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Subject: LOVE - MARITAL
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50 POEMS: 42, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is more thicker than forget
Last Line: Is higher than the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Love - Marital


A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness
Last Line: Quite so emphatically!
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is like a singing bird
Last Line: Is come, my love is come to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Variant Title(s): The Blessing
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A BLUE VALENTINE; FOR ALINE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsignore / right reverend bishop valentinus
Last Line: "for wearing a blue gown."
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Holidays; Kilmer, Aline (1888-1941); Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A CHANGE OF VOICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I heard a lady near my door
Last Line: Knowing the wretch has no more money?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A LEAP-YEAR EPISODE, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I forget that winter night
Last Line: The nellie who came to woo.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A LETTER TO DAPHNIS, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This to the crown and blessing of my life
Last Line: Would you but soon return, and speak it here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus, make haste: the day's too long; be gone
Last Line: By all our loves conjure him not to stay.
Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness


A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, by ANNE BRADSTREET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life - nay, more
Last Line: I here, thou there, yet both but one.
Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness


A MARRIAGE RING, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ring, so worn as you behold
Last Line: Worn with life's care, love yet was love.
Variant Title(s): His Mother's Wedding-ring;his Late Wife's Wedding Ring
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A PAVANE FOR THE NURSERY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now touch the air softly
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A RECOLLECTION, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew that I should be his bride
Last Line: Which blesses every hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june
Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes


A STANZA TO HIS WIFE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long be thy life! - and richly crowned!
Last Line: May thy endearing virtues live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away
Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement


A WEDDING MARCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clash your cymbals, maids, to-day
Last Line: Shout aloud for cynthia!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium


A WEDDING TOAST, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology


A WOMAN AT HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Peace to his ashes!
Last Line: But never a lover.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


ABDUCTION, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some things I do not profess to understand
Last Line: Beyond the rapture and the dread?
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age


ACHE OF MARRIAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Two by two in the ark of %the ache of it
Subject(s): Love - Marital


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


ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have all been in rooms
Last Line: God bless you. Guilt is magical
Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage


ADVICE OF GRACE, by JUANA GOERGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 9 needles %threaded
Last Line: To frighten off indigestion
Subject(s): Advice; Love - Marital


AFTER BEING IN LOVE, THE NEXT RESPONSIBILITY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn me like a waterwheel turning a millstone
Last Line: That springs from being in love
Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali
Subject(s): Love - Marital


AFTER THE WEDDING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought we never should be rid of them!
Last Line: To find our own past in their future there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Daughters; Love - Marital; Marriage; Parents; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood


AMORETTI: 65, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain
Last Line: And spotlesse pleasure builds her sacred bowre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To these, whom death again did wed
Last Line: Whose day shall never die in night.
Variant Title(s): Epitaph Upon A Young Married Couple Dead And Buryed Together
Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AN EPITHALAMION, OR MARRIAGE SONG .. LADY ELIZABETH AND COUNT PALATINE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Haile bishop valentine, whose day this is
Last Line: Till which houre, wee thy day enlarge, o valentine.
Variant Title(s): An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song On Lady Elizabeth
Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium


ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This love is as good
Last Line: Will be food set before us, %dates and honey, bread and wine
Subject(s): Love - Marital


AND WHEN I DIE I HOPE MY SOUL ASCENDS SLOWLY, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Will, for me, be %time %to adore
Subject(s): Love - Marital


ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, SELS., by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Love; Love - Marital


ANNIVERSARY OF THE AIR, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Past storefronts lit among the dusk-swept avenues
Last Line: With thanksgiving to our lady - the color is enough
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Marriage


ANY WIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody knows but you and I, my dear
Last Line: Love by its pangs, love that endures for love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; God; Grief; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


APPLES OF GOLD IN A NETWORK OF SILVER (FOR A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have walked the trail together
Last Line: Fifty years.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Gold; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


ART OF DECEIVING A HUSBAND, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was about to omit the art of deceiving a lhusband
Last Line: Often a maid will do all you would like to, and more
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


AS I DIG FOR WILD ORCHIDS, by IZUMI SHIKIBU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It is the deeply-bedded root %that I desire, %not the flower
Subject(s): Love - Marital


ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If a lovely maiden's foot
Last Line: And their wild perfume.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations


AT HOME, by SHELLEY SAVREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always promised myself if we ever
Last Line: Rocking to the rhythm of traffic going by
Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital


AT THE DINNER TABLE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat at dinner in my prime
Last Line: In jest there fifty years before.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AT THE OLD FARM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, 't is true. The blinds are closed, and the front
Last Line: "that, before he went, he spoke to the ""dear wife"" tenderly."
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


AT THE WEDDING MARCH, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God with honour hang your head
Last Line: Deals triumph and immortal years.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen
Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism


AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen
Last Line: Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid
Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights


BALLAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back to the river so lately pass'd o'er
Last Line: In a single grave repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Death; French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802); Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BANGLE-SELLERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bangle-sellers are we who bear
Last Line: And worships the gods at her husband's side.
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love - Marital; Worship; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thunder woke me to the early dark, I lay awake listening
Last Line: Even the barrier of a blessing.
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fear; Lightning; Love - Marital; Lightning Rods; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


BASE METAL, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Troth might be split passed %between two sets %of lips in the first teen kiss
Last Line: To himself or to the thousands, acting out %a sexual riff on love
Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Single People


BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE, by ANNE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We used to talk of so many things
Last Line: Strange, is it not, that I love you more?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stark, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN, by ANNE BRADSTREET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things within this fading world hath end
Last Line: Who with salt tears this last farewel did take.
Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mothers; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness


BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota
Last Line: That if I stepped out of my body I would break %into blossom
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Variant Title(s): The Blessin
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature


BOOK OF SONG, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night the cicada chirps
Last Line: Now that I have met her, %my heart is serene
Subject(s): Love - Marital


BREATH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She took his breath away
Last Line: Equipped, he set out
Subject(s): Breath; Love - Marital


BRIDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call to me, love, call to me loudly
Last Line: Into the gardens of %dark blue
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


BRIDE SINGS (SONG OF SONGS. [KING JAMES VERSION]), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies
Last Line: Mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


BUTTERFLY SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bride %sips about one dewdrop
Last Line: Of the butterfly wine
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


BY THE TRAIN STATION AT ASTRAPOVA, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pace beside the tracks, a word waiting
Last Line: I would sit by the fire %trance-lit. God, forgive me. %everything
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love - Marital


CALL IT A GOOD MARRIAGE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call it a good marriage
Last Line: Two deaths by suicide
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


CALLING-ONE'S-OWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wake up! Flowers of the forest, sky-climbing birds of the prairie
Last Line: Wake up! Wake up! My beloved
Subject(s): Love - Marital


CASTLE BY THE SEA, by JUSTINUS KERNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hast thou seen that lordly castle
Last Line: No maiden was by her side'
Subject(s): Castles; Courts And Courtiers; Love - Marital


