doesn't know me any more. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 19, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, resembling beauty's trefoil Last Line: With such tenderness, herodias? Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ATTENTION OF HYMEN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atheist bride is dressed in blue Subject(s): Marriage; Jews; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Judaism AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUGURIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is erroneous Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AULD ROBIN THE LAIRD, by ALEXANDER MACLAGGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld robin, the laird, thocht o' changin' his life Last Line: "very weel, sir,"" quo' tibby, ""sae let it be!" Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of writing many books there is no end Last Line: Deliver us from evil, let us pray. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 2, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Times followed one another. Came a morn Last Line: Except through swirl of spray and all that roar. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day thou girdest up thy loins thyself Last Line: When they two had their meeting after death. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 4, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met still sooner. 'twas a year from thence Last Line: If that's your way, poor insect.' that's your way! Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 5, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aurora leigh, be humble. Shall I hope Last Line: And would not interrupt your life with ours. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The english have a scornful insular way Last Line: Which angels were too weak to roll away. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 7, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman's motive? Shall we daub ourselves Last Line: Dissolving slowly, slowly, until lost. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 8, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One eve it happened, when I sat alone Last Line: Much rather than I read it. Thus it ran. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 9, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even thus. I pause to write it out at length Last Line: The rest in order: -- last, an amethyst.' Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BAD COOKING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it roughens true love's course, and Last Line: Bills? Bad cooking. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements 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 BALLAD OF A BRIDAL, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fill me flagons full and fair Last Line: "not half so dear as I!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Marriage; Socialism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BALLAD OF THE MONKLAND COTTAR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's no a tale o' luve I sing Last Line: Was never ance forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Fathers; Livingstone, David (1813-1873); Marriage; Prisons & Prisoners; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts BALLAD WRITTEN FOR A BRIDEGROOM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At daybreak, when the falcon claps his wings Last Line: This is the end for which we twain are met. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLADE OF PENTECOST, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: On high pentecost I found Last Line: With a rose on either syde. Subject(s): Holidays; Hope; Love; Marriage; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALTA; GYPSY-SONG FO TRANSLYVANIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave balta clasped me to his breast Last Line: And lo! 'twas balta brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Gypsies; Love; Marriage; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BARLEY BROTH, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If tempers were put up to seale Last Line: A wretched or a happy weyfe! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BARRIERS, by ELLINOR L. NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: O, I would never, never dare Last Line: Out from her heart, leaving it bare. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Relationships; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BASHFUL GLEESON, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: From her home beyond the river in the parting of the hills Last Line: Anyhow, they're three years married, and he isn't bashful now. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Bashfulness; Fire; Heroism; Love; Marriage; Shyness; Heroes; Heroines; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BECAUSE, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet nea! For your lovely sake Last Line: And a chaise and four to dover. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BEHIND TIME, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More coal, bill,' he said, and he held his watch to the / light of the glowing Last Line: Feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BERTHA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She seem'd so gentle, she seem'd so good Last Line: May pass through her confinement scatheless. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BEST DAYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two days are the best of a man's wedded life Last Line: The days when he marries and buries his wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives BETHROTHAL AND WEDLOCK; EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth the artist voweth lover's vows Last Line: As when he craved some boon and she was coy! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BETWEEN A CONTRACTOR AND HIS WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a good day's work, two contracts made" Last Line: "I'll think of what must soon approach, / and fit myself to fit a coach" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;marriage;trade; Weddings;husbands;wives BETWEEN TWO LOVES, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I gotta love for angela Last Line: So w'at I gona do? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Variant Title(s): I Can No Marry Both O' Dem Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BILL BROWN, by E. S. SORENSON Poem Text First Line: I met bill brown on the prospect track Last Line: Astride of a camel cow. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bless her dear little heart!' said my mate, and he pointed out to me Last Line: "the wheel!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BLUE NORTHER, by ISAAC W. WADE Poem Text First Line: Alone and self-imprisoned there, the town Last Line: To make them wish they were in hammond's place. Subject(s): Friendship; Marriage; Seasons; Towns; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLUE-BEARD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fadlallah: good neighbour, be quiet! - my word is a law Last Line: But 'tis always unlucky to marry thirteen! Subject(s): Duplicity; Islam; Marriage; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: A MASQUE OF BIGOTRY, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bluebeard of this drama, you must know Last Line: He was as one might say a self-made widower. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOB, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bob had a nigger woman Last Line: For seven more she cried! ... Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Murder; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOLEROS 14, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night enters the plaza, step by step, in the singular Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology BORGIA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no borgia venom; gandia fell Last Line: The fields of christendom a borgian bull. Subject(s): Borgia, Lucrezia [lucretia] (1480-1519); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOY JOHNNY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you'll busk you as a bride Last Line: O boy johnny.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDAL BALLAD, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ring is on my hand Last Line: May not be happy now. Subject(s): Marriage; Regret; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDAL EVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, my heart, my heart, good-night Last Line: To keep the lily there. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDAL FLOWERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bind the white orange-flowers in her hair Last Line: The bride and morning bathe their wreath with tears Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Omens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDAL SERENADE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, thou sittest alone above Last Line: I'll bless thee dying at the door. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDE AND GROOM, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: The river lies Last Line: The tide. . . . Subject(s): Marriage; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDE'S MOTHER, by CHRISTIE LUND Poem Text First Line: They see you as a woman, as a bride Last Line: Within my heart. Forgive me that I weep. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDEGROOM, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man I shall beget tomorrow Last Line: Can I then be free? Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism BUCK O' KINGWATTER, by ROBERT ANDERSON OF CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: When I was single, I rid a fine nag Last Line: Sing oh! The lasses ... Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think the ending can be right Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BY CANDLE'S LIGHT A BEDOUIN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say 'tree' say 'on the hill.' say 'game' say it is 'over'. Say (turning to Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BY PARCELS POST, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my love a parcel Last Line: Eight-and-twenty years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Marriage; Postal Service; Seasons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen CANDLELIGHT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing the porch in the hazy dusk Last Line: Had granted its permission Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CANTO AMOR, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream in a dream the heavy soul somewhere Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CASSANDER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cassander! O cassander!' - her mother's voice seems cle'r Last Line: "cassander! O cassander!"" jes' a-callin' thataway." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Mothers; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CATHARINA: SECOND PART; ON HER MARRIAGE TO GEORGE COURTENAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe it or not, as you chuse Last Line: How soon I can make her a mother Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CAUTIOUS ALICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So good a wife doth lissy make Last Line: She with his brethren only lieth. Subject(s): Marriage; Praise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CEYX AND ALCYONE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prodigies affect the pious prince Last Line: And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CH'IN CHIA'S WIFE'S REPLY, by MRS. CH'IN CHIA Poem Text First Line: My poor body is alas unworthy Last Line: The tears fall down and wet my skirt. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Sickness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved, through years of happiness Last Line: Of my whole another gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first and my second, united, display Last Line: And his successor came into office next morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHESTNUT IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house, the Last Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house for wooing and for wedding. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Chestnut Trees; Home; Love; Marriage; May (month); Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHOICE OF A WIFE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fluttering lovers, giddy boys Last Line: And made the eye proclaim the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet the fates befriend her! Last Line: I'd gladly give -- myself! Subject(s): Christmas; Marriage; Nativity, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CLIMBS A TOWER AS IN A TALE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moment hangs from a mouth. I love you christ the husband but trees Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLERIDGE CROSSING THE PLAIN OF JARS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gypsies carry sacks of walnuts out of groves Last Line: Was in her eyes like a widow's soul. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Gypsies; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Snow; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLIN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle maid, consent to be Last Line: Quit for these thy liberty. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLLISION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wind and change Last Line: A hand of leaves into dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Healing; Marriage; Cures; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision." Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism COMFORT IN AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore starts my bosom's lord? Last Line: "to wrap around my head!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Comfort; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery COMMON LAW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Common law you are always on your waking alarm by communal Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COMPLAINT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem 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 COMPOSED ON THE EVE OF THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay Last Line: To her indulgent lord become more dear. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONJUGI CARISSIMAE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marble fragment, freed at last Last Line: "conjugi carissimae." Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Past; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONJURGIUM NON CONJURGIUM; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dick leads, it is known, with his vixenish wife Last Line: Should surely be written the conjurgal state! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONNUBIAL COMPANY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my dear, what makes you always yawn?" Last Line: And when alone I'm weary Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives CONNUNII FLORES, OR THE WELL-WISHES AT WEDDINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the temple to your home Last Line: The ravens yeares, go hence more ripe then old. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONSTANCY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's bereaved, I'm sorely grieved Last Line: The force of lethe's wave. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement CONTEMPLATIONS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time now past in [or, is] the autumnal tide Last Line: Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness CONTEST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was unarmed, still the cintest was fair Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONTRASTED SCENES FROM REAL LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand Last Line: Thy potent aidbe still the outcast's friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes COPE'S RULE, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: According to edward drinker cope, Subject(s): Size & Shape; Marriage; Survival; Height; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CORYDON'S LAMENT AND RESOLUTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wept and I have sighed Last Line: Nor one tear for chloe shed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Love; Marriage; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUNSEL UPON MARRIAGE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My master bukton, when of christ our king Last Line: In fredam; for ful hard is to be bonde. Variant Title(s): Lenvoy De Chaucer A Bukton Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUNTRY MARRIAGE, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They married out of school Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives COUPLE (FOR ISABEL ARCHER), by ROSANNA WARREN Poem 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 COURAGE, by BERNETTA L. ISBELL Poem Text First Line: They say she lives a sinful life Last Line: I'm married to bob. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COURTSHIP, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced, they say, upon a day Last Line: As all their friends and neighbours know Subject(s): Courtship; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COURTSHIP [AND MATRIMONY], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fairest of earth! If thou wilt hear my vow Last Line: "confound those children, but I'll make them quiet" Subject(s): Courtship;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives COUSIN AGGIE: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seal of sixty summers now Last Line: If gone before, we soon shall meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips CRAZY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've said that he and I had been crazy Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CROWNED AND WEDDED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When last before her people's face her own fair face she bent Last Line: The blessings happy peasants have, be thine, o crowned queen!' Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 CUPID ACQUITTED, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever jove renews mankind Last Line: And praywhat answer shall they make? Subject(s): Cupid; Jupiter (god); Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roseate darling Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DALLOW'S BLUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An autumn pall of heat hung sultrily over Last Line: And time swept on and dallow's landing forgot. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Marriage; Prostitution; Seasons; Fall; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Harlots; Whores; Brothels DANCE FIGURE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark eyed, / o woman of my dreams Subject(s): Marriage; Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DARBY AND JOAN, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darby dear, we are old and gray Last Line: Always the same to your old wife joan. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DARK O' NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In some places a woman would marry a woman which torques the Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime DAYS OF '74, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the future then but affirmation Last Line: To that first word repeated all night long Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DE AMICITIIS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though care and strife Last Line: Without a fear my wife shall chide me! Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEAR MRS. BERRIGAN, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm Last Line: Dear mrs. Berrigan: Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Marriage; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEATH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are as maidens one and all Last Line: A quiet household life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DECEMBER AND MAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said nestor, to his pretty wife, quite sorrowful one day Last Line: "I thank ye, sir, for telling me -- for now I'll grieve the more!" Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEDICATION OF THE FIRST SONNETS TO A FRIEND ..., by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could wish my numbers fell Last Line: And outlive the last farewell. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DIAL-THOUGHTS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee at daybreak still Last Line: But in thy breath from heaven above. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Loss; Love; Marriage; Memory; Thought; Sunrise; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SQUEAMISH COTTING MECHANIC AND HIS WIFE, by EDWARD WARD Poem Text First Line: Is the fish ready? You're a tedious while Last Line: When heaven knows I do but gull the fool. Subject(s): Conversation; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DIRGE AND HYMENAL, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Woe! This is death's hour Last Line: Woe! Woe! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Happiness; Marriage; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DISSOLVE IN SLOW MOTION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you watch a marriage / dissolve, in slow motion Last Line: It all gets thrown away Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOCTOR -., by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rabbi told me: on the day allowed Last Line: I tell it, as the rabbi told it me. Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Hell; Physicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Doctors DOLCINO TO MARGARET, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world goes up and the world goes down Last Line: To its work in the morning gay. Variant Title(s): Hey, Nonny!;song Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: ARCHIBALD LOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archibald lowell, owner of the times Last Line: And brings them to the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; News; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: GREGORY WENNER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory wenner's brother married the mother Last Line: A secret long concealed: -- Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Marriage; Passion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry murray, father of elenor murray Last Line: The while she spoke: Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Marriage; Youth; Dead, The; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: JOHN SCOFIELD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see I worked for arthur fouche, he said Last Line: Spoke to them in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: LOVERIDGE CHASE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the secret of the death of elenor Last Line: Of elenor murray and their days at nice: Subject(s): Death; Letters; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think, she said at first / my daughter did not kill herself. I'm sure Last Line: And talk about the case. Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Life; Marriage; Suicide; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merival, of a mother fair and good Last Line: Tells merival this story: Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Undertakers; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE MAJOR AND ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray and petain, the major Last Line: "I have a sorrow, too, as deep as yours." