Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON MARRIAGE, by THOMAS FLATMAN 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 | ||||||||
How happy a thing were a wedding, -- And a bedding. If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day; But to live with her all a man's life, For ever and for aye, Till she grow as grey as a cat, Good faith, Mr. Parson, excuse me from that! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ODD WOMAN by MADELINE DEFREES THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER by MARIANNE MOORE MY KIND OF MAN by ANNE WALDMAN THE TWO OLD BACHELORS by EDWARD LEAR THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE A CONSISTENT GIRL by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS AN APPEAL TO CATS IN THE BUSINESS OF LOVE; SONG by THOMAS FLATMAN A CHARACTER OF A BELLY-GOD; CATIUS AND HORACE by THOMAS FLATMAN |
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