CERTAINLY THE DEER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a few places like this left
Last Line: Now clearly visible, now disappearing slowly into the swamp
Subject(s): Cold; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Travel


CHILDREN AND I SHALL MEET AGAIN, by PIA SEAGRAVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This son grows tall and he grows
Last Line: The walls on knotted sheets
Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Love - Marital; Memory


CHOICE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the souls that stand create
Last Line: To all the lists of clay!
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


COME, MY BELOVED, by M. M.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, my beloved, to meet the bride
Last Line: With joy receive the sabbath bride.
Subject(s): Brides; Jews; Love - Marital; Sabbath; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Sunday


COMMEMORATION, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I could proclaim
Last Line: That strong and subtle chain
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage


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


COMPLAINT, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         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


CONFESSION TO BE TRACED ON A BIRTHDAY CAKE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lots of people are richer than me
Last Line: I prefer to continue my life as me - %for nobody else has frances
Subject(s): Love - Marital


CORNELIA FROM THE GRAVE TO HER HUSBAND, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing could save me -- not our love
Last Line: From the wedding torch to the torch beside my bier
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


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


COUPLE (FOR ISABEL ARCHER), by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You turn to the window, and whatever it was
Last Line: To collide, each with its destined mate
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


COUPLE THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She says I found his letters to another woman
Last Line: She reaches out and lays her hand on his
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Psychoanalysis; Relationships


COURTSHIP OF INANNA AND DUMUZI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He has sprouted; he has burgeoned
Last Line: How sweet was your allure
Subject(s): Love - Marital


CRAZY MENU, by TESS GALLAGHER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last of his toothpaste, last of his wheat chex, last
Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Food & Eating; Grief; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


CRAZY MENU, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last of his toothpaste, last of his wheat chex, last
Last Line: Every artery and nerve of us, into the rest %of our commemorative lives
Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Food And Eating; Grief; Love - Marital


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


DANCE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would have each couple turn
Last Line: Out of the multitude %in which you come and go. %love changes, and in change is true
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Love - Marital


DEAR GOD I PRAYED, ALL UNAFRAID, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I prayed for long ago
Subject(s): Love - Marital


DEAR LORD, WE'VE BUILT THIS LITTLE HOUSE, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And make this house a home
Subject(s): Love - Marital


DEAR ONE, I WAS CROSS LAST NIGHT, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Good morning, %dear'
Subject(s): Love - Marital


DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone
Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow.
Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips


DELIVERY, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bub will let you take your sweet time picking
Last Line: A linen someone embroidered in the spring
Subject(s): Babies; Love - Marital; Mothers


DIALOGUE, by ANDRES BELLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: How I should love thee, cloris, but
Last Line: Did triumph o'er the lion of old spain!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital


DIVINA COMMEDIA, SELS., by DANTE ALIGHIERI                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Love - Marital


DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away: let nought to love displeasing
Last Line: And I'll go wooing in my boys
Subject(s): Family Life;happiness;love - Marital; Relatives;joy;delight;wedded Love;marriage - Love


DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is calm to-night
Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


DREAMS IN DIALOGUE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How suddenly her face on the plateau
Last Line: Your eyes made out of diamonds fixed on me
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital


DRIFTROSE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What weird rewards the waves wash up
Last Line: Including that wet rose you held in your hand
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Problems


DUSK, by SARAH GORHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider dusk %that drapes the forest in a monk's
Last Line: Why we married so long ago
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Pleasure


ECLOGUE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jane sneed began it: my poor john, alas!
Last Line: Beneath ground as above.
Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


ENVELOPE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Helen goldin, he wrote in black ball point pen on the envelope
Last Line: He had invoked and to which she would respond filled his mind
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty


EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER, by KATHERINE DYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day
Last Line: My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come
Alternate Author Name(s): Dyer, Catherine
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mourning; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement


EPITHALAMION, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye learned sisters which have oftentimes
Last Line: And for short time an endlesse moniment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium


EPITHALAMION FOR BILL AND KRIS, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poised at the threshold of a dream
Last Line: Nine bows! Salutations! Praise
Subject(s): Gratitude; Love - Marital; Wedding Song


EPITHALAMION MADE AT LINCOLNES INNE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun-beames in the east are spread
Last Line: To night puts on perfection, and a womans name.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


EPITHALAMION: 3. RAYSING OF THE BRIDEGROOM, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though it be some divorce to thinke of you
Last Line: The fire of thy inflaming eyes, and of thy loving heart.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium


EPITHALAMIUM, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound, - sound the notes of joy
Last Line: And endless blessings crown their days!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EPITHALAMIUM ON A LATE HAPPY MARRIAGE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When hymen once the mutual bands has wove
Last Line: And's a fair step to reach the heav'n above
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


EROS TURANNOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: She fears him, and will always ask
Last Line: Where down the blind are driven.
Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Destiny; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth
Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


EULALIE; A SONG, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwelt alone / in a world of moan
Last Line: While ever to her young eulalie upturns her violet eye.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


EVERYWHERE IS HERE, SELS., by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By this exchange of eyes, this encirclement
Last Line: In a double star, the god above the green
Subject(s): Love - Marital


FAB FAB / BLUE-GOLD GYROBEACON WATER I'VE A CONTRACT TO, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You see I do specialize %swan
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Poetry And Poets


FAR BUGLES, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain road bent round a cliff
Last Line: Taking, and leaving, the old, imponderable load.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FIGHT, by III FRANK S. PALMISANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight, we avoid the sting of sharp words, finding separate
Last Line: I drape my arm over your sleeping body, hoping to take you in %and never let go
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Togetherness


FIRELIGHT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years together without yet a cloud
Last Line: Apart, and would be hers if he had known.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FIRST OR LAST?; A WIFE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARGARET VELEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life ebbs from me - I must die
Last Line: Is it the first kiss -- or the last?
Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FLOWER-GIRL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am slim as a betel leaf
Last Line: And I bewitch him with my eyes
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


FLOWRETS, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little blossoms, unpretentious flowrets
Last Line: I and you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FLUTE OF INTERIOR TIME IS PLAYED WHETHER WE HEAR IT OR NOT, by KABIR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Where else have you heard a sound like this?
Variant Title(s): The Soun
Subject(s): Love - Marital


FOLK SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will give my love an apple without e'er a core
Last Line: My heart is the palace wherein she may be, %and she may unlock it without any key
Subject(s): Love - Marital


FOR A GOLDEN WEDDING, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young love is passion
Variant Title(s): Old Lov
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age


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 REMARRIAGE (OF CATO AND MARCIA), by LUCAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No garlands on the marriage doores were worne
Last Line: Silent: content with brutus auspicie
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Subject(s): Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Love - Marital; Marriage


FOR A SECOND MARRIAGE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orchards, we linger here because
Last Line: Concentric rings, those many marriages %that life on each living thing bestows
Variant Title(s): Upon A Second Marriag
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


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 ANASTASIA'S GRAVE, by FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alas, alas, the winter of fierce hell
Last Line: More brightly, anastasia, than the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Julian The Apostate
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