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the nuptial curtain bright' Last Line: And bore his lamp away. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your wife left before you woke Last Line: Burns less brightly. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The DOMESTICS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've had about a thousand maids, who Last Line: For clarence, william, stephen, fred, adolphus, james and harry. Subject(s): Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOROTHY'S DOWER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest dorothy,' said john Last Line: "went for cigars and brandy!" Subject(s): Marriage; Money; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism DOVECOTT MILL: 11. WEDDED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the village church where a child she was led Last Line: And powders her pretty face and lips. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DREAM OF LIGHT IN THE SHADE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I am married I spend Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DRESSING THE BRIDE (A FRAGMENT), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, after bath, the slave-girls brought Last Line: Trembled with its imprisoned fire! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman named earlene Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 26. THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vested priest before the altar stands Last Line: Weep not, meek bride! Uplift thy timid brow. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ED, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ed was in love with a cocktail waitress Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EFFIE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was wearin' awa'! She was wearin' awa'! Last Line: The dear lassie dwells wi' the angels o' licht. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EGON SCHIELE'S WIFE, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: More since her illness he tried to think of her not purely as a wife Subject(s): Schiele, Egon (1891-1918); Marriage; Models; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEGY, by JOHN MACLAURIN Poem Text First Line: Nor hammond's love nor shenstone's was sincere Last Line: A country-wedding shall thy hopes deprive. Alternate Author Name(s): Dreghorn, Lord Subject(s): Household Employees; Love - Cultural Differences; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEGY FOR MY HUSBAND, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was there is no longer there: Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism ENVY AND FORTUNE; A TALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says envy to fortune 'soft, soft, madame flirt!' Last Line: And garrick next season will certainly burst her. Subject(s): Envy; Fortune; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tom prais'd his friend (who changed his state) Last Line: Twill be the end of mine Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives EPIGRAM ON SAID OCCASION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, hadst thou but spar'd his life Last Line: Thou'se get the saul o'boot. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPILOGUE, by FRANCES TALBOT Poem Text First Line: And must I then -- the fatal knot once tied Last Line: To crown our triumph as the curtain falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Morley, Countess Of Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism EPILOGUE TO ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE,' DESIGNED FOR MRS. OLDFIELD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prodigious this! The frail-one of our play Last Line: Come here in crowds, and stare the strumpet down. Subject(s): Marriage; Oldfield, Anne (1683-1730); Plays & Playwrights; Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPISODE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman passes by an apartment house Last Line: From room to room. Variant Title(s): Story Subject(s): Marriage; Story-telling; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPISTLE FROM MRS. YONGE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Think not this paper comes with vain pretense Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy EPISTLE TO CLEMENA. OCCASIONED BY AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE AUTHOR, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Though you my resolution still accuse / and for misanthropy condemn the muse Last Line: But harder yet an honest man to choose. Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my wife is dead, and here she lies" Last Line: "nobody knows, and nobody cares" Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives EPITAPH FOR FIRE AND POWER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You might as well haul up Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH ON [OR INTENED FOR] HIS WIFE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Last Line: Now she's at rest. And so am I. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May! Be thou never graced with birds that sing Last Line: Mine only died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH: M.M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who call her mother and who calls her wife Last Line: Look on her grave and see not death but life. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMENT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other weddings are so shrewd on the sofa, short Subject(s): Love - Unrquited; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You left me gasping on the shore Last Line: A milky flank, a drowned, reviving face. Subject(s): Marriage; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean; Feminism 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: 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 RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come virgin tapers of pure waxe Last Line: Sweet'st in the close. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMIUM, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is here, urania's son Last Line: Harnessed angels, hand on sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMIUM, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This body of my mother, pierced by me Last Line: My sister, heralded by no moan, no sound. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Marriage; Parents; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood 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 EPITHALAMIUM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The marriage bells have rung their peal Last Line: Here's tosuccess to her successor! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Wedding Song; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium EQUINOX 1980, by PETER DAVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the stillness after dawn we two Subject(s): Marriage; 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 EVE OF THE BRIDAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! It has come; the strange, o'ermastering hour Last Line: And golden gloom and tender silence meet. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVEN EVE 'N' ADAM, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Till we fight again. Come on and kiss me, dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVEN KEEL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking you want to secure 'on an even keel' is not enough in this Last Line: And then be sacrificed the next day to a tutelary deity with your feather headdress on Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EXPECTATION, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fleet wheels had whirled for us, deep hedge-rows threading Last Line: Swooped startled, as a bell began totoll. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE WOLF, THE SHEEP, AND THE LAMB, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Duty demands the parent's voice Last Line: Beneath his jaws the victim dies. Subject(s): Fables; Lambs; Marriage; Sheep; Wolves; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FACT VERSUS FANCY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When last I strolled these ways with grace Last Line: His circumstances! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wealth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes FAITH AND HOPE, by REMBRANDT PEALE Poem Text First Line: O, don't be sorrowful, darling! Last Line: Is the gate that leads to him. Variant Title(s): Don't Be Sorrowful Darling Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FALSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False! Good god, I am dreaming! Last Line: I walk in the dark alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FAMILY ROMANCE, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister once of weeds & a dark water that held still Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Failure; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FARE THEE WELL, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our banns be published like a tax Last Line: "oh now -- or fare thee well!"" -- theodosius." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FEW HAPPY MATCHES, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, mighty love, and teach my song Last Line: And cupids yoke the doves. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIE ON LOVE, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, fie on foolish love! It not befits Last Line: To marry is to make it ten times worse. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST MARRIAGE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made it cross country Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Cancer (disease); Reconciliation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST WIFE TO THE SECOND, by GLENNA MORRIS CLEVENGER Poem Text First Line: All's fair! My dear Last Line: Bearing a mortal wound. Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FLAME OR FLAMING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was to be a day to old flames a day dedicated to the flaming of way Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A BRIDE WHO DIED ON HER WEDDING DAY, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That morn which saw me made a bride Last Line: Supply'd the epithalamie. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Variant Title(s): Upon A Maid That Dyed The Day She Was Marryed Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A MARRIAGE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gives most dangerous sight Last Line: In its own solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot celebrate with doleful music Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR FRAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She packs the flower beds with leaves Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The FOR GOODNESS' SAK!, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: For goodness' sak'! She say to me Last Line: "for goodness' sak'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR J.W., ON HIS MARRIAGE IN THE FAITH, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here and in this time of the second caesar Subject(s): Marriage; Catholicism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR JOEL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some simple Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR MY HUSBAND, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a dream Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR RICHER, FOR POORER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times over, since that day Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Marriage; Aging; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR SOMEBODY'S MARRIAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All night in a toughtful Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FORGOTTEN, by CORA L. BUTTERFIELD Poem Text First Line: Her pathway was strewn with rose petals Last Line: And gone the love he bestowed. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FORGOTTEN FLOWERS TO A BRIDE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were left behind, but we would not stay Last Line: For an eden-wreath to thy love and thee. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FRAGMENT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pilgrim weary, toil-subdued Last Line: Appear'd to feel alarm, and fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs FREEDOM OF LOVE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife with the hair of a wood fire Last Line: My wife with eyes of water-level of level of air earth and fire Subject(s): Love – Marital; Wives FRIAR BACON: THE DEAD WIFE SOON FORGOTTEN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, serlsby, is thy wife so / lately dead? Last Line: ('friar bacon,' xiii., p. 70.) Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FULFILLMENT SURPASSING, by HELEN REGAN SKILLERN Poem Text First Line: They taught her marriage was a veil Last Line: In the halo round a child. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GARDENS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my walled california patio Last Line: Speaks on this bell's voice. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Memory; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENRE: INTERIOR, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Some day I shall hope to come again and find / you Last Line: Light at the chatter of your youngest boy. Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GEORDIE'S MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM FINLAYSON Poem Text First Line: O' ken ye that geordie and jean Last Line: As naebody witness'd their beddin'! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leaving hagen the night came on Last Line: So amen to my invocation! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Westphalia, Germany; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GETTING TO KNOW YOU, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept into one another Last Line: We were relative strangers. Subject(s): Marriage; Retrospection; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GHOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GIANTS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's old parents in the desert on folding chairs Last Line: To each memory station -- pause, hold, mute, flash. Subject(s): Abandonment; Lies; Marriage; Quarrels; Secrets; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements GIVE BACK, GIVE BACK, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I married him for length Last Line: At the long entrance of the children. Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Marriage; Pleasure; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GLASS HYMEN RITE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & smash a glass Last Line: O smash the glass Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOOD ADVICE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease thy blushes and thy sorrow Last Line: And on earth to peace attain. Subject(s): Advice; Grief; Marriage; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOOD LUCK, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter, be the rich man's wife, / provided then thou'll be for life Last Line: "how small a price brides bring!" Subject(s): Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes GOODWIFE PLAYING THE VIRGINALS; AFTER A PAINTING BY DE WITTE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman's hands are hungry birds Last Line: The man is trapped by the open door. Subject(s): Housewives; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GRACE'S CHOICE, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw fair-featured grace Last Line: But wealth andlooks and pedigree. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beauty; Marriage; Wealth; Heritage; Heredity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HA! HA!, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer suns are glancing Last Line: Ha! Ha! Ha! Malgherita! Malgherita! Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HALF-EATEN, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fortune-teller told me I was going to Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Cougars; Marriage; Palmistry; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HARK, HARK! O'ER THE PLAINS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark! O'er the plains how the merry bells Last Line: O then let me die an old maid. Subject(s): Marriage; Spinsters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Old Maids HARMONY IN THE BOUDOIR, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After years of marriage, he stands at the foot of the bed and Subject(s): Marriage; Nothingness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem 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 HAVE YOU SEEN MY MISSUS?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you've heard of my children, two, seeking for each other?" Last Line: Till I tumble into bed - it's then I miss my missus Subject(s): Kisses;marriage;obesity; Weddings;husbands;wives 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 SURE JOY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Image of tall bed. Grow weak. Groan. Her cliche. Her japanese robe Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HERMOTIMUS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber? Last Line: Not in sleep, but death, their mistress lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The HEURISTICALLY SPEAKING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meant to be proud meant to be astonished & full of surprise at the Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 1. A PARABLE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I longed for rest, and some one spoke me fair Last Line: And shivered there, an alien in that place. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 5. FACE TO FACE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gazest in mine eyes and thine are wet Last Line: Thou wilt not? -- we will face her, -- I and thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIS WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But it was right that she / looked back Last Line: She could taste the salt. Subject(s): Lot (bible); Marriage; Salt; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIS WIFE, TO ATLAS -- (OR ANY MAN OF AFFAIRS), by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of the world upon your back Last Line: Bearing the worldand you, tooon my heart! Subject(s): Atlas (mythology); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOLY MATRIMONY, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice that breath'd o'er eden Last Line: With christ's own bride they rise. Amen. Variant Title(s): Epithalamium Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology HOME AND WIFE, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where in this world, where strife and guile abound Last Line: And god, approving, smile on all thy ways. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOME MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin, she says, is the natural order Last Line: As she raises a glove full of roses. Subject(s): Marriage; Ruins; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating HONEYMOON CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, by ANGELA KRUEGER Poem Text First Line: Two by two they enter the land of honeymoon Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOW GIRL WAS TOO RECKLESS OF GRAMMAR, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda maud mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin Last Line: Speech is silver and it never should be free! Subject(s): Bodies; Grammar; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOW IT HAPPENED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got to thinkin' of her - both her parunts dead and gone Last Line: So I got to thinkin' of her -- and -- it happened thataway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): So I Got To Thinkin' Of Her Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Thought; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking HOW PADDY GOT 'UNDER GOVERNMENT', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A place under government Last Line: "he married soon a scolding wife, / and thus his wish was granted" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While other women's husbands ride Last Line: We'll trudge along and sweetly talk Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: H. Oh! With what woes am I oppressed! Last Line: W. You'll hardly laugh before you die. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh kiss me once before I go Last Line: "I would have kissed him now." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast Last Line: God! How men lie, when driven to the wall!) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBANDS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think no woman really knows Last Line: You lead him home to god at last. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HYMENEAL RETROSPECTIONS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O kate! My dear partner, through joy and through strife Last Line: "god bless you, dear, good-night!" Subject(s): Aging; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I DON'T GO SHEARING NOW, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: So you're off to riverina, where the sun is shining clear Last Line: The rheumatism takes me, so I don't go shearing now. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Memory; Sheep; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I GO BACK TO MAY 1937, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges Subject(s): Parents; Marriage; Failure; Parenthood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I MARRIED YOU, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War IA'S SONG, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long before day I left my father's cottage Last Line: Softly, my arm holding his waist, will kiss himah, when? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Marriage; Waiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IAMBIC FEET CONSIDERED AS HONORABLE SCARS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see these little scars? That's where my wife Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Bears; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF, by H. C. DODGE Poem Text First Line: If a man could live a thousand years Last Line: The woman whom he gets. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF EVER THERE WAS ONE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She could tell he loved her. He wanted her there Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Gentility; Sex; Desire; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF I PROPOSE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I propose a walk, a ride Last Line: If I propose. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a wife 'at taught school I would go Last Line: Enny way, what would you do? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Marriage; Suicide; Teaching & Teachers; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Educators; Professors; Journeys; Trips 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 FOR IT, by SOMERVILLE GIBNEY Poem Text First Line: I rose betimes, and donned a suit Last Line: That I was married. