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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WEDDING, by SIDNEY LANIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O marriage-bells, your clamor tells Last Line: Macon, georgia, 1865. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | |||
O MARRIAGE-BELLS, your clamor tells Two weddings in one breath. She marries whom her love compels: -- And I wed Goodman Death! My brain is blank, my tears are red; Listen, O God: -- " I will," he said: -- And I would that I were dead. Come groomsman Grief and bridesmaid Pain Come and stand with a ghastly twain. My Bridegroom Death is come o'er the meres To wed a bride with bloody tears. Ring, ring, O bells, full merrily: Life-bells to her, death-bells to me: O Death, I am true wife to thee! MACON, GEORGIA, 1865. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV A BIRTHDAY SONG by SIDNEY LANIER |
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