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 BOTH OF YOU, THE DIVORCE BEING FINAL, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot celebrate with doleful music
Last Line: For something else ever to happen now
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


FOR POORER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me that bit of rag; or take the boy
Last Line: Elsewhere, and crept away again, in tears
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


FORGET-ME-NOT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gallant knight and his betroth'd bride
Last Line: And it will solace me in a lonely hour.
Subject(s): Courtship; Drowning; Love - Marital; Memory; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FRIENDSHIP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alter? When the hills do
Last Line: I will of you!
Subject(s): Daffodils; Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more
Last Line: And feel a kind of regret.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs


FROM 'CIVIL MARRIAGE', by PABLO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember %at different times
Last Line: Now, perhaps in a few years %light light light
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Peru


FRUSTRATION, by ANNE SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked with paul in starlight
Last Line: How I liked the weather!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FULL MOON, by LAJOS KASSAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm middle-aged, a male
Last Line: Who just found his tongue
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude


GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the july sun they were leading me to the prado
Subject(s): Love - Marital


GOD, LET ME BE ALL HE EVER DREAMED, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I was all he ever dreamed %of loveliness and laughter
Subject(s): Love - Marital


GOD, MAKE ME WORTHY TO BE HIS WIFE, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: God, make me worthy to be his wife
Subject(s): Love - Marital


GOOD HARVEST, by YEN CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last winter, %the agricultural co-op was formed.
Last Line: Is a harvest of bliss and love
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage


GRASSES, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the distance, when purpling clouds lean down close
Last Line: And is going-breath, shadow-feather, cloud
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital


GRISELDA: CHAPTER 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An idle story with an idle moral!
Last Line: Was slow of speech, or that he slept too well!
Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Marital; Novels & Novelists; Women; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To field and forest
Last Line: The rapture of song!
Subject(s): Brides; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Spring; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HARDWIRED, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zapped dandelions, blown streetlight heads -- o hardwired
Last Line: Of heat lighting just before a storm
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships


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


HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a woman that you forsake her
Last Line: And the hearth-fire and the home-acre %to go with the old grey widow-maker?
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; War


HEART AND SOUL, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fair! O sweet! When I do look on thee
Last Line: Heart and soul do sing in me.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Tune Of A Spanish Song;sonnet: 7
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HER FATHER'S HOUSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind the father's house a cool wind
Last Line: Is shining on my forehead
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


HERE IS MUSIC: 16. CHANT ROYAL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because I, spiritually starving, knew
Last Line: An-hunger'd and full fain for former happiness.
Subject(s): Aging; Happiness; Love - Marital; Youth; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT JUDEX, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hair, strands of copper blent with skeins of gold
Last Line: Supreme in self-abandon, artist effortless.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Passion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT MEDICUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We two, that once were young, to-day
Last Line: Since first we looked, longed, loved ... Stood paramours.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HERO AND LEANDER: THE MARRIAGE OF HERO AND LEANDER, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They had a wedding, but no dancing there
Last Line: For short time dates their strange stoln marriage-rites
Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Love - Marital


HINT OF HONSHU, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, leave it, leave it, goldin cried, referring
Last Line: The brush that sketched my mind's unhappy paintings
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Memory; Paintings And Painters


HIS OWN TRUE WIFE, by WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hidden lovers' woes
Last Line: Love so sweet bestows in all men's sight his own true wife!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolfram Von Eschonbach
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 3. A SECOND PLACE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would, indeed, that heaven had made me meek
Last Line: That loves me wholly, and is love indeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HOME BURIAL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He saw her from the bottom of the stairs
Last Line: "I'll follow and bring you back by force. I will! -- "
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HONOURABLE DISCHARGE, by ELAINE BANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most of all I missed the uniform
Last Line: To meet the train that brought my husband home
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Military; Soldiers; Women And War; World War Ii


HUSBAND AND WIFE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever I said and whatever you said, I love you
Last Line: "I love you."
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HYMN TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete for this holy temple
Last Line: Immortal nectar in golden cups, %fill all with sudden ecstasy
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical


I AM YOUR WIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, let me lay my head tonight upon your breast"
Last Line: "and, oh, I thank my god tonight I am your wife"
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love


I DIED FOR BEAUTY, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What can be said
Last Line: In the shallows just below %my pelvic hollow
Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Skeletons


I LOOKED INTO YOUR FACE AND KNEW THAT YOU WERE TRUE, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Till on my heart it quietly dawned %-love is of god!
Subject(s): Love - Marital


I MET YOU YEARS AGO WHEN OF ALL THE MEN I KNEW, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With the closeness of these years, %hero-worship, too!
Subject(s): Love - Marital


I NEED YOUR HELP IN THE EVENING, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But this blissful oblivion %of sleep
Subject(s): Love - Marital


I SHALL BE MARRIED ON MONDAY MORNING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I was walking one morning in spring
Last Line: When I am his bride, on monday morning
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


I UNPETALLED YOU, LIKE A ROSE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Was filled with a fragrance, %enormous and live
Subject(s): Love - Marital


I'M CROSS WITH GOD WHO HAS WRECKED THIS GENERATION, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The son survives; my wife died
Last Line: Fruit from high branches, but how short-sighted %is banging the apple tree?
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Marital


IF 'TIS LOVE TO WISH YOU NEAR, by CHARLES DIBDIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: If this be loving—then I love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


IF EVERYTHING HAPPENS THAT CAN'T EB DONE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We're wonderful one times one
Subject(s): Love - Marital


IF I BUY A HORSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I would rather walk with you
Subject(s): Love - Marital


IN A LONDON FLAT, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You look like a widower,' she said
Last Line: That she had forgotten them where she slept.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


IN THE CHIROPRACTOR'S OFFICE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman is talking about her late husband, is talking about
Last Line: Pair of new black shoes for his funeral, 'new black shoes for %elwood to walk to jesus'
Subject(s): Chiropractors; Love - Marital; Poverty; Women


IN THE MONTH OF MAY, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the month of may when all leaves open
Last Line: I would like us to spend the night
Subject(s): Love - Marital; May (month); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


IN THE MONTH OF MAY, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the month of may when all leaves open
Last Line: Along the roads, I see so many places %I would like us to spend the night
Subject(s): Love - Marital; May (month)


IN THE PLAGUE YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old cartoon the terrified
Last Line: In death's and mummy's %and big daddy's one shrinking eye
Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Quarrels


IN THIS CORNER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For as we are hurtling, sucked
Last Line: In this corner stopped still
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Togetherness


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


INFLECTIONS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The aging matriarch lost, in a stroke, her verbs,
Last Line: Listening to the warbler, I thought of the pilot who breaks %through fog to find himself over the ru
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital


IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS, SELS., by EURIPIDES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessed are they %who share the delights of aphrodite
Last Line: Ten thousand times among citizens, %it makes a city great
Subject(s): Love - Marital