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN MAXIMUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woulds't thou be free? I think it not indeed Last Line: Then, maximus, then first shalt thou be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Rome, Italy; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN MEMORIAM: W.L.W., by PEARL RANDALL WASSON Poem Text First Line: I like to think of you as winging forth Last Line: And lead me onward through the darkening night. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ELIZABETH .. WHO DECEASED 1665, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content Last Line: Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN, 23 JUNE, 1659, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had eight birds hatched in one nest Last Line: I happy am, if well with you. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN THE EVENING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening of our days Last Line: In the evening of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Evening; Kisses; Marriage; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE FORTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would never say I feel like a million dollars, but I whistle Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Conduct Of Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE TAXI TO THE MRI, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I try to concentrate on the weather. Everything Subject(s): Marriage; Illness; Anxiety; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE, IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn it, honey, neither one of us Last Line: With some kind of kick in the tail Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN TIME OF DANGER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now far be heavy dreams; you hateful sprites Last Line: Confirmed the judgements of their lord the king. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 INDEED, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married a girl in the summer who slept on the beach Last Line: To silence, to you. It is a good one. Subject(s): Change; Marriage; Slavery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs INTEGUMENT, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: She wears a long tea-gown of dim flesh-colored crepe Last Line: On the startled skin of a woman. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ISTHMIAN ODES: 8. THR MARRIAGE OF THETIS, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor were the courts divine Last Line: To crown a brave man dead with strains of heavenly fire. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ditch a king marry another king. Switch a ring marry another ring Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JANUARY AND MAY, OR THE MERCHANT'S TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There liv'd in lombardy, as author's write Last Line: To be so well deluded by their wives. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts JEZEBEL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song thy made for jezebel Last Line: By the wall of jezreel. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JIM'S WHIP, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, there it hangs upon the wall Last Line: And thinking of me still. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Whips; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOB'S WIFE, A TWENTIETH-CENTURY CASTING SCRIPT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job's wife, bereft, without Last Line: And it was not of god they spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOHN AND I, by MRS. JOHN MCELROY Poem Text First Line: We have jogged along together Last Line: John and I. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 JOY AND SORROW MIX'D TOGETHER, by RICHARD CLIMSALL Poem Text First Line: Hang sorrow! Let's cast away care Last Line: That I shall be married to-morrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Climsell, Richard; Crimsell, Richard Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JUST STARTING OUT, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so you're married - keepin' house! Last Line: As two young folks just startin' out. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KALEIDOSCOPE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember sex before my husband Last Line: Crowded against our window, shivering. Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KATHARINE JOHNSTONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a may, and a weel-far'd may" Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships;marriage; Male-female Relations;weddings;husbands;wives KING ARTHUR, OR THE BRITISH WORTHY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had today a dozen billet-doux Last Line: Shall be my favourite gallant to-day. Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Marriage; Opera; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KING SOLOMON SINGS OF WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been lord and spouse to many women Last Line: Instead comes night -- and pharaoh's daughter. Selah. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KISSING AGAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing again, after a long drought of Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAMENT OF HSI-CHUN, by HSI-CHUN Poem Text First Line: My people have married me Last Line: And could fly to my old home! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Lament; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAODAMIA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sacrifice before the rising morn Last Line: A constant interchange of growth and blight! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 GOES ON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wade ross turned from vesta his wife to the window Last Line: On the beach-curve by a flood-tide spent and forgotten. Subject(s): Grief; Guilt; Life; Love; Marriage; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE IN A LOVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escape me? Never Last Line: Removed! Subject(s): Marriage; 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 LINES (1), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves came up a long, wide aisle Last Line: Will they ever forget the low, white gate? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 LONGING FOR HEAVEN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As weary pilgrim now at rest Last Line: Then come, deare bridgrome, come away! Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness LOVE, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are who say the lover's heart Last Line: And mingle into one? Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE 2, by RACHEL HADAS Poem 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 AND A QUESTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger came to the door at eve Last Line: The bridegroom wished he knew. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE AND MARRIAGE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Still the question I must parry Last Line: If we're by compulsion blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE FOR A HAND, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white, Subject(s): Marriage; Hands; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE IN A LIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Room after room / I hunt the house through Last Line: Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune! Subject(s): Houses; Mirrors; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE IS FOR EVERMORE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had thought to bury my love too deep for tears Last Line: In the heart of a woman by love forsaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A good wife rose from her bed one morn Last Line: "tis not so sweet to labor for those we love, / it's not strange that maids will wed!" Subject(s): Home;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives 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 LOVE, WHOSE MONTH WAS EVER MAY, by ULRICH VON LICHTENSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When with may the air is sweet Last Line: Love inconstant I forbear. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LUCY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, tho' thy song be sweet Last Line: A single life and liberty. Subject(s): Doubt; Marriage; Single People; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 21, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flutes and fiddles are sounding Last Line: And weeping many a tear. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAC'S HALF-CASTE, by E. S. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: Mac's half-caste wife was all the talk Last Line: And back to her old wild haunts go. Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Betrayal; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAGNOLIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mayor, in order to marry us, borrowed Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAIDEN NAME, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marrying left your maiden name disused Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAIRE BAN ASTOR (FAIR MARY, MY TREASURE), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In a valley far away Last Line: Of my maire bhan a stoir. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAKING THE BED, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her regimen's inviolate. They squabble Last Line: Side smoothing the fold of sheet over blanket. Subject(s): Marriage; Tourists; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MAN AND WIFE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tamed by miltown, we lie on mother's bed Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Man And Wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MARIANSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Marianson, my beauteous dame" Subject(s): Anger;death;jealousy;marriage;unfaithfulness; "dead, The;weddings;husbands;wives;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy; MARIE MIGNOT, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss marie mignot was a nice little maid Last Line: But the mother of half-a-score little lagardies. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Greed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Avarice; Cupidity MARILINE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the wheel plied mariline Last Line: To the brow of mariline. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nature; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARKS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband gives me an a Subject(s): Judgments; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man may live thrice nestor's life Last Line: To keep me free from either ill Variant Title(s): Against Women Either Good Or Bad Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives MARRIAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That wife is best (as prudent men have found) Last Line: A fellow-worker faithful to the end Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a man has married a wife Last Line: Glued together Variant Title(s): "when A Man Has Married A Wife, He Finds Out Whether""; Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love springs as lightly from the human heart Last Line: By which, while yet on earth, we enter heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem 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 JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a soaring pine-tree Last Line: The creeper choked the pine. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going my way of old Last Line: Night after night. Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology MARRIAGE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This institution, / perhaps one should say enterprise Last Line: "the hand in the breast-pocket." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE (1), by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No things, my laches, are so close akin Last Line: If you look carefully, as man and woman. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE (2), by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marriage, if we look honestly at the truth Last Line: Is evil, but a necessary evil. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MARRIAGE COUNSEL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why marry ogre Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE GHAZAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hammering & drifting. Sea wrack. Cast upon & cast out Last Line: In an arc when she sat & they built a boat together. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE IN TWO MOODS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love that's loved from day to day Last Line: Love, too, shall be perfected. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No word! No sound! But yet a solemn rite Last Line: Is the free breath of every happy soul. Subject(s): Deafness; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE SONG; WITH COMMENTARY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We begin with the osprey who cries, 'clang, clang!' Last Line: "snow-breasted, and transfixed in abstract love." Subject(s): Birds; China; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MARRIAGE UNEQUAL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that even in a heavenly marriage Last Line: Whilst cupid evermore remains the child. Subject(s): Cupid; Marriage; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation Last Line: I humbly cast myself upon the city. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists; Stage Life MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how reformed and quiet we are grown Last Line: T' oblige the town, the city, and the court. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists MARRIAGE: A WORD TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep your marriage brimming Variant Title(s): Advice Subject(s): Life Change Events; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIED, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: Dining with him at home, she looked between Last Line: Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. Subject(s): Boredom; Emptiness; Marriage; Nothingness; Ennui; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids MARRIED BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't want it, you wanted it Subject(s): Marriage; Reality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MARRY FOR LOVE, by SANDY RODGER Poem Text First Line: When I and my jenny thegither were tied Last Line: Wha married for love, and wha wrought for siller? Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MARY LEE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails ye, bonnie mary lee? Last Line: Kin' jamie's faithfu' wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARY'S WEDDING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are to be married, mary Last Line: Brimming for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARZO PAZZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mad march, with the wind in his wings wide-spread Last Line: Mad march. Subject(s): April; March (month); Marriage; Roundels; 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 DUET, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we first were man and wife Last Line: Let us say no more about it, mr. (mrs.) john prevot. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 6. TO ANY WIFE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All right, I've done something I shouldn't Last Line: Just what all the fuss was about? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Matrimony, --is it bliss Last Line: Matrimony to the wise. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONY, by JOHN WILLIAMS (1761-1818) Poem Text First Line: Tis an act of the priest to give patience a test Last Line: Where the ploughshares are hot, and your faith is not real. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAUDE CLARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the church she followed them Last Line: Me best of all, maude clare.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAUREEN ASHORE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely wife, who yestermorn didst bring Last Line: 08/12/09 Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Grief; Love; Marriage; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAY JANET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up, stand up, thou may janet Last Line: And a gold flag overhead. Subject(s): Marriage; Sea; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean 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 MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Last Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MINDEN HOUSE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl Last Line: There's now noo mwore a fanny deäne. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housekeeping; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MIRRORS OF MAIN STREET, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: In our town, as everywhere Last Line: "main street's a ""one-way"" thoroughfare." Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MIS' SMITH, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day she hurried to get through Last Line: "I reckon." Subject(s): Desire; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MARRIAGE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn - a more auspicious one! Last Line: Of opulence end in breaking! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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: 50, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus piteously love closed what he begat Last Line: To throw that faint thin line upon the shore! Variant Title(s): "thus Piteously Love Closed What He Begat""; Subject(s): Divorce; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOMENTOS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Last Line: In some more cheerful room. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Memory; Time; Grief; Marriage; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morag of the glen was fey Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most like an arch - an entrance which upholds Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOTHER GRACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother-in-law is absolute tyrannical law is dietary law is the vittles on Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MR. AND MRS. JACK SPRAT IN THE KITCHEN, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About half a box Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Women's Rights; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MRS. MCHUGH, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: He wrought in the field through the length av the day Last Line: An' him trimmin' the twist av a hedge! Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Marriage; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness MUTATIS MUTANDIS, by MARGARET VAN S. RICE Poem Text First Line: By care and strife Last Line: Down where (to say the least) it's summer. Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MUTUAL FOREBEARANCE NECESSARY TO ... THE MARRIED STATE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady thus addressed her spouse Last Line: Or soon expels him if it is. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY AIN WIFE, by ALEXANDER LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wadna gi'e my ain wife Last Line: For ony wife I see. Alternate Author Name(s): Laing Of Brechin, Alexander Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes Last Line: My human snake, my angeline! Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers 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 BURIAL PLACE, by THOMAS DERMODY Poem Text First Line: Ah me! And must I like the tenant lie Last Line: He cries, 'though mute, there is a poet here!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 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 FIRST WOMERN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my first womern Last Line: Was a year ago -- Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Spring; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MY HEART IS A LUTE, by ANNE LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that my heart is a lute, / whereon you have learn'd to play Last Line: Lest the strings should break, and the music be done. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne Subject(s): Lutes; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY HUSBAND TAKES SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ME, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's like coal in your stocking Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Self; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY HUSBANDS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I hear my husbands marching Last Line: New york, may, 1924. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 LITTLE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little wife's a world too sweet Last Line: For such a man as I am! Subject(s): Courage;marriage;trojan War;women; Valor;bravery;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 MOTHER, 1930, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, mom,' she wrote from tunis to fargo Last Line: Her secret refuge of remembrance. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips 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 SECOND MARRIAGE TO MY FIRST HUSBAND, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We married for acceptance: to stall the nagging Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY WIFE, by E. A. MANESS Poem Text First Line: My wife is still my sweetheart, dear Last Line: And name that path the love way route. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MY WIFE'S UPSTAIRS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MYSIE, AN AUL'-WARL', BUT OWER TRUE STORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wrocht her wark an' never lintit Last Line: Fause loons, beware! Sae en's my sang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NANCY LEE, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the wives as e'er you know Last Line: The sailor's wife his star shall be. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 37TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If e'er I take a wife, I will have one Last Line: Should only love, not dote on her perfection. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NELL AND JOHN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nell, given o'er by the doctor, was dying Last Line: When you lost your white heifer, and I my brown mare! Subject(s): Death; Loss; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NELL BARNES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They lived apart for three long years Last Line: It was for love she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEW TALE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The bells rang for a king inevitably winning Last Line: Under black roofs lonely spinners. No gold. No bride. Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOURS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I live, comme il faut Last Line: Their neighbours' faults and failings. Subject(s): London; Marriage; Neighbors; Peace; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you, o infant of my midnight thought! Last Line: Ah, well, some day you 'll be a married man. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Marriage; Parents; Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood NIKOS AT 42, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's like yesterday Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible); Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOCTURNE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothin' or everythin' it's got to be' Last Line: Nothin' to you, an' everythin' to me? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOT OURS THE VOWS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours the vows of such as plight Last Line: By faith and hope immortal. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 NUPTIAL SONG, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sigh, heart, and break not; rest lark, and wake not Last Line: Dawn enters; my love wakens; here is day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NUPTIALS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When noon-time comes the whistle blows Last Line: Hauled away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 22. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE FIFTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou tell'st me, barnzy, dawson hath a wife Last Line: Thine he hath, I grant; dawson hath a wife. Subject(s): Barnes, Barnabe (1569-1609); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, the queen of nymphs divine Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Marriage; Drinks & Drinking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wine ODE SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou magic lyre, whose fascinating sound Last Line: And warm our fainting souls with energy divine. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODE: TO GARRICK, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no; the left - hand box in blue Last Line: Unvisited by ranby. Subject(s): Dramatists; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Marriage; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Weddings; Husbands; Wives OFFICE PARTY: DISTAFF VIEW, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is in the deep freeze Last Line: Stylized beyond reality. Subject(s): Facades; Marriage; Office Employees; Appearances; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Clerks OH DEAR HOW I LONG TO GET MARRIED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a damsel so blooming and gay Last Line: "I am tired, etc" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives OH! THE MARRIAGE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The marriage, the marriage Last Line: Might envy my marriage to me. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OH, MY GOLDEN SLIPPERS AM LAID AWAY, by JAMES A. BLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Marriage; Shoes; Negroes; American Blacks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers OJISTOH, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ojistoh, I am she, the wife Last Line: ^1^ god, in the mohawk language. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Duplicity; Hate; Marriage; Native Americans - Women; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Squaws OLD AND NEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She went up the mountain to pluck wild herbs Last Line: I see that the new will not compare with the old Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives OLD BACHELOR BROTHER, by BRAD LEITHAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here from his prominent but thankfully Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OLD SLIPPERS, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: I had not thought until today Last Line: Why have I never told you so? Subject(s): Marriage; Mortality; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers OLD THINGS, by THOMAS T. BLEWETT Poem Text First Line: I love to smell old books Last Line: Fragments of dreams. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON A GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE, WHO DIED BOTH WITHIN A VERY FEW DAYS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy pair! Who had and have Last Line: The burial but the wedding be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON A SCOLD; EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here lies a woman, no man can deny it" Last Line: "you gently tread, for if she wake, she'll talk" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives 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 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 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 BEING ADVISED TO MARRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sir, you are prudent, good and wise" Last Line: A man should think on 't - all his life Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives ON HER WEDDING DAY, by MONICA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: If I could wish for you one wish today Last Line: More beautiful than in your wedding dress. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON HIS ENGAGEMENT TO BE MARRIED, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Hark! The clock strikes and finishes the cycle Last Line: u u 's. Subject(s): Farewell; Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON HIS WIFE, AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou need'st no tomb, my wife, for thou Last Line: Shall there be seen as in the book of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MARRIAGE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be married, but I'de have no wife Last Line: I would be married to a single life. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MARRIAGE, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy a thing were a wedding Last Line: Good faith, mr. Parson, excuse me from that! Variant Title(s): The Bachelor's Song: The Second Part Subject(s): Marriage; Mnemonics; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People ON MARRIAGE IN BOOKS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty's dull husband, neighbourhood, they say Last Line: Made naught of by her kindred, mocked and shamed. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MARRIAGE OF LADY GWENDOLIN TALBOT WITH ELDEST SON - PRINCE BORGHESE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! To decorate thy marriage morn Last Line: With the bright growth of each italian hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Marriage; Rome, Italy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MY DEAR GRANDCHILD SIMON WHO DIED ... ONE MONTH AND ONE DAY OLD, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner came, but gone, and fall'n asleep Last Line: Among the blessed in endless joys remain. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness ON MY LATE DEAR WIFE, by JONATHAN RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Adieu, dear life! Here am I left alone Last Line: When I but see the shadow of her shade. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Marriage; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MY WEDDING DAY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abandon'd day, why dost thou now appear? Last Line: And be like me, that's by thy self no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Soul; Youth; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON SHARING A HUSBAND, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Screw the fate that makes you share a man Last Line: I think I would have lived alone. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Polygamy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON TAKING A WIFE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, come,' said tom's father, 'at your time of life' Last Line: "why, so it is, father, -- whose wife shall I take?" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Joke Versified;how Very Modern Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces Last Line: May best deserve our love. Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE HEART'S BEGINNING TO CLOUD THE MIND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I saw or thought I saw Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Marriage; Railroads; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains ON THE HEIGHTS, by INES V. SHAFFER Poem Text First Line: The pine trees tall Last Line: Your whole life through. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE MARRIAGE ACT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The fools that are wealthy are sure of a bride Last Line: And I shall be rich when I've you in my arms Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem 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 MARRIAGE OF THOMAS KILLIGREW & CECILIA CROFTS: MORNING STORMY, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such should this day be, so the sun should hide Last Line: Her pleasing shrieks, and fan thy panting joys. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE TWO DWARFS THAT WERE MARRIED AT COURT, by EDMUND WALLER Poem 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 ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium OTHELLO THE MOOR, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Romances of late are so wretchedly poor Last Line: By breeding distrust between you and your wife! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OUR AMERICAN HUSBANDS WERE BORN, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into their studies, they study Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OUR PRINCIPAL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beat his wife. / we did not know it then Last Line: What he says. Subject(s): Marriage; News; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements OVER THE ROSE-LEAVES, UNDER THE ROSE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you say you loved me then Last Line: Or make it bloom again? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAINTED WIVES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soot, house-dust, and tar didn't go far Last Line: She smiles through the brushstrokes at someone still there Subject(s): Marriage; Paintings And Painters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PARADOX: THAT IT IS BEST FOR A YOUNG MAID TO MARRY AN OLD MAN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one, why cannot you an old man love Last Line: Your elevation is for fifty-two. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PASSING OF GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll introdooce a friend! He said Last Line: Was all they saw of 'gundagai'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Marriage; Sheep; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PATTY MORGAN THE MILKMAID'S STORY: 'LOOK AT THE CLOCK!', by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the clock!' quoth winifred pryce Last Line: Look at the clock!!!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Clocks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAUL'S WIFE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To drive paul out of any lumber camp Last Line: In any way the world knew how to speak in. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the fixed and settled rules Last Line: But, to my comfort, I'm prepared. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Physicians; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Doctors PEGGY'S WEDDING, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that you, peggy? My goodness me! Last Line: "and, misthriss! No more weddin's, aw good sakes! No, no more weddin's for me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PENELOPE IN DOUBT, by EDWIN MUIR Poem 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 PENELOPE'S WEB: SONNET FROM ARIOSTO, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet content that quiets angry thought Last Line: But due obedience worketh this delight. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Obedience; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERFECT UNION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Draw back the curtain, wife' he said Last Line: "there he shall live while I have life." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERFECT WOMAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She was a phantom of delight Last Line: With something of angelic light. Variant Title(s): "a Portrait;seen, Loved, Wedded;""she Was A Phantom Of Delight""; Subject(s): Death; Hutchinson, Mary; Love; Marriage; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERIMETERS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold morning the rested street stands up Last Line: There will be staring and drinks without taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Procne said, it happened at my wedding Subject(s): Mythology; Marriage; Rape; Sisters; Revenge; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness Last Line: The nomads walk & walk. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHOBIA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because from the tour bus Last Line: With its frantic wings. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PLACE FOR A THIRD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to say to all those marriages! Last Line: When his time comes to die and settle down. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PLANTATION WEDDING, by MARGARET W. HOBSON Poem Text First Line: Down on the old plantation Last Line: "in dem two gals!" Subject(s): Marriage; Plantation Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POEM IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS), by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose it hasn't been easy living with me either Last Line: Where they are going Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POEMS FROM NA KEIKI O HAWAII: BEST WISHES, by BEATRICE KIRSTEN HOFGAARD Poem Text First Line: Dad didn't like the card they chose Last Line: "have many happy weddings, dear." Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POLITICS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Politics & Government; Marriage; Lust; Family Life; Mcgovern, George (1922-2012); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives POLLY HOPKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pretty, pretty polly hopkins, how do you do?" Last Line: "she. No, hang yourself. He oh! Cruel etc" Subject(s): Cruelty;love;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives POLLY PERKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am a broken - hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed" Last Line: It was a bow - legged conductor of a twopenny bus Subject(s): Grief;love;marriage; Sorrow;sadness;weddings;husbands;wives POLLY, SELECTION, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What servants hear and see Last Line: Feuds and battle. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POLLY: DUCAT'S SONG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that weds a beauty / soon will find her cloy Last Line: In a married life. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PONTIUS AND PONTIA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pontius (who loves, you know, a joke Last Line: Pray bring your brother wits to see 't. Subject(s): Hair; Jokes; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PORK, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one warned me he'd long for loins and hocks Last Line: I look down at my fuzzy slippers and feel better. Uncle waldo hated pig's feet Subject(s): Marriage; Food & Eating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PORTRAITS, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: When my friend don juan Last Line: The business of life. .... Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSSESSION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet loved a star Last Line: "I miss from earth a poet." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSTHUMOUS TALES: TALE 3. EQUAL MARRIAGE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are gay nymphs whom serious matrons blame Last Line: Both seeking -- catching both, and caught! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSTPONEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snowbound in woodland, a mournful word Last Line: "cheerily mating!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRAYER OF ANY HUSBAND, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, may there be no moment in her life Last Line: May not the two of us be parted long! Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Prayer; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRAYER TO ST. FRANCIS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now low rod : Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Mothers; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism PROPOSAL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The violet loves a sunny bank Last Line: Shall I wed thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courtship; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PROTHALAMION, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PROTHALAMION, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Last Line: Sweete themmes, runne softly, till I end my song. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Birds; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY, 1ST SERIES: THE MARRIAGE MARKET, by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself Last Line: Resignation sweeteneth the cup, but impatience dasheth it with vinegar. Subject(s): Marriage; Philosophy & Philosophers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUANTRAINS: CHURCH AND STATE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the wedding of the church and state! Last Line: With gold the other chokes the mouth of prayer. Subject(s): Marriage; Religious Discrimination; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Religious Conflict QUATRAIN: MERE HUSBAND, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: I'm the ways and means committee Last Line: The speaker of the house. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUATRAIN: PARTING WAYS, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: My wife and I had words Last Line: Go mine -- till noon. Subject(s): Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements QUATRAIN: SAFETY FIRST, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: Many a man Last Line: By the sweat of his frau. Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUIEN SABE?, by MINA SHAFER Poem Text First Line: A mexican couple / oblivious of the ... Crowd Last Line: For wife beating. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUITE BY CHANCE, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She flung the parlour window wide Last Line: Happen somewhere every day. Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAB MCLINTOCK'S PENNY WEDDIN', by KENNETH MCLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Ance on a time twa handsome youths Last Line: And ranks hersel' amang the wealthy. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAHEL TO VARNHAGEN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now you have read them all; or if not all Last Line: As that about me? ... Well, I believe you do. Subject(s): Levin, Rahel Robert; Marriage; Varnhagen Von Ense, Karl (1785-1858); Varhagen Von Ense, Mrs. Karl; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAIN EFFECT, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bride and a groom sitting in an open buggy Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Rain; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie. Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection REFORMATION, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman, most wretched in his lot Last Line: You all to ruin bring, and every part confound.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Marriage; Reform & Reformers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REINCARNATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He slept as weary toilers do Last Line: (oh! The sad secrets of that orb of white.) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery RENUNCIATION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is full of the peal of bells Last Line: Of the lord's bow now breaks into flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Courtship; Flowers; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RENUNCIATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lifted rood thy days have hewn Last Line: For this, o love, for this! Subject(s): Divorce; Flowers; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE MARRIAGE OF THE OISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Here, where are grouped fin-d'oise, maurecourt, andresy, conflans Last Line: O poesy, o poesy, o poesy! . . . Subject(s): Death; Fate; Marriage; Dead, The; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag Last Line: He was all the world to her. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 REUNITED LOVE, by RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that we were lovers still Last Line: "dull reason, that bedarkens love!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REVERIE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The landscape gleams in the soft moonlight Last Line: Are with us still at eventide. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Memory; Silence; Thought; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking RHUMBA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say 'bells' say 'buckskin leggings' say 'drumstick' say 'domestic' say Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 15. TO THE ANGELS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is dread thanatos indeed! Last Line: Ye angels, grant matilda your protection! Subject(s): Angels; Life; Marriage; Tears; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROMANTICISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is to emerson I have turned now Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Death - Wives; Loss; Corpses; Cadavers ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon a mountain Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O rose the red and white lily Last Line: Gin she this sight did see! Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;marriage;roses; Weddings;husbands;wives RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RURAL BLISS, by ANTHONY C. DEANE Poem Text First Line: The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city Last Line: As long as maud is there, you see, -- what matters all the rest? Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RUSH HOUR, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That tall, shapely blond standing at her husband's side Last Line: We will not talk to one another. Subject(s): Commuters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SAILORWIFE, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: Orchid and green and the may winds blowing Last Line: And the lonely years for allan and me. Subject(s): Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs 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: 10. IN THE NUPTIAL CHAMBER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that mastering tune!' and up in the bed Last Line: And it's he I embrace while embracing you!' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Marriage; 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: 4. IN THE ROOM OF THE BRIDE-ELECT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would it had been the man of our wish! Last Line: Good god - I must marry him I suppose!' Subject(s): Marriage; 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 SCORN, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought of no wilder delicacy than the starling eggs she fed him Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCOTIA: A VISION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight's solemn peal had rung Last Line: Seemed wrapt in sadder, deeper gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SECLUSION, CONCEALMENT & VEILING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridegroom in ancient sparta supped on the wedding night at Last Line: Accompanied by her sister dressed exactly like herself Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SECOND MARRIAGE, by EMMA RIGBY COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: I did not think that love would come to me again Last Line: This calm fulfillment of my early dreams. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SECOND TIME AROUND, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're entangled with someone more famous than you Last Line: Comes tiptoeing into your study with a nice cup of coffee. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism SEPARATION, by BESSE PATTERSON GEPHART Poem Text First Line: My son is gone Last Line: I would not mind. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Sons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEPTEMBER IN THE NORTH, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, do you remember Last Line: "when you and I are wed!" Subject(s): Marriage; September; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEVEN TIMES SIX [ - GIVING IN MARRIAGE], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To bear, to nurse, to rear Last Line: To love -- and then to lose. Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEXUAL MOTION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vision of a wifely woman one half of her face black the other half Last Line: It is she my wifely sorcerly ayami, a terrifying sexual motion Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHADOWBOXING, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm telling my story to this couple who're over for dinner, they're friends, though not best friends Last Line: It takes some getting used to Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Theater & Theaters; Motor Vehicle Bureaus; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Stage Life SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What word to him hadst thou to tell Last Line: O stolen novice of saint clare? Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 SHOCKING RAPE AND MURDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jane williams had a lover true Last Line: Cut off when in their prime Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;love;marriage;murder;rape;tears; Weddings;husbands;wives SHOPPING SPREE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose whose property property is whose whose in the origin origin Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SIC A WIFE AS WILLIE HAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willie wastle dwalt on tweed Last Line: I wadna gie a button for her! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SILHOUETTE OF A HUSBAND, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies classify husbands Last Line: "I will not be home to dinner this evening." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Marriage; 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 SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 87, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ring upon her finger Last Line: At her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SINGING INSECTS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Semi - singing insects - boys catch in june Last Line: And as the caged insects sing. Subject(s): Insects; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SINGLE PHILOSOPHY, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Alla time you say, why don't you marry? Last Line: So eet ees not healthy thing for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Philosophy & Philosophers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SINK OR SWIM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship was wreck'd, and struggling with the ocean's angry tide Last Line: "but that secret, sink or swim, love, to the grave with me must go." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SIR ELIDUC; A LAY OF MARIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch ye the harp with tender hand Last Line: By man was never known! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marie De France (12th Century); Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SIR OLAVE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of the cathedral Last Line: "we plighted our vows of love tender." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Life; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SLAVE MARRIAGE CEREMONY SUPPLEMENT, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: Dark an' stormy may come de wedder Last Line: She's now yo' own. Salute yo' bride Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;marriage;slavery; Negro Spirituals;weddings;husbands;wives;serfs SLEF-HELP, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What kind of delusion are you under? Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SO GLAD FOR SPREENG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Eef som'body com' to-day Last Line: "here ees com' da spreeng!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOLILOQUY OF TEURA, A BEAUTY ASKED TO WED PUNU, AN OLD CHIEF, by MARAU Poem Text First Line: The golden rays of the sky grow wider and wider Last Line: I would rather die than return it Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOLIPSISTIC, ANATOMICAL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said once an overt thing a relevant thing & the first time heard it Last Line: Incomplete tempestuous calm & strange of body trembling because of marriage Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America SONG (4), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her; she was lovely Last Line: And hailed the coming day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge. Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONG OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far out, blue ocean! O'er thy wave Last Line: Shall tread earth by my side. Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean SONG: WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A', by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bride she is winsome and bonny Last Line: To be woo'd and married at a'! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: VARIATIONS, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: He says I am fair among fair women Last Line: For an hour of that which I have not. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever. Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SONNET, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The late gracie allen was a very lucid comedienne Subject(s): Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Burns, George (1896-1996); Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The SONNET TO A FRIEND, ON HIS SECOND MARRIAGE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To hymen's shrine, where once thy vows were paid Last Line: On which love prompted you again to build. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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: 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: 5, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Those hours that with gentle work did frame Last Line: Lease but their show; their substance still lives sweet. Variant Title(s): Eternal Rhyme Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 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: BETROTHAL NIGHT, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through golden languors of low glimmering light Last Line: Set in the splendor of dark orient hair! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: HELOISE. 1. THE BRIDE, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come in my dreams, beloved! Though thou seem Last Line: When thou and I are equal, being one. Subject(s): Heloise (1098-1164); Marriage; Eloise; Eloisa; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: O HUSBAND!, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem 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 OF MANHOOD: 21. THE WORLD'S MARRIAGE MORN, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The world is young. - her eyes are girlish still Last Line: For other seasons, and another song. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOUR WINE, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: I met the wife who'd left me bed Last Line: And let it go at that. Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements SPECIFICATION, by THELMA PHLEGAR Poem Text First Line: I'll never wed a woman Last Line: Her hands when the rain comes down. Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Rain; Wombats; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPEECHLESS; UPON THE MARRIAGE OF TWO DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their lips upon each other's lips are laid Last Line: In passion-lighted silence, 'tranced and sweet. Subject(s): Deafness; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 LANDSCAPE, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Here sways the willow Last Line: Here where the sun has taken fecund earth to wife! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ST. MICHAEL'S CHAIR, AND WHO SAT THERE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily, merrily rung the bells Last Line: "in compliment to me." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Death; Freedom; Marriage; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STAG'S LEAP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the drawing on the label of our favorite red wine Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation STAGE WEDLOCK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farren, thalia's dear delight Last Line: The fleet will be their prison. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STEREO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Marriage marriage is like you say everything everything in stereo Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STILL STEERING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the awkward stern she sat Last Line: Twas only simile! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STREET OF HUMAN BODIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For he must repair to his father-in-law, the meter-outer-of-support if Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STRIKING BEAUTY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom, struck by her face, took and married a wife Last Line: He should ever be struck by her fist as well! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Marriage; Violence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SUNDAY RADIO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my husband's window I hear a woman Last Line: To how his voice breaks, then goes on with the song. Subject(s): Marriage; Radio; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I realize as I / cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Past; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SWEET MAY MORN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet may morn; wake, drowsy girls! Last Line: A happy homea husband kind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Marriage; May (month); Morning; Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TABLE TALK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To weave a culinary clue Last Line: Of these narcotic numbers. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; London; Marriage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TABLEAU VIVANT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the scene where hector, reluctant Last Line: Taller than he is. Subject(s): Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TALE: 9. ARABELLA, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a fair town where doctor rack was guide Last Line: To make the sinner sure, and then t' attack the sin.' Subject(s): Duplicity; Marriage; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TELL HER SO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Amid the cares of married strife Last Line: She is worth her weight in gold / tell her so! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives TEN SONGS: 4, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carry her over the water Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THAT'S HER PRIVILEGE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all human beings a wife is the queerest Last Line: To prove that her husband's the smartest of men! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning; Cars; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE AFFINITY, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have to thank god I'm a woman Last Line: Is free to be very hungry, very lonely. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Sexism; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 10. PRELUDE. MARRIAGE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven none marry. Grant the most Last Line: Where now and then are no more twain! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 11. THE WEDDING, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life smitten with a feverish chill Last Line: Swathed by the red breath of the sun Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 5. THE QUEEN'S ROOM, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing happier than the days Last Line: Blossom'd the laughing bridal rose. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANNIVERSARY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course we failed, by succeeding Last Line: In nothing. Don't leave me, don't leave me Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ARK UPON HIS SHOULDERS, by FORREST GANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband did all this. - we used to live Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain Last Line: Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE BACHELOR'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pipe is lit, my grog is mix'd Last Line: What d'ye think of that, my dog? Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BALLAD OF MEAN MARKS, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Text First Line: Marks was the county's meanest man Last Line: "my poor, proud man. . ." Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BALLAD OF THE MADE MAID, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is rich and talented Subject(s): Women's Rights; Marriage; Feminism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BAMBOO, THE PLUM AND THE PINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere in this land they must be found Last Line: To the new year three-in-one, the bamboo, the plum and the pine. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Worship; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BANKS OF THE LEE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the banks of the lee, the banks of the lee Last Line: And 'tis little I'd sigh for the banks of the lee? Subject(s): Lee (river), Ireland; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BATCHELOR OF SIXTY-TWO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some say to ninety-five they live Last Line: "sing lackadaisy, etc" Subject(s): Life;marriage;single People; Weddings;husbands;wives;bachelors;unmarried People THE BED, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in beauty like a lake Subject(s): Marriage; Love - Erotic; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BEGGAR, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beggar through the world so wide Last Line: Shall rise a welcome guest. Subject(s): Longing; Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THE BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE BEST OF HUSBANDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh I have a man as good as can be Last Line: And who could wish for a better than he? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE BEST, THE MOST, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet one young woman lives with me Last Line: And failing, falling, ruined, rich. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BITER BIT, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair Last Line: Draw me a pot of beer, mother, and, mother, draw it mild! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Love - Materialism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BLASPHEMER'S WARNING; A LAY OF ST. ROMWOLD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In kent, we are told Last Line: Or -- what sometimes occurs -- run away with a saint! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Blasphemy; Marriage; Curses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BLISSFUL DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day returns, my bosom burns Last Line: It breaks my bliss, -- it breaks my heart. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BLUNDER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The girls in my vicinity Last Line: That was the fatal blunder. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDAL MORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The maidens came Last Line: "the lily, the rose, the rose I lay" Variant Title(s): The Lily And The Rose Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE BRIDAL OF MALAHIDE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The joy-bells are ringing Last Line: We live but to die!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to be a bride Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Women; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE AND GROOM, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: True as magnet to the pole Last Line: A happy groom and bride. Subject(s): Churches; Happiness; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE'S COMPLAINT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the face of my loved naked Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE-CAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day my julia thou must make Last Line: And for the bride-cake ther'l be spice. Subject(s): Cakes; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDEGROOM OF CANA, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veil thine eyes, o beloved, my spouse Last Line: "jesus bar-joseph, the carpenter's son." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years ago, dear love, / and we were strangers; in a distant land Last Line: With souls, not bound, but blended evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Time; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDESMAID, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O bridesmaid, ere the happy knot was tied Last Line: O happy bridesmaid, make a happy bride!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CARLE OF KELLYBURN BRAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a carle in kellyburn braes Last Line: And the thyme it is wither'd, and rue is in prime. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CATCHING BALLET OF THE WEDDING CLOTHES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman's coming Last Line: Came thither again. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CAVALIER HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "tush! Let them keep him, if they can" Last Line: And 'twill dissolve the parliament Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy 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 CHURCH AND THE WEDDING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll restore this old church for our marriage Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764) Poem Text First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "quoth john to joan, will thou have me" Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A comical lass I went to woo Last Line: Who came in and politely kicked me out Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;faces;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives 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 CONFORMERS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes; we'll wed, my little fay Last Line: Sound parish views.' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears Last Line: "to one long penitence." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER'S STORY), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little fogs were gathered in every hollow Last Line: And carried 'em there in an after year. Subject(s): Fiddles; Marriage; Musical Instruments; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE COWBOY AND THE MAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Funny how it come about! Subject(s): Courtship;cowboys;marriage;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Weddings;husbands;wives;southwest;pacific States THE CRISIS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Let me say (in anger) that since the day we were married Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CRUEL BROTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three ladies played at the ba' Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters;family Life;marriage;murder; Relatives;weddings;husbands;wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DANGER OF DISCONTENT, by E.-G. BAYFIELD Poem Text First Line: Oh, soon may that holiday period come Last Line: "than that which is caus'd by the man of your heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Cooper, Laura+(1) Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Parents; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEAD WIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I see her in a saintly guise Last Line: I need so much -- so much! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DELAYING BRIDE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why so slowly do you move? Last Line: T'ave your blushes seen by day. Subject(s): Marriage; Procrastination; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DESERTED WIFE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes not. - I have watched the moon go down Last Line: How injured, and how faithful I had been. Subject(s): Abandonment; Marriage; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEVONSHIRE LANE, by JOHN MARRIOTT Poem Text First Line: In a devonshire lane as I trotted along Last Line: Though marriage is just like a devonshire lane. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DOLEFUL LAY OF THE WIFE OF ASAN AGA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is yon so white beside the greenwood? Last Line: As she saw her children turning from her. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 DRUNKARD'S WIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O jeanie, my woman! Whaur is't ye are gaun Last Line: Sae ye're greetin', an' toilin', an fechtin' awa' Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Marriage; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slowly glide the hours by, the minutes hours seem Last Line: And shall I always -- always be a drunkard's wretched wife? Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Marriage; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DUKE OF GUELDRES' WEDDING (1405), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen and all her waiting maids Last Line: As blithe and bonny a bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DYING MAN TO HIS BETROTHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One word - 'tis all I ask of thee Last Line: O christ, who art the gate of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE EARL'S RETURN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ragged and tall stood the castle wall Last Line: Under the boughs of this bare black thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The THE EGGS AND THE HORSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John dobbins was so captivated Last Line: I thank him for the lesson he has taught me Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 2, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, it is my wedding-morn Last Line: For I watched the night away. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ENTERTAINMENT: OR PORCH-VERSE AT THE MARRIAGE ..., by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weelcome! But yet no entrance, till we blesse Last Line: Which spent, one death, bring to ye both one grave. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE EQUIVOCATION, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An abbot rich (whose taste was good) Last Line: First mend the faults they find in others. Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ESPOUSAL; A SOBER ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shadow of a beaver hat Last Line: So tabitha took earnest of a spouse. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ETONIAN; THE BACHELOR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder that your ancient friend / has come so near his journey's end Last Line: And find some cause to envy mine! Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE FAIREST THING IN MORTAL EYES, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To make my lady's obsequies Last Line: The fairest thing in mortal eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Death - Childbirth THE FAIRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither my sparrows Last Line: Of the marriage ring Variant Title(s): The Marriage Ring Subject(s): Bible; Fairies; Marriage; Mythology; Elves; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FAMILY MAN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once was a jolly young beau Last Line: But then -- I'm a family man! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S BRIDE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three summers since I chose a maid Last Line: The brown of her -- her eyes, her hair, her hair! Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; 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 FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE AND THE GASCON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At neufchatel, in france, where they prepare Last Line: The bottle-nose belonging to the judge! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Judges; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIELD OF GILBOA, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning looked forth from his throne Last Line: Thy flocks to decay and thy forests to wither. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRE OF LOVE, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1711-1769) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire of love in youthful blood Last Line: Yet is the heat as strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 2d Duke Of Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRESIDE CHAIRS; HUSBAND TO WIFE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daylight gains upon the night Last Line: And look'd on, as I look'd on you. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This brief effusion I indite Last Line: To charm life's dreary day! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FLAME-BRIDE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the red hearth of time Last Line: Still slumbering till he wake her! Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FLAMING CIRCLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table Last Line: This pain of possession that frees and encircles us both? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In secret place where once I stood Last Line: Take thou the world, and all that will. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're my friend Last Line: Amen! Subject(s): Marriage; Escapes; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Fugitives THE FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another four I've left yet to bring on Last Line: Shall at your feet for pardon cry. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Seasons; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness 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 GLEN DON THERE, by JOHN HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' blythe an' merry tinkle, the bit bonnie wimplin' burn Last Line: To bonnie winsome jessie, in the glen doon there! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you give no hint that night Last Line: Not even I - would undo me so! Subject(s): Death; Gifford, Emma Lavinia; Life Change Events; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by DAVID GRAY (1836-1888) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, whose patient pilgrim feet Last Line: To-night shall turn to wine. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 10. PILATE'S WIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why came in dreams the low-born man Last Line: As poor a verity. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Pilate, Pontius; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GREAT SEDUCER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who looks too long from his window Last Line: To disillusionment! Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GROOMSMAN TO HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every wedding, says the proverb Last Line: What if't wereboth mine and thine? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GUDEWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gudewife - she that is tae be Last Line: Luve's tapmaist-bubblin' ecstasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A week ago; only a little week Last Line: He sees me, he is coming; my own love! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HAPPY HUSBAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, oft methinks, the while with thee Last Line: That seems, yet cannot greater be! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HAPPY SWAIN, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have ye seen the morning sky Last Line: To my vows, for ever mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HENPECK'D HUSBAND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in my life Last Line: I'd kiss her maids, and kick the perverse bitch. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HERD'S WIFE, by JOHN VEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a lone herd's house, far up I' the hope Last Line: He breath'd, and bless'd her name! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: HOUSE FEAR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always - I tell you this they learned Last Line: Until they had lit the lamp inside. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: THE IMPULSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was too lonely for her there Last Line: Besides the grave. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had no saying dark enough Last Line: Of what the tree might do. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: THE SMILE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't like the way he went away Last Line: He's watching from the woods as like as not. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOLLY TREE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The corn was warm in the ground, the fences were mended and made Last Line: "he shall master be in the house, and mistress shall be his wife!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holly; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 15. THE BIRTH-BOND, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not noted, in some family Last Line: Known for my soul's birth-partner well enough! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HUSBAND'S PETITION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, my heart's darling Last Line: Is all the boon I ask! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HUSBANDS REPLY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five minutes, all I have to spare Last Line: At eight o'clock,and thenoh then! Subject(s): Letters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE IDEAL HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've lived for forty years, dear wife Last Line: That you are wrong and I am right. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE IDEAL WIFE (WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF NATIONALITY), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wife whose love has vanquished doubt and fear Last Line: Revealing, each to each, truth, beauty, good. Subject(s): Ethnic Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE INSATIABLE PRIEST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean Last Line: He can be content with two thousand a year. Subject(s): Birth; Clergy; Death; Marriage; Child Birth; Midwifery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE INVESTMENT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over back where they speak of life as staying Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE JOLLY MILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jolly miller lived on the river dee Last Line: About four hunderd mile! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fleas; Laughter; Marriage; Mills And Millers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE JOYS OF MARRIAGE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How uneasy is his life Last Line: Who is marri'd to a wife. Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY; DOMESTIC LEGEND OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady jane was tall and slim Last Line: Have them spitch-cock'd -- or stew'd -- they're too oily when fried! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Drowning; Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She bears no crown upon her brow Last Line: Nature and freedom taught her. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Marriage; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LAST GIUSTINIANI, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wife, wife, wife! As if the sacred name Last Line: "into a new-found word, I called you ""wife!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LAY OF ST. ODILLE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Odille was a maid of a dignified race Last Line: Can produce enough saints to save every odille. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Saints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LEADY'S TOWER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' then we went along the gleades Last Line: Built up the tower upon the knowl.' Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage; Memory; Monuments; Story-telling; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LEISURE CLASSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a little beggar maid Last Line: "and, pleasing heaven, never will" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;household Employees;marriage;social Classes; Servants;domestics;maids;weddings;husbands;wives;caste THE LETTER, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not expect you Subject(s): Marriage; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LETTER L, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat on grassy slopes that meet Last Line: "the letter l." Subject(s): Beauty; God; Jealousy; Letters; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LITTLE BIRD THAT TOLD THE SECRET, by MARY N. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: So I've heard your secret, mabel Last Line: And live beside the mill. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mary N.; Bleeker, Mary N. Subject(s): Marriage; Secrets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LONG WHITE SEAM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came round the harbor buoy Last Line: Sewing the long white seam. Subject(s): Harbors; Light; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (1), by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live with thy bridegroom happy, sacred bride Last Line: How blest is he that is for love envied! Subject(s): Envy; Freedom; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LOVELY HUSBAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh a lovely husband he was known, he loved his wife and Last Line: In this love-ly man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LOWER WORLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a time poor pluto sigh'd thus Last Line: "a faded life, love lost for ever!" Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARRIAGE, by YVOR WINTERS Poem 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 NOCTURNE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stopped at a corner, near midnight, I watch Last Line: World that we cannot heal, that is our bride Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem 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 MARRIAGE VOW, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The altar, 'tis of death! For there are laid Last Line: For in the grave is rest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MAUSOLEUM, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monument of love! More glorious love Last Line: Twas artemisia by her husband's tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Graves; Love; Marriage; Monuments; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MEASURE, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I continue in my gbariye. Subject(s): Life Choices; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MESSENGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose up in the early dawn Last Line: "the fight itself was not so hard." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MILLER, by JOHN CLERK Poem Text First Line: O merry may the maid be Last Line: When a miller lives so happy? Alternate Author Name(s): Clerk Of Penicuik, John Subject(s): Marriage; Mills & Millers; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE MINISTER'S WIFE, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is a peaceful town Last Line: For rebellion? Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MISSING BRIDE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wedded girl exclaimed, 'I'll hide, I'll hide!' Last Line: The mystery of that fatal 'hide and seek'. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MODERN VERSION (TO A LUCY STONER), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay by yourself and be my love! Last Line: Stay by yourself and be my bride! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MOURNING GARMENT: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SHEPHERD AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was near a thicky shade Last Line: Was not more in thessaly. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MOURNING-GARMENT: THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What is love! It is a pretty thing Last Line: What lady would not love a shepherd swain? Variant Title(s): Love In Arcady;the Shepherd And The King;happy As A Shepherd Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark the halls, and cold the feast Last Line: An unwitting triumph find. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEWLY WEDDED, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rite is duly done Last Line: Hand in hand together. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING; OR, TEN YEARS AFTER, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The country ways are full of mire Last Line: And die into my wedding day. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NOON ORGAN CONCERT, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Text First Line: Ave maria, he started to play Last Line: In the babble of voices and patter of feet. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Mary (name); Mothers; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NOVICE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE OLD COUPLE (THE WORKHOUSE - OLD STYLE), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old wife speaks: Last Line: The lord shouldn't grant a long life to the poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD MAN DREAMS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for one hour of youthful joy! Last Line: To please the gray-haired boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Marriage; Old Age; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD PROFESSOR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard Last Line: Seeks the high lark in god's clear element. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Teaching & Teachers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE ORIENTAL WAY, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: The fond husband will, after conjugal strife Last Line: Cuts the woman as well as the argument short. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink. Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PARISH REGISTER: 2. MARRIAGES, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disposed to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay Last Line: When every beauty fades, and all the passions sleep. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PER-CONTRA, OR MATRIMONIAL BALANCE, by GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange, a deaf wife to prefer! Last Line: True, but she's also dumb, good sir. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PERFECT COMRADE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The perfect comrade says nothing, nothing Last Line: With twin stars, shining serenely. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PERNICKETY WIFE, by J. KNOX CHRISTIE Poem Text First Line: My wife's a weary, waefu' wife Last Line: My wife is sae pernickety. Subject(s): Cleanliness; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE PIPE OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the magic Last Line: The marriage ceremony? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Marriage; Peace; Smoking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE PLACE OF FAME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: The marriage registers of somerset Last Line: Say from your heart:god rest each simple soul! Subject(s): Marriage; Somerset, England; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PLAINT OF THE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fain would I be sleeping, dreaming" Last Line: "driven out, thrown away, married too soon!" Subject(s): Insomnia;marriage; Sleeplessness;weddings;husbands;wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 115, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bridegroom liu is eighty-two Last Line: Then killed by the girls from the blue Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 125, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year's grain being still unripe Last Line: And wealth just makes them dumber Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Marriage; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 127, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When an old man takes a young wife Last Line: Both show the other affection Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Old Age; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 137, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamt I went home Last Line: And my temples weren't their old color Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dreams; Homecoming; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 184, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buy meat with blood still dripping Last Line: And both of you finally part Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Food & Eating; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 55, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The willows grow dark like mist Last Line: No swallow nests allowed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Absence; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 59, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a girl to the east Last Line: They'll reap their judgment in tears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Punishment; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 63, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In loyang so many girls Last Line: Or thinking of husbands at home Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Girls; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 64, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring women flaunt their looks Last Line: Their husbands know why Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Flirtation; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 75, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wife got tired of weaving Last Line: Crying in pain to the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 93, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All kinds of people exist under heaven Last Line: I'd head east Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Humanity; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 11, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A son demands a wife Last Line: But not in your book of crimes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Marriage; Wealth; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 19, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When men and women marry Last Line: Bound for the hell of no relief Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hell; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S BRIDAL DAY SONG, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my love's like the steadfast sun Last Line: The best of all that's not divine. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S SONG FOR HIS WIFE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many summers, love Last Line: To thee and time! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): The Poet's Song To His Wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S VOW, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve is a twofold mystery Last Line: Still, like them we must weep.' Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Marriage; Eve; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S WIFE, by JESSICA BELL Poem Text First Line: Because you could say the things Last Line: By our cottage door. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds that sang so sweet in the summer skies are fled Last Line: Till in ripeness of old age we both drop to earth together! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PREACHER'S WIFE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless his wife, the preacher's wife Last Line: The rising of the just. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology THE PRIDE OF WESTMORELAND, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man of ninety-three Last Line: Like harry the eighth before me. Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PROCESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let our womankind tend hearth and house Last Line: Make deposition as to woman's worth. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PROGRESS OF MARRIAGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aetatis suae fifty-two Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PROPERTIES OF A GOOD WIFE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Attend ye fair, who wish to prove Last Line: "from every ravish'd tongue." Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK 7, STANZA 7, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I saw thee on the day thou wast a bride Last Line: Was mine, -- for thee, that day, I breathed devotion leal. Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK 7, STANZA 8, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: And many a heart, yielding, that festive day Last Line: All gentle feelings in their way to some dire end. Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood a damsel very early Subject(s): Jews; Marriage; Sons-in-law; Love - Complaints; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE REIVER'S WEDDING, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O will ye hear a mirthful bourd? Last Line: A shackled knight along. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RETORT, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old birch [or, nick], who taught the village school Last Line: "o, dear! I didn't know 't was you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RING'S MOTTO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A lover gave the wedding-ring Last Line: Till death us join Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE RIVER-MECHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedi Subject(s): Nature; Marriage; Againg; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation 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 RURAL LASS, by CATHERINE (YEO) JEMMAT Poem Text First Line: My father and mother (what ails them?) Last Line: This world it should end as begun. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RWOSE IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In zummer, leate at evenen tide Last Line: Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Love; Marriage; Roses; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SANDGATE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was a young maid truly Last Line: And my good days are all done Subject(s): Lament;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE SATIN SHOES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever I walk to church to wed Last Line: Like flute-notes softly blown. Subject(s): Marriage; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SEATON TERRACE LASS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love at seaton terrace dwells Last Line: The seaton terrace lass. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SECOND WIFE, by KATE PORTER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: You lived in a gray cottage on a street Last Line: Could I but give to roger his first son! Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver waters smoothly slip / in an overarching flood Last Line: And few there are who understand. Subject(s): Floods; Marriage; Sound; Water; Waterfalls; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SHEEPSHEARING MAN, by FRANCES EADES Poem Text First Line: Now girls, please take my advice Last Line: Ere you marry a sheepshearing man. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SILVER WEDDING; TO JOHN NEWMAN, D.D., by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wedding of silver! - and what shall we do? Last Line: Find the years that are past were as silver to gold! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SISTERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were two daughters of one race Last Line: O, the earl was fair to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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: 84, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But when she view'd his countenance o'ercast Last Line: Her tender eyes bright tears of ruth bedim. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 85, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: She did not press him with unwelcome speech Last Line: Till he should choose to unburden all his woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Marriage; Sympathy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Empathy THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SONG, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My time, o ye grattans, was happily spent Last Line: Begone, froward wife, for I'll drink till I die! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 SOW OF FEELING, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malignant planets! Do ye still combine Last Line: Life, to be numbered 'mongst the feeling swine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE SPANISH WIVES: SONG BETWEEN MR. LEVERIDGE AND MRS. CROSS, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Fairest nymph that ever bless'd our shore Last Line: A wiser will supply, &c. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TEA-GOWN, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lady has a tea-gown Last Line: Of that gown at two pounds ten! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; 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 TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness THE TEST OF CONJUGAL LOVE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his fever burnt bed, quick gasping for breath Last Line: But the gentleman there on the bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE THREE WIVES; A JUBILIATION, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first was a lady whose dominant passion Last Line: For I'm clear of the world and the flesh and the devil! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TOY SOLDIER, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I want a soldier Last Line: I'd not consider wedding one. No, that's out! Subject(s): Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TREASURED THREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Here with my treasured three I sit Last Line: To leave this little house of joy? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Pets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TRETIS OF THE TUA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apon the midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis Last Line: Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif, gif ye suld wed one? Variant Title(s): The Book Of The Two Married Women And The Widow Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TROUBLES OF MATTHEW MAHONEY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little town in devonshire, in the mellow september moonlight Last Line: And matthew mahoney dearly does her love. Subject(s): Distrust; Love; Marriage; Repentance; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Penitence THE TRUE LOVE-KNOTT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But why / on thy beloved feeds thine eye? Last Line: Not I, but thou and I are mine. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON, by HENRY PORTER Poem Text First Line: Gentlemen, I come to ye like one that lacks and would borrow Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Anger; Marriage; Neighbors; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TYTHE. TO THE BRIDE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If nine times you your bride-groome kisse Last Line: Won't for his tenth part ask you one. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE UNEQUAL FETTERS, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could we stop the time that's flying Last Line: At the full length of their chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE USUAL WAY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took Last Line: Well -- they do -- in the usual way. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VICTORIES OF LOVE: TH WEDDING SERMON, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truths of love are like the sea Last Line: Content with mediocrities! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though days do gain upon the night Last Line: A-look'd on as I look'd on you. Subject(s): Chairs; Comfort; Fireplaces; Marriage; Nostalgia; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VIOLENCE OF PRONOUN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loving came her way Last Line: "that makes us vicious." Subject(s): Marriage; Racism; Slavery; Social Problems; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are going to marry my pretty relation Last Line: And your worth not the best of your friends will disparage! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Marriage; Travel; English; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WATCHER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose for a young head Last Line: And the lips and the hair of the bride. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WATCHERS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's nose is white from the icy window Last Line: Why we watch him Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WAY TO LIVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man and a woman got married one day Last Line: And if we can't get on we may think it strange Subject(s): Human Behavior;marriage; Conduct Of Life;human Nature;weddings;husbands;wives THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another? Last Line: Mother, my mother. Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ah, day of joy! The sound of pipe and flute with sweetly blending Last Line: Of sweet-voiced instruments! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by THOMAS HOOD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady clara vere de vere Last Line: Bound for the dam of rotter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her satin gown so fine Last Line: And our lilies wait the dead. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Life; Love; Marriage; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O marriage-bells, your clamor tells Last Line: Macon, georgia, 1865. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells! Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WEDDING BONNET, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She tied her wedding bonnet on Last Line: Then blushed as if she felt the ring. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 DAY; OR, THE BUCCANEER'S CURSE; A FAMILY LEGEND, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has a jocund sound Last Line: With 'drink there! -- we'll have henceforth no more cakes and ale!!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Curses; Marriage; Pirates; Ghosts; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Piracy; Buccaneers THE WEDDING FEAST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced to walk, not long ago Last Line: Betoken singularity. Subject(s): Feasts; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 1, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh who art thou - thou fearful guest Last Line: "and we will dart into the sun." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 2, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fires bedight that magic sprite Last Line: "eternal and angelic creature." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 3, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That god rode forth upon my mind Last Line: "her will upon this night be done." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 4, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What strange pavilions builded bright Last Line: "thy will upon this night be done." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 5, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last from dreamless sleep I came Last Line: To my great love, a holy kiss. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 6, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more - no more - not any more Last Line: "I am mother to all living men!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING GARMENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old coat, the easy coat Last Line: What's the harm? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING GIFT, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the garret under the sloping eaves Last Line: To every girl on her marriage day. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING MORN, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, come forth, but never to return Last Line: Himself between their lips a grave to make. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING MORNING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tabitha dressed for her wedding Last Line: "she can have him. I shall not mourn!" Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING MORNING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread the feast, and let there be Last Line: And cathleen weeps among her streams. Subject(s): Marriage; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING PARTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the large frame of the window collapses in the fire Last Line: For the hat that he wore to a wedding. Subject(s): Fire; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING POSY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to thy newly-wedded hand, which gave Last Line: Among the blest shall tell of orange flowers! Subject(s): Marriage; Posies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING VEIL, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear anna, when I brought her veil Last Line: "the dead is safe with god alone!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING VOW, by SHARON OLDS Poem 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 WEDDING-TIME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: This is the merry marriage time Last Line: May last through wintry weather. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WELFORD WEDDING, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Susan and charlotte and letty and all Last Line: Susan and charlotte and letty and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEREWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me in a dazzling guise Last Line: And the kiss of her stung like the fang of a snake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHIMS OF THE AMOROUS; A TRUE STORY, REPATED AFTER OLD DOCUMENTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the hedge the beetle sits sadly Last Line: Poor bride has long been dead and rotten. Subject(s): Insects; Love; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 THE WHITE WITCH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven help your home tonight Last Line: "and married for your woe." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Marriage; Witchcraft & Witches; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That whitsun, I was late getting away Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE WIDOWER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free as air Last Line: To laugh -- or cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little dreams of maidenhood Last Line: Should laugh to find you there. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: The wife,' he said, whenever he spoke of her Last Line: The use that never sees a flower or star. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE, by ANNA SPENCER TWITCHELL Poem Text First Line: He sees the wife, from slim young comeliness Last Line: The halo that surrounds her mother-brow. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE OF BATH HER PROLOGUE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the woes of matrimonial life Last Line: And bless those souls my conduct help'd to save! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WRAPT IN WETHER'S SKIN (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sweet william he married him a wife Last Line: And now she make william a very good wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE WIFE'S APPPEAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat and read. A book with silver clasps Last Line: Frighted with calumny! -- and this is fame! Subject(s): Marriage; Pride; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE WIFE'S CHRISTMAS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can you speak to me so, charlie! Last Line: Your wife but a single year! Subject(s): Christmas; Marriage; Nativity, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S LAMENT, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like daytime Last Line: Me, poor little wife! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S POEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My works, dear poet wife, are set Last Line: To time's remotest, fairest shelf! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S SONG, by ERNEST BENSHIMOL Poem Text First Line: When I awake Last Line: Oh what am I? Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S WILL, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit still - a word - a breath may break Last Line: Lit by our clear fire's happy glow; Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE; A TRUE STORY DONE INTO VERSE, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her husband starved; and gazed up in her face Last Line: She and the child together ate that fare. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WINSOME WEE THING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is a winsome wee thing Last Line: And think my lot divine. Variant Title(s): My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WISE WOMAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes grow hot, his words grow wild Last Line: Who understands him. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WISHBONE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another fowl had gone the way Last Line: "oh, never mind! I wished that, too!" Subject(s): Marriage; Wishes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WITCH-MOTHER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep Last Line: And twae mair sauls in hell. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE WIVES OF WEINSBERG, by GOTTFRIED AUGUST BURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which way to weinsberg? Neighbor, say! Last Line: A weinsberg dame my wife shall be. Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOFLE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this week Last Line: To pull you all hup to a'beckett the beak. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOMAN AT HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please note this little fact, I beg: it is the Last Line: Softly smiles, for she's content with a reflected glory. Subject(s): Housewives; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOOD ROAD, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: All day they are hurrying off to the fair Last Line: Then we'll turn from the highway and take the wood road. Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Marriage; Fairs; Pageants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem 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 WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORN WEDDING-RING, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few Last Line: Of those fond eyes, -- fond as they were when this old ring was new! Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORST OF TIMES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two men agree to swap wives Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 THE WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cried over humpty-dumpty Last Line: I think of mynas Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Children; Eggs; Racial Equality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WRITER'S JOURNAL: POSSESSION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was our wedding-day Last Line: God's mercy thou, and therefore shalt endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, / when the coach rolled off Last Line: "please write, ""I know." Subject(s): Marriage; New York City - 19th Century; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THEKLA; A SWEDISH SAGA: 3. THE BRIDAL, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The guests have met in the castle hall Last Line: "that I had never been born!" Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THERE WAS A YOUNG HUSBAND NAMED DWIGHTLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If I knew how to do it politely Subject(s): Flirtation;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THERE'S A WEDDING IN THE ORCHARD, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wedding in the orchard, dear Last Line: And aisles of flowery light. Subject(s): Marriage; Orchards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THOSE DICKINS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose you think it queer, an' 't ain't no common thing, I know Last Line: She'll know her husband sent 'em, an' wants -- to be -- forgiven. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Marriage; Reading; Clemency; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 THY LIP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lip thy eye thy brow thy single nature thy chorus thy marriage to Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TILL DEATH DO US JOIN, by ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till death us part Last Line: The life in god shall make us one forever. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 - (3), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee on thy bridal day Last Line: The world all love before thee. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A CITY COUSIN ABOUT TO BE MARRIED, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it true, what they tell me, my beautiful cousin Last Line: "and husbands exclaiming, ""I envy the man!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When peleus wedded on thessalia's plain Last Line: Grow impotent and rotten in a stew. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Pleasure; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A FRIEND UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know no fitter subject for your view Last Line: Prove good to you, and perfect as this wife. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A FRIEND UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER (2), by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, who understands you well would swear Last Line: That you the life, and this your copy were. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A JILTED SWAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get thee back neglected friends Last Line: Curst is she that marrieth. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Laughter; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 GENTLE-WOMAN [CONCERNING HER CHOICE], by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, heaven-designed soul! Last Line: May it not be amongst the sonnes of men. Variant Title(s): To [mrs. M.r.] Councel Concerning Her Choice Subject(s): Marriage; Nuns; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A. R. UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I would instruct or tutor you Last Line: What yourself are, what other wives should be. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO AN OLD WIFE TALKING TO HIM, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, beldam ugly! Thou'lt not find Last Line: That tom-a-lincoln and bow bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO BE OR NOT TO BE, by DAVID GITTLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Body and spirit close wedded Last Line: Be this our cherished creed. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO E.F, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt thy little bosom beats Last Line: That glitters on the stream. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO HIS WIFE, by SU WU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since our hair was plaited and we became man and wife Last Line: And if I die, we will go on thinking of each other. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO HIS WIFE (COMPOSED AT ROTTERDAM), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a city Last Line: I drink at rotterdam! Variant Title(s): Rotterdam;to His Wife Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips TO HIS WIFE WITH A KNIFE ON THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A knife, dear girl, cuts love they say Last Line: Save only--'cut and come again.' Variant Title(s): To Mary Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO JUDITH, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now by a ritual of legality Subject(s): Marriage; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MAKE A MARRIED LIFE HAPPY, by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brisk young wife, who did a fortune bring Last Line: To your vexations ne'er shall be an end. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MAKE THE WIFE KIND, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To make the wife kind, and to keep the house still Last Line: As to make, by your jealousy, horns for yourselves. Subject(s): Jealousy; Marriage; Trust; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MARY PRIDHAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tho' unseen! Tho' I have left behind Last Line: A father's blessing on thee, gentle maid! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving and moaning / under our coverings Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This you shall owe me-that your soul shall keep Last Line: Your joyous and impetuous infancy. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so it shall be, when you come to die Last Line: Climb slowly down those last dark stairs to bed. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 3. APOLOGY FOR NEGLECT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, my fair! Subdue those angry lights! Last Line: But never yours, nor your desired content. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 4. ON HER SINGING THE GLORIA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can that small voice assault the embanded skies Last Line: Poised, while the dawn within her east was grey. Subject(s): Marriage; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 5. IN HER ABSENCE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is her couch, this is her very nest Last Line: Who never yet broke promise or was late.' Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 6. AT THE SEASIDE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These tempers and incalculable hues Last Line: Corners and holes of soft indwelling night. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 7. ON DOMESTIC GOVERNMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the forgotten time ere mankind grew Last Line: Of my command and your obedience. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 8. AFTER RONSARD, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old, and I-if that should be Last Line: "when I was happy, beautiful, and young." Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MISS AURELIA C---R; ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDING, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, fair aurelia, cease to mourn Last Line: "you'll find your sister in his arms." Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MITHERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, mithers, o mithers! Last Line: That hauds a drucken wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. AND MRS. G. E. STALEY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since cunning cupid's mystic darts Last Line: Hold the sunshine in your heart. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. BARBAULD, WITH A MAP OF THE LAND OF MATRIMONY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sailor worn by toil and wet with storms Last Line: And I my destined captive hold too fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Marriage; Love - Erotic; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 7. JOYS OF LIFE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It's a fine thing to live and to give life Last Line: Which waits for you beyond the sepulchre. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 8. THE TRUEST LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: In the world's book so full of vulgar things Last Line: Of being just as true as when 'twas born. Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MRS. LEIGH UPON HER WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While all to this auspicious day Last Line: Not wear herself, the breeches. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY COUSIN CAREW RALEGH MARRYING MY LADY ALTHAM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy youth! That shalt possess Last Line: Oft destroy both smell and sight. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 HUSBAND, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "when from the world, I shall be tane" Last Line: For I'me a parting now from you Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Diamonds;farewell;marriage; Parting;weddings;husbands;wives TO MY HUSBAND'S FIRST GRAY HAIR, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES Poem Text First Line: Thou strange, unbidden guest! From whence Last Line: Such is thine errand, first gray hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre Subject(s): Aging; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY WIFE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY WIFE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who else, dear eyes of brown, could know or dream Last Line: To think how suddenly life's partings come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY WIFE, by JOHN EDWARD RAISER Poem Text First Line: I will be silent / e'en though her words Last Line: There's no demur. Alternate Author Name(s): Raiser, J. Edward Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery TO MY WIFE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two clouds that float together all the day Last Line: Points out the lights and open doors of home! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO ONE PERSUADING A LADY TO MARRIAGE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, bold youth; all's heaven here Last Line: More bright and large than his. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): An Answer To Another Persuading A Lady To Marriage Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO ONE WHO FAILED, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you failed, because you failed Last Line: To brute men, dowered with dying hearts. Subject(s): Errors; Failure; Friendship; Love; Marriage; Mistakes; Fallacies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO ONE WHO HAD LEFT HER CONVENT TO MARRY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago you gave yourself to god Last Line: Who knows? Next year may add a third, the devil. Subject(s): Convents; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO ROSEMARY AND BAIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wooing's ended; now my wedding's neere Last Line: When gloves are giving, guilded be you there. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO SILVIA TO WED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us (though late) at last (my silvia) wed Last Line: No man at one time, can be wise, and love. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO SPEAK OF WOE THAT IS IN MARRIAGE', by ROBERT LOWELL Poem 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 AUTHOR'S WIFE, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear alice, through much mockery of yours Last Line: Dear alice, I must dedicate to you. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE COMTESSE DE MOLANDE, ABOUT TO MARRY THE DUC DE LUXEMBOURG, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say ye that years roll on and ne'er return? Last Line: "and take the highest seat below the crown'd." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE EARL OF CREWE ON HIS MARRIAGE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the duo of love Last Line: There is little libretto. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE HUSBANDMAN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sown are the golden seeds in the smooth furrow Last Line: New life the furrows are giving. Subject(s): Caregivers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE LADIES, by MARY LEE CHUDLEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wife and servant are the same Last Line: You must be proud, if you'll be wise. Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And live I still to see relations gone Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!" Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War TO THE STREET PIANO: A LABOURER'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the day I worked and played Last Line: I hope to die to-night. Subject(s): Despair; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 TO VIOLET B. ON HER WEDDING DAY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet it is for love to live' Last Line: "sweeter yet." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TONIC, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the mother of three, and I'm thirty Last Line: "there's life in the old lady yet!" Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is late, my heart Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOWARD A DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem 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. THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fifty years through wind and sun and rain Last Line: We shall perchance awaken. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Churches; Gold; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRAGEDY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fly with me, and be my wife Last Line: They weep and they know not the reason why. Subject(s): Marriage; Tragedy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRANSMUTATION, by OLIVE WALDRON WARNER Poem Text First Line: Marriage ties are bound by rings Last Line: Marriage ties but drag at heel. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TREASURE SHARED, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: The tender wealth of happy married years Last Line: And tranquil sense of sweet proportion learned. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 3. TRISTRAM IN BRITTANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dawn loves the sunlight I love thee;' Last Line: So dawned the moonrise of their marriage night. Subject(s): Brittany, France; Love; Marriage; Moon; Sea; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 4. THE MAIDEN MARRIAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring watched her last moon burn and fade with may Last Line: All night safe sleeping in her maidenhood. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Sea; Spring; Tristram And Isolde; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TRUTH TOLD AT LAST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says pontius in rage, contradicting his wife Last Line: You're a cuckold, says she; do I tell you truth now?' Subject(s): Anger; Life; Marriage; Truth; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TRYING, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The husband and wife had planned it for a long time Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRYST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TSANKAWI, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men hiked on a loop trail Last Line: "you live, I live, we live." Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TWENTY-YEAR MARRIAGE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You keep me waiting in a truck Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MARRIED, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Do you remember how we came that day Last Line: And life itself is one more certainty. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWO THINGS, by AMIR MAHMUD IBN AMIR YAMINU'D-DIN TUGHRA'I Poem Text First Line: Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene Last Line: That he will not demand the debt until the judgment day. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn-i-yamin; Ibn Jemin Subject(s): Borrowers & Lenders; Marriage; Loans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWO WIVES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the shadow-white chamber silts the white Last Line: "back, you understand!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore." Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating UNDER THE SHEET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a terrible night! Does the night Last Line: A shape and a sheet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Night; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime UNION, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hirsute, his highness' beetle-browed defense Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UNTIL DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "make me no vows of constancy, dear friend" Last Line: "but while I live, be true" Subject(s): Fidelity;marriage; Faithfulness;constancy;weddings;husbands;wives UNWEDDED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her there in the evening sun Last Line: You waste your pity on such as she. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Love; Marriage; Women; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness UPON MY LORD BROGHILL'S WEDDING; DIALOGUE, SUCKLING AND BOND, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bed, dull man Last Line: Another, when they're ready, shows them game. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winds of winter glue Last Line: Sit unafraid. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In what soft language shall my thoughts get free Last Line: My spotless faith shall be for ever thine. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES & AKEXANDRA OF DENMARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would sing a song of gladness Last Line: Britain's daughter, albert's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Denmark; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Marriage; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Danes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Welshmen; Welshwomen 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 VISIONS: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou now hast the money, -- why longer delay? Last Line: "for ever, amen!"" the old mother exclaims." Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WALKEN HWOME AT NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You then, vor me, meade up your mind Last Line: I'll leäd ye right, you needèn doubt. Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WALKING HOME AT NIGHT; HUSBAND TO WIFE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You then for me made up your mind Last Line: I'll lead you right, you need not doubt. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WARNING, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as you never marry me, and I never marry you Last Line: To know that I never can marry you, and you never can marry me! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WAS HE HENPECKED?, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what it is, my dear Last Line: Said mrs. Dorking wisely. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism WATER CAN ONLY WRAP ME BUT LIFE MUST HOLD ME, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black man, from oklahoma Last Line: Love and exposure have become a poem. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Slavery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs WED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married him on christmas morn Last Line: Would I were dead. Subject(s): Ignorance; Love; Marriage; Sex; Unfaithfulness; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy WEDDED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some quick and bitter words we said Last Line: Now we are wed Subject(s): Hate;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives WEDDED (PROVENCAL AIR), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The happy bells shall ring Last Line: Marguerite. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDED BLISS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come and be my mate!' said the eagle to the hen Last Line: And the clam sucked, the salmon swam, alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism 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, 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 ANNIVERSARY, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: This is the anniversary of the day Last Line: To us, for all the ills life chose to send. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING BED IN MANGKUTANA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the village guesthouse Last Line: From the same soil. Subject(s): Indonesia; Marriage; Sex; Dutch East Indies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING BELLS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight shade is calmly falling Last Line: Sweetly sound the wedding bells. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING CAKE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem 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 WEDDING-WIND, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem 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 WEEP NOT FOR THOSE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb Last Line: Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Religion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology WELCOME, HUSBANDS, by MARCELLA ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: We extend to you a welcome hearty Last Line: Bestow. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; 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 WEST RUNNING BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Fred, where is north? Last Line: To-day will be the day of what we both said Subject(s): Marriage; Brooks; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The WHEN FOLKS ARE MARRIED, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When folks are married we extend our warm congratulations Last Line: "that is the time to come around and yell ""congratulations!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHEN I MEAN TO MARRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When do I mean to marry? - well Last Line: And look about me for a wife! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHEN MAIMIE MARRIED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When maimie married charley Last Line: When maimie married -- charley brown! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHERE IT WAS AT BACK THEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Husband, / last night I dreamt Subject(s): Marriage; Dreams; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nightmares WHERE WERE YOU?, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was planting bulbs, my hands deep in the earth Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation WHITE SHROUDS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From our kitchen window I watched the hard sleet chipping Last Line: To husband the small logs, two at a time, onto the fire. Subject(s): Cold; Homeless; Marriage; Winter; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHY DOHERTY DIED, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: It was out on the bogan near billabong creek Last Line: "faith! 'tis now that I know why poor doherty died." Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Obesity; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHY DON'T THE MEN PROPOSE?, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't the men propose, mamma? Last Line: Why won't the men propose? Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are some of us Last Line: We swim like a fish for his brother Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had a couple the oblique way Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE IS AWAY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh welcome, lone cricket, thy song Last Line: The wife who is far, far away. Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness WIFE POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it's clear at last, she dropped Last Line: And hot clouds of the old days of summer. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE TO HUSBAND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I went past you down this hill Last Line: And nought had passed of all that was of yore? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE TO HUSBAND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dust, and thou art quick and glad Last Line: Some grace of memory, fair howe'er she be. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE TO HUSBAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon the faults in me Last Line: I must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime Subject(s): Marriage; Wind; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WITH A TOAST TO THE BRIDE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They met, they looked, they sighed, they loved Last Line: To substitute for love. Subject(s): Marriage; Toasts; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIVES, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think no husband comprehends Last Line: She bears her own, and equal, share. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIVES BY THE DOZEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O death! How thou spoil'st the best project of life! Last Line: Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WOMAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an element of power Last Line: A careful mother, virtuous wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Housewives; Marriage; Mothers; Parents; Women; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood WOMAN'S WILL, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men dying make their wills - but wives Last Line: The gentle dames have had? Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A' (1), by ALEXANDER ROSS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: The bride cam' out o' the byre Last Line: If I could get but a man!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WORK, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pushing off on her back out Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WORKS AND DAYS: MARRIAGE, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring not a wife to your home too soon or too late Last Line: Strong you may be, but unripe you'll shrivel away. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WRITTEN [OR LINES] IN A YOUNG LADY'S ALBUM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty task, miss s -, to ask Last Line: I'm not a single man. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives YOU GOTTA TAKE OUT MILT, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ran into miss adventure Subject(s): Murder; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives YOUNG COUPLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is open to the turquoise sky Last Line: Charm the blue of their window instead! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ZOO-KEEPER'S WIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can stay awake all night, if need be --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Animals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 2. DEATH OF ALTHEETOR, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon over meles' grave the wild flower dropt Last Line: With all her house; and seeks her own acacia grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jews; Love; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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