IS IT FOR NOW OR FOR ALWAYS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I take you now and for always, %for always is always now
Subject(s): Love - Marital


IT WAS A QUIET WAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For sunrise stopped upon the place %and fastened it in dawn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1053; Poem: 57
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital


IT WAS SO VERY GOOD OF GOD TO LET MY DREAMS COME TRUE, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And eyes of steel blue
Subject(s): Love - Marital


JAMES LEE'S WIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, love, but a day
Last Line: When I should be dead of joy, james lee?
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Disillusion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


JANE'S MARRIAGE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jane went to paradise
Last Line: Glory, love, and honour unto england's jane
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


JEAN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a' the airts the wind can blaw
Last Line: But minds me of my jean.
Variant Title(s): I Love My Jean
Subject(s): Absence; Armour, Jean (1764-1834); Love - Marital; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Burns, Jean Armour (1764-1834); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


JEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We now mid hope vor better cheer
Last Line: An' leäve them times behine, jeäne.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


JOHN ANDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John anderson, my jo, john, / when we were first acquent
Last Line: John anderson, my jo.
Subject(s): Aging; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sex; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


JOHN OF TOURS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: John of tours is back with peace
Last Line: "aye, and still you have room to spare, / for you must shut the baby there"
Subject(s): Death;graves;love - Marital;peace; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;wedded Love;marriage - Love;


JOHN-JOHN, by THOMAS MACDONAGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt last night of you, john-john
Last Line: And that's my prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a game for only two to play at
Last Line: She could not banish him from her soft bed
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


KNOW DEEPLY, KNOW THYSELF MORE DEEPLY, SELS., by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths
Last Line: She is a made-up lie, a dyed immortelle %of infinite staleness
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Love - Marital


KNOWING, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise
Last Line: Beyond the body itself, we are making love
Subject(s): Love - Marital


L'ENVOI, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you remember how the sun
Last Line: And I am mrs. Brown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LA JOLLA, 1943-1993, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in the cove at la jolla
Last Line: Being carried over a threshold
Subject(s): La Jolla, California; Love - Marital; Parents; Romance


LAVENDER'S BLUE (2), by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly, lavender's green
Last Line: You shall be king, dilly, dilly, when I am queen
Subject(s): Lavender; Love - Marital


LEAVE A LITTLE LIGHT ON SOMEWHERE, IN SOME ROOM, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The desolation dusk can bring, %to being lonely
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LET RAKES FOR PLEASURE RANGE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let rakes for pleasure range the town
Last Line: And wedlock's bands make johnny jenny's.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LIFE IS MOTION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In oklahoma, / bonnie and josie
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LIFE IS MOTION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In oklahoma, %bonnie and josie
Last Line: They cried, %'ohoyahyo, %ohoo'... %celebrating the marriage %of flesh and air
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


LIGHT, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think it's light, that something moving beyond the moment
Last Line: And how that continues, will not dry up, stubborn, rivering beyond
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Memory


LIGHTNING SNAKES (A LOVE POEM), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tongues of the lightning snakes flicker and twist, one to the other
Last Line: Gleams on the cabbage palms and on the shining leaves
Variant Title(s): Son
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LIKE A LAVEROCK IN THE LIFT, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's we two, it's we two, it's we two for aye
Last Line: Sitting by the golden sheaves on our wedding day.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LINES WRITTEN TO HIS WIFE [WHILE ON A VISIT TO UPPER INDIA], by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou wert by my side, my love
Last Line: As then shall meet in thee!
Variant Title(s): Verses To Mrs. Heber
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LINES, WRITTEN ON SEEING MY HUSBAND'S PICTURE, PAINTED WHEN YOUNG, by ANNA SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Those are the features, those the smiles
Last Line: And pity pour her healing tear.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Paintings And Painters; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LITTLE MORE TIME, LORD, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For the so much to do
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LITTLE THINGS THAT BUG ME, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Or body needed to be whole
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LONGING FOR THE EMPEROR, by IWA NO HIME    Poem Source                    
First Line: My lord has departed
Last Line: Can my love fade too
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital; Marriage


LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ELEANOR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord thomas he was a bold forester
Last Line: That sooner did depart
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


LORD WALTER'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But why do you go!' said the lady, while both sat under the yew
Last Line: "come, dora, my darling, my angel, and help me to ask him to dine."
Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back
Last Line: So I did sit and eat.
Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology


LOVE 10, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mother you you father me vice versa
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE 10, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mother you you father me vice versa
Last Line: Proceeding down the avenue %clutching a clue, love's puzzle %not yet, not ever done
Subject(s): Love - Marital


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 2, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Used to each other to the point that we
Last Line: Even if for us %the grass has gone invisible with use %he sees it. So we keep each other green
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


LOVE 8, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love as the secret doubling of bodies
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE 8, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love as the secret doubling of bodies
Last Line: The centripetal/ %centrifugal juggle of two matched affections
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LOVE AND MARRIAGE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The love of man for woman and woman for man
Last Line: But in the beloved shall he find him, and in the sight of the beloved shall he adore him...
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION A), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward
Last Line: Bring her to my arms on the first may night.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Marital; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE POEM FOR A WIFE, 2, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a night of rage
Last Line: By my only love's only %insatiable envy
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LOVE SONG, SELS., by RAINER MARIA RILKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LOVE SONG: I AND THOU, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is plumb, level, or square:
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE SONG: I AND THOU, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is plumb, level or square
Last Line: A help, a love, a you, a life
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LOVE WITHOUT CLINGING; CRY IF YOU MUST, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: So- %love!
Subject(s): Love - Marital


LOVE'S AUTUMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not lose a single silvery ray
Last Line: But there as here, thou smilest, love! On me!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE'S CALENDAR; TO AN ABSENT WIFE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O since 'tis decreed by the envious fates
Last Line: It may fairly be reckoned a year!
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE'S EVENING, by ANNA C. CARRAHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love cannot always burn at noonday heat
Last Line: And wait, with you, the coming of the night.
Subject(s): Aging; Love - Marital; Memory; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE'S FAIRYLAND; TO FLORENCE ON HER WEDDING DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is beauty on the mountains
Last Line: There dawns another day.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Passion; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (1), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love. You'd hate it here: flies and the wind
Last Line: As you asked, I'm taking photographs. Love, mairi
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (2), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love, greetings from my island. Mine indeed
Last Line: You might not even get this letter. Love
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (3), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alec-I hadn't thought to tell you this
Last Line: To us next year. I shall invite her! Love
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Nature; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (4), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alec, old dear. I miss you. The weather's changed
Last Line: And have added-you shall see!-a group of clergymen!
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland)


MALLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah well-a-day! What will become of me?
Last Line: My door stands open; open are my arms
Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love


MARGARET'S BRIDAL EVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old grey mother she thrummed on her knee
Last Line: And the bird sings over the roses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Prophecy & Prophets; Roses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MARITAE SUAE, by WILLIAM PHILPOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the flowers rising now
Last Line: If fairer than they were before!
Variant Title(s): To His Wife
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MARRIAGE, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem 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 GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should I get married? Should I be good?
Last Line: So I wait bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage


MARRIAGE, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I look at the nude woman
Last Line: In paris, indeed -- puff
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


MARRIAGE, by MARK STRAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind comes from opposite poles
Last Line: The wind is everything to them
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Love - Marital


MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So different, this man
Last Line: In a field.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MARRIAGE, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Incarnate for our marriage you appeared
Last Line: May our heirs seal us in a single urn, %a single spirit never to return
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage


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 OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by JAY MACPHERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth draws her breath so gently, heaven bends
Last Line: Of queen earth and her fancy-fellow heaven
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


MARRIAGE OF SOULS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That heat! %that terrible heat
Last Line: Unfused %and unfusing
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


MARRIAGES, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When those of us who seem
Last Line: Whether they forget %what they wanted first or not %they tarnish at quiet anchor
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


MARRIED COUPLES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When love is strong in married couples
Last Line: How she and I have loved each other!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MARRIED LOVE, by KUAN TAO-SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and I %have so much love
Last Line: In death we will share one bed
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MARRIED LOVE, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are uncurling their first
Last Line: With longing's thunder rolling heavy in our arms
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MARRIED LOVE, by LEE ROSSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It must have been
Last Line: Lying there in bed %right next to you?
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MARRIED LOVERS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come away, the clouds are high
Last Line: All the world is waiting. Come!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


MARRIED PEOPLE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young rollo and alice got married last
Last Line: Do.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Poverty; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG. ROSES, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now hath flora robbed her bowers
Last Line: So doth a bridegroom his bride's bed adorn.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MASTER SPEED, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No speed of wind or water rushing by
Last Line: That life is only life for evermore %together wing to wing and oar to oar
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 3. SYSTEM, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll clean my desk up bye and bye
Last Line: I wish you wouldn't do it!
Subject(s): Housewives; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MENELAUS AND HELEN, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hot through troy's ruin menelaus broke
Last Line: And paris slept on by scamander side.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Soldiers' Writings; Trojan War; World War I; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War


MIDSUMMER EVE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let silence with her long pale hands ravish the / violin
Last Line: Oh! Elfin hands to-night.
Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MIND OF ABSOLUTE TRUST, by SENG-TS'AN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great way isn't difficult
Subject(s): Buddhism; Love - Marital; Religion


MINUTE I HEARD MY FIRST LOVE STORY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: They're in each other all along
Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MODERN LOVE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By this he knew she wept with waking eyes
Last Line: Each wishing for the sword that severs all.
Subject(s): Divorce; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MODERN LOVE: 34, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes
Last Line: Niagara or vesuvius is deferred.
Variant Title(s): "madam Would Speak With Me. So, Now It Comes"";
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MONODY ON THE DEATH OF HIS LADY, SELS., by GEORGE LYTTELTON                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MOUNTAIN BRIDE, by ROBERT MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say revis found a flatrock
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MOUNTAIN BRIDE, by ROBERT MORGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say revis found a flatrock
Last Line: And the body beginning to swell
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MOURNING THE DEAD: IN MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND, by SHANG JINGLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your name will be known forever
Last Line: My chastity complements your integrity
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mourning


MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O soul of mine, look out and see
Last Line: My bride -- my bride that is to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love - Marital; Marriage; Soul; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MY DEAREST JULIA, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Can or can I not live on
Last Line: Forgetful of my love forgone?'
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MY DEAREST WIFE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had mona been, as many are
Last Line: At last to where my love is gone.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MY GARDEN, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two steps from my garden rail
Last Line: Burst with envy and despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall
Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MY LOVE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not as all other women are
Last Line: Sweet homes wherein to live and die.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; White, Maria; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MY LOVE HAS LONG BEEN YOURS, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Then calmly helped yourself to it
Subject(s): Love - Marital


MY MOTHER MADE ME MARRY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A stick and bad times
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


MY NEIGHBOR BUYS WHITE HYACINTHS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My neighbor drives her car at dawn
Last Line: Because of life I miss.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MY ROAD LEADS TO YOU, by CLARA TULL MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my road' - I heard a woman say
Last Line: My road is the road which leads me to you.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trusty, dusky, vivid, true
Last Line: Gave to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): To My Wife
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology


NEVER LET IT END, GOD, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Never let it end, god, %never-please
Subject(s): Love - Marital


NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON TEARS, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: -but kindly- %with a kiss
Subject(s): Love - Marital


NEW MARRIAGE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It doesn't ask that either party love or honor (let alone obey)
Last Line: The ceremony ends with each partner mumbling, % I guess.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage


NIGHT BILL TOLD ME HE LOVED ME, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And if odes have morals): %thank you, charles!
Subject(s): Love - Marital


NIGHT BRIDE, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your breath is intoxicating: fresh as an olive branch
Last Line: To recognize themselves in the one wrapped in translucent cloth
Subject(s): Love - Marital


NO TIME LIKE THE OLD TIME, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young
Last Line: There are no loves like our old loves, -- god bless our loving wives!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


NOW THAT I LOVE YOU AND SEE WITH EYES BY LOVE ENLIGHTENED, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: When with the woman he adores?
Subject(s): Love - Marital


NOW YOU WILL FEEL NO RAIN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And may your days be good and long upon the earth
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love - Marital


NOW, BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM, HELP TO SING, by BEN JONSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That they may both ere day %rise perfect every way
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


NOWHERE NEAR ALBUQUERQUE, by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Should have saved money
Last Line: Her silver hair in pocahontas braids
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships


NUPTIAL SLEEP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At length their long kiss severed with sweet smart
Last Line: He woke, and wondered more: for there she lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


OATH OF FRIENDSHIP (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shang ya! / I want to be your friend
Last Line: Not till then will I part from you
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);friendship;love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love


OBSCURE NIGHT OF THE SOUL, by JOHN CROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon an obscure night
Last Line: Among the lilies, and forgetting them
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love - Marital; Passion


OF MAN AND WIFE, by RICHARD EEDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: No love, to love of man and wife
Last Line: No thine, no mine, may other call, %now all is one, and one is all
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


OH STRANGE AND SAD, by JESSIE M. GILMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh strange and sad that two may live beside
Last Line: And finds the shadows that its longings wore.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


OLD HANDS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Months since we've made love
Last Line: Melting, your fingers blazing at the latch
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age


OLD SONG AND DANCE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, because you love me, hold
Last Line: The children laugh in the air
Subject(s): Love - Marital


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 A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is torn across
Last Line: And the doors burn in their brain
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


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 AN ANNIVERSARY, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty years and more go by
Last Line: And the evening has no end
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage


ON HIS GOLDEN-WEDDING DAY, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love burned once in your cheeks where now, as ashes
Last Line: When soul meets soul upon love's eminence.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


ON LEAVING HIS WIFE, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thick sea-pine
Last Line: Your falling for a while, %for I would see my love
Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


ON THE GIFT OF A SAPPHIRE TO MY WIFE ANN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blue stone seems a
Last Line: Most endlessly endure!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sapphires


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 A VIRGIN, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light
Last Line: That other sun, the jealous coursing of the unrivalled blood
Variant Title(s): The Marriage Of A Virgi
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Virginity


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


ON THE TWO DWARFS THAT WERE MARRIED AT COURT, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Design, or chance, makes others wive
Last Line: As love has me for only you
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


ORPHEUS, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus can never look back at the real woman trailing behind him out of hell
Last Line: Seeing his wife as an ordinary woman, she is lost. And he is lost
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


ORTHODOXIES 2, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is spreading the lilies of jealousy on the ground, a young man
Last Line: On a woman with a beaver's belly, another unexpected madness is capped
Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Murder


OUR THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY, by ERNA HENNESSY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think each moment is a little death
Last Line: And run together down the slippery hill
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital


OURS IS A LITTLE HOME NEWLY BEGUN, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And storm or calm, fill it, %lord, full of thee
Subject(s): Love - Marital


OVER THGE COFFIN, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They stand confronting, the coffin between
Last Line: Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea
Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


PAINTER'S WIFE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was tangled up in her own self-conceit, a woman
Last Line: And he thought so too %nobody else did
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


PARTING, by CHIANG YEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again, suppose the husband lives in tzu-yu
Last Line: Her shadow she grieves
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


PAVANE FOR THE NURSERY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now touch the air softly
Last Line: And I'll love you as long %as the furrow the plow, %as however is ever, %and ever is now
Subject(s): Love - Marital


PEACE: A WEDDING SONG, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's time to say words of good omen
Last Line: And the fiery sword has been put away
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedding Song


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 IN DOUBT, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgotten brooch and shrivelled scar
Last Line: Yet now she trembled at his touch
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


PRIVY-LOVE FOR MY LANDLADY, by GEORGE FAREWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here costive many minutes did I strain
Last Line: Dear, doting dick, for o! She saved my life.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


PROGRESS OF MARRIAGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aetatis suae fifty-two
Last Line: A rooted pox to last forever
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


PROPOSALS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sukey, you shall be my wife"
Last Line: "say yes, if you please"
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love


PSALM 1, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happy the man that doth not walk
Last Line: Shall by his hand be overthrown.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


PSALM 1, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blessed are the man and the woman
Last Line: Their leaves will not fall or wither. %everything they do will succeed
Subject(s): Love - Marital


PSALM 100, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sing to the lord, all creatures
Last Line: For his goodness is beyond comprehension, %and his deep love endures forever
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedding Song


PSALM 148, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Praise god in the highest heavens
Last Line: Who has made us in his own image, %the light that fills heaven on earth
Subject(s): Love - Marital


QUESTION OF MARRIAGE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I yield you my whole heart, countess, said he
Last Line: Than rust as the wife of a spouse like mine
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


RE-STATEMENT OF ROMANCE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night knows nothing of the chants of night
Last Line: In the pale light that each upon the other throws
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


RE-STATEMENT OF ROMANCE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night knows nothing of the chants of night
Last Line: Supremely true each to its separate self, %in the pale light that each upon the other throws
Subject(s): Love - Marital


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


REWAKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sooner or later %we must come to the end
Last Line: Your love the very sun %itself is revived
Subject(s): Love - Marital


RIDING BACK ON A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD TRACTOR AFTER PULLING OUT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silent philosophy
Last Line: Not tonight; we will ride this tractor %home
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships


ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee,
Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships


ROMAN EPITHALAMION, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dweller on helicon, son
Last Line: You two, and get to work on the singing, %on the labor of loving. %o hymen, hymanaee, hymenaee
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedding Song


ROMEO AND JULIET, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mothers; Supernatural


RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 57, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You know, my friends, how bravely in my house
Last Line: And took my daughter of the vine to spouse
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Time


SACRED MARRIAGE OF SHIVA AND PARVATI, SELS., by PARANCOTI MUNIVAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the marriage platform made of gold
Last Line: Are not those of this world and those of the world above thesame?
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kettle descants in a cosy drone
Last Line: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.
Subject(s): Desire; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But hear, if you stay, and the child be born
Last Line: Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.'
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Love - Marital; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 9. AT THE ALTAR-RAIL, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom
Last Line: "I had eaten the apple ere you were weaned.""'"
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SEA LAVENDER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lavender, sea lavender!
Last Line: That my hands still hold her hands.
Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium


SEA WIFE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There must be so many souls washing
Last Line: Mourning for the souls, the souls, that are lost there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Mourning; Widows And Widowers


SECOND HONEYMOON, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A perfect cone shell lay on live coral twenty yards from shore
Last Line: The way, come to think of it, my first wife and I %stripped each other of love, then followed our no
Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Honeymoons; Love - Marital


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


SHIAWASE (1), by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rising before five %a.M., my bride and I crept
Last Line: That charm the moon all night long
Subject(s): Hearts; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love - Marital; Wedding Song


SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved him most %when he came home from work
Last Line: The white fire of the torch, the whistle, %and the long drive home
Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women


SHUNGA, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the blizzard's heart
Last Line: On a freezing new year's eve
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital


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


SIX DREAM SONGS: 3: SLEEP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where will you and I sleep?
Last Line: &v I will sleep
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SKETCHES TOWARD THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The midday sun buckled the bridge boards
Last Line: Knowing where you are and how to get there
Subject(s): Drawing; Egypt; Love - Marital; Paintings And Painters


SOME WOMEN, by SIMONIDES OF AMORGOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the creation god made women's natures
Last Line: By god -- she is the best and wisest wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Semonides Of Amorgos
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SOMETIMES THIS HAPPENS, by LOUISE HAYNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: She liked tall things
Last Line: Of circular rotundity.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetest love, I do not go
Last Line: Alive, ne'er parted be.
Variant Title(s): To His Love
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go and catch a falling star
Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three.
Variant Title(s): To His Love
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go and catch a falling star
Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three.
Variant Title(s): To His Love
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG, by GEORGE LYTTELTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavy hours are almost past
Last Line: To die, and think you mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here all seeking over
Last Line: At last the great day has come!
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, my beloved, let us go up the shining mountain, and sit together
Last Line: We sit in beauty, very still, upon the shining mountain
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SONG (11), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon
Last Line: Aspiring love has hallowed passion's tide.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Moon; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG FOR THE GODDESS OF LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete, %aphrodite
Last Line: Into our cups, %gold, and raised for the drinking
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical


SONG OF SOLOMON: 5:1, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I came into my garden
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG OF SOLOMON: THE SONG OF SONGS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE                       
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SONG OF THE DYING OLD MAN TO HIS YOUNG WIFE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kate, there's a trembling at my heart, a coldness at my brow
Last Line: I die within thy arms, my kate, and feel no sting of death.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Age Differences; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONG TO MY WIFE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those eyes that were so bright, love
Last Line: Where hope admired before!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments
Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds"";
Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology


SONNET: 12, SELS., by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loving is a journey with water and with stars
Last Line: Until it is and no more than a flash in the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SONNET: 17, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
Last Line: So intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement


SONNET: 27, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought our love at full, but I did err
Last Line: To print on farthest stars her pitying kiss.
Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNET: 3, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
Last Line: Die single, and thine image dies with thee.
Variant Title(s): "look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest"";
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SONNET: 48, SELS., by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two happy lovers make one single bread
Last Line: And they leave one single sun blazing in their bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SONNET: 73, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Last Line: To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Variant Title(s): "that Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold"";where Late The Sweet Birds Sang;sonnet #73;
Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Conceit; Death; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Old Age; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNET: 8, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Last Line: Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.'
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SONNET: 9, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die
Last Line: That they who love are but one step from heaven.
Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNET: 9, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Last Line: That on himself such murderous shame commits.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SONNET: O HUSBAND!, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O husband! This word of care born
Last Line: I'm a woman, am empty, yet full of light for thee.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 14, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Last Line: Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
Variant Title(s): Love For Love's Sake;for Love's Sake Only
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 18, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never gave a lock of hair away
Last Line: The kiss my mother left here when she died.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say over again, and yet once over again
Last Line: To love me also in silence with thy soul.
Variant Title(s): Assurance
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 28, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My letters! All dead paper, mute and white!
Last Line: If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!
Variant Title(s): Love Letters
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 35, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
Last Line: And fold within the wet wings of thy dove.
Variant Title(s): Fullness Of Love
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 38, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
Last Line: I have been proud and said, 'my love, my own.'
Variant Title(s): Chrism And Crown Of Love;first, Second, Third;three Kisses
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 39, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace
Last Line: To pour out gratitude, as thou dost, good!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 43, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Last Line: I shall but love thee better after death.
Variant Title(s): Sonnets From The Portguese: 42;the Ways Of Love;perfect Love
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Last Line: And sees within my eyes the tears of two.
Variant Title(s): Far And Yet Near
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you tender ones, walk now and then
Last Line: Carry them now. But the winds - but the spaces
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SORT OF TIMID LIKE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once I loved a maiden
Last Line: Sort of timid like.
Subject(s): Family Life; Love - Marital; Relatives; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SOUTH GARDEN, by LI HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flower branches and grass stems blossom before
Last Line: For her wedding with the spring wind, no fragrance was employed
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 152, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He who would have a good wife
Last Line: When everyday clothes she wears
Subject(s): Love - Marital


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 55, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like two trees we are
Last Line: But the boughs are mated
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Togetherness


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BENJAMIN PANTIER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Together in this grave lie benjamin pantier, attorney at law
Last Line: Our story is lost in silence. Go by, mad world!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. BENJAMIN PANTIER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know that he told that I snared his soul
Last Line: Back of his office.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SPRING, by C. WENTWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Young morning tapped sharply on my window
Last Line: All day two dusty, bloated flies have been crawling over the sky-light.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Nature; Spring; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


STORY OF BAUCIS AND PHILEMON, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An oak tree stands
Last Line: Good people still, and cherishers are cherished
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


SUITOR (IDYLL 23), by THEOCRITUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a passionate fellow who loved an unkind
Last Line: One is destroyed. Let disdainers be loving, for love is
Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


SUMMIT OF DELIGHT, by JORGE GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Now I only can sing!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Youth


THAT GREEN NIGHT, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even now, she could give him
Last Line: If he had let go any sooner she would have flown beyond earth with those stars
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships


THE ABDUCTION, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some things I do not profess to understand
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE AEOLIAN HARP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My pensive sara! Thy soft cheek reclined
Last Line: Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honoured maid!
Variant Title(s): Lines Composed At Clevedon;the Eolian Harp;effusion: 35, Composed At Clevedo, Somersetshire
Subject(s): Harps; Love - Marital; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 9. PRELUDE: THE WIFE'S TRAGEDY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man must be pleased; but him to please
Last Line: As grass grows taller round a stone.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 12. HUSBAND AND WIFE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, while the shop-girl fitted on
Last Line: And ran into each other's arms.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 12. PRELUDE: THE MARRIED LOVER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, having won her, do I woo
Last Line: And more to-day than yesterday.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE ANNIVERSARY [ANNIVERSARIE], by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All kings, and all their favourites
Last Line: To write threescore, this is the second of our reign.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE BETROTHAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, come, my lad, or go, my lad
Last Line: There's few enough as is.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE CHOICE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jenny is a butterfly
Last Line: When jenny is my wife!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE CONTRACT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gave myself to him
Last Line: Insolvent, every noon.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE COQUETTE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She laughs, the dimples come and go
Last Line: She weds old moneybags at last!
Subject(s): Flirtation; Happiness; Laughter; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE CROSS OF SNOW, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long, sleepless watches of the night
Last Line: And seasons, changeless since the day she died.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE DANCE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would have each couple turn
Last Line: Love changes, and in change is true
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE DEVOTED, by ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stern faces were around them bent, and eyes of vengeful ire
Last Line: And left her all unharm'd amidst her loveliness and pride!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE DREAM RANGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, young, I slept in a cold bed
Last Line: To hell! With life on the dream range!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Money; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE FARMER'S WIFE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband is a good, hardworking man
Last Line: "and john's come in. ""yes, I'll have supper soon!"
Subject(s): Family Life; Freedom; Love - Marital; Marriage; Relatives; Liberty; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE FIRESIDE, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear chloe, while the busy crowd
Last Line: And smooth the bed of death.
Variant Title(s): A Paradise Below
Subject(s): Fire; Happiness; Home; Life; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE FOUNDLING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's the glimmer of dew on the bending grass
Last Line: But love has found him at morning's light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Comfort; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE FROG AND THE MOUSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A frog went walking one fine day
Last Line: "if you want to find out, go look for yourself / a-hmmm, a-hmmm"
Subject(s): Love - Marital;marriage; Wedded Love;marriage - Love;weddings;husbands;wives


THE GOOD-MORROW, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Last Line: Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; New Year; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE HEBREW'S FRIDAY NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'come, my beloved, to meet the bride; the face"
Last Line: The sweet humanities which make our higher life
Subject(s): Brides;jews;love - Marital;sabbath; Judaism;wedded Love;marriage - Love;sunday


THE HILL WIFE: LONELINESS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One ought not to have to care / so much as you and I
Last Line: And their built or driven nests.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Loneliness


THE HUELESS LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto that love must we through fire attain
Last Line: And one passed out, and one the bell-head hung.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE KNOWING, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE LADY OF ROSENECK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a merry song of the blustering days when troopers were rough and raw
Last Line: "a wife so brave, and a wife so kind, and a wife with such a back!"
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE MARRIAGE, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind comes from opposite poles
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE MARRIAGE, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem 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 MASTER SPEED, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No speed of wind or water rushing by
Last Line: Together wing to wing and oar to oar
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE MIST, by IDA SHERWIN OLIVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yonder from the mountain side
Last Line: If this were all—the mist and I.
Subject(s): Brides; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE MOTHER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the nurse gone now? And are we alone at last?
Last Line: The father (joyously): no, no; good-morning, mother.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea
Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon.
Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE PROGRESS OF MARRIAGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aetatis suae fifty-two
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE QUESTION ANSWER'D, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it men in women do require?
Last Line: The lineaments of gratified desire.
Variant Title(s): A Question Answered
Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love - Marital; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE REASON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Something has changed him; yesterday
Last Line: His wife is coming home to-day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE REWAKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sooner or later / we must come to the end
Last Line: Itself is revived
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by LI PO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
Last Line: As far as cho-fu-sa.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Variant Title(s): Cathay: The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Subject(s): Absence; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Men; Teenagers; Separation; Isolation; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 57, by OMAR KHAYYAM                        Poet's Biography
First Line: You know, my friends, how bravely in my house
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by JEAN ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And are ye sure the news is true?
Last Line: When our gudeman's awa'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Adam, Jean
Variant Title(s): The Mariner's Wife;there's Nae Luck About The House
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sailing & Sailors; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Seamen; Sails


THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved him most / when he came home from work
Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 58, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sir eliduc hath ta'en the maid aside
Last Line: Against his breast her burden'd plaint did pour—
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 7, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His lady leal still tenderer became
Last Line: In fierce revolt at his opprobrious ban.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 76, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sorely the knight chastised their cowardice
Last Line: And with the knowledge her white soul had fled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 83, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: With lilting heart she heralds his return
Last Line: Were recompense for many past alarms!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Homecoming; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 87, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So, ere the first pale flush of day appear'd
Last Line: Beauty than marble lovelier and more chill!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE SONG OF A TRAVELLER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Last Line: Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): Romance;my Valentine;a Fine Song For Singing;songs Of Travel: 11
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You shall hear how pau-puk-keewis
Last Line: "from the evening star descending."
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE TELEPHONE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was just as far as I could walk
Last Line: "well, so I came."
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Telephones; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE VACUUM, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house is so quiet now
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Vacuum Cleaners; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE VIVANDIERE ('70), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O yvonne, / how you dazzled in the dance!
Last Line: For yvonne the vivandière!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs


THE WAY, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love's manners in bed
Last Line: And love her as hard as you can
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE WEDDED LOVER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read in our old journals of the days
Last Line: These being so much fairer, spent with you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE WEDDING DAY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetheart, name the day for me
Last Line: Rosebuds wither, picked too soon.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WEDDING VOW, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not stand at the altar, I stood
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She rose to his requirement, dropped
Last Line: The fathoms they abide.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE WIFE, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could have stemmed misfortune's tide
Last Line: I could not live alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE WIFE OF LOKI, by CHARLOTTE ELLIOT (1830-1880)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cursed by the gods and crowned with
Last Line: Resumes her constant place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Florenz
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WIFE TO HER HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Linger not long. Home is not home wihtout thee
Last Line: "haste, as a skiff, through tempests wide and swelling, / flies to its haven of securest rest!"
Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love


THE WIFE'S TREASURE, by SABINE BARING-GOULD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At sidon lived a husband with his wife
Last Line: "now thou art mine, and I will treasure thee!"
Subject(s): Jews; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations


THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: MARRIAGE MORNING, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light, so low upon earth
Last Line: Flash for a million miles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east
Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus


THE WRAGGLE TAGGLE GIPSIES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were three gipsies a-come to my door
Last Line: "along with the wraggle taggle gipsies, o!"
Subject(s): Gypsies;love - Marital;marriage;wandering & Wanderers;; Gipsies;wedded Love;marriage - Love;weddings;husbands;wives


THERE HE GOES, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, little bride, do brush aside those
Last Line: If now and then he leaves you for his club!
Subject(s): Brides; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because they are two old birds
Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age


THIS MARRIAGE BE WINE WITH HAALVAH, HONEY DISSOLVING IN MILK, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: This marriage, this silence fully mixed with spirit
Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali
Subject(s): Love - Marital


TITHONUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall
Last Line: And thee returning on thy silver wheels.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Immortality; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO 'THE WIFE', by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You say I'm 'getting used' to you
Last Line: So used to you I couldn't live without you!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO - (4), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O dearer far than light and life are dear
Last Line: The faith heaven strengthens where 'he' moulds the creed.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO A FRIEND ON HIS NUPTIALS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When jove lay blest in his alcmaena's charms
Last Line: He strong as jove, she like alcmaena fair
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your voice at times a fist
Last Line: I sit at home and see it all / through you
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Love - Marital; Negroes; American Blacks; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your voice at times a fist
Last Line: I sit home and see it all %through you
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Love - Marital


TO A HUSBAND, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brighter than fireflies upon the uji river
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO A POET OF HIS MARRIAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever and ever, on and on
Last Line: That led to where she waited you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Future; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO A YOUNG COUPLE, BY HALF OF AN OLD(ISH) COUPLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You think that all the world is fair
Last Line: It's better all the time!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO EDITH SOUTHEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Edith! I brought thee late a humble gift
Last Line: Robert southey.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Maturity; Poetry & Poets; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO HIS WIFE, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be life what it has been, and let us hold
Last Line: Count not the years, but take of each its boon.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO HIS WIFE (1), by QIN JIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Liken man's life to morning dew
Last Line: Sorrow comes like tracing a ring - %the heart is no mat to be rolled away
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; Longing; Love - Marital


TO HIS WIFE ON THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, WITH A RING, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee, mary, with this ring I wed' / so, sixteen years ago, I said
Last Line: And teach me all things--but repentance.
Variant Title(s): The Second Marriage
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birthdays; Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO JANE (HIS WIFE, ON HER BIRTHDAY, THE SIXTH OF NOVEMBER), by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, dear heart, and a most kind good-morrow
Last Line: So may thy life be measured out by flowers!
Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY ANTENOR, MARCH 16, 1661/2, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear antenor, now give o'er
Last Line: Believe that providence will do so too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Grief; Innocence; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we
Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever.
Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness


TO MY MORE THAN MERITORIOUS WIFE, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am, by fate, slave to your will
Last Line: John.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY MY HUSBAND MENGDUAN, by WANG FENGXIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peace blossoms flutter
Last Line: At this moment I'm secretly overwhelmed by thoughts of love
Subject(s): Love - Marital


TO MY WIFE, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever loveliness is in this music
Last Line: All these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY WIFE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Braver than sea-going ships with the dawn in their
Last Line: I ride for your star!
Variant Title(s): Dedication To A First Book
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY WIFE, by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without thee, I am unblest
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY WIFE, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And does the heart grow old? You know
Last Line: And love like anger in the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


TO MY WIFE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curse of adam, the old curse of all
Last Line: As only should be shed for guilt and shame!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY WIFE ON HER BIRTHDAY; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What! --ty years? -- I never could have guessed it
Last Line: "have spent their life, and, ""dying, made no sign!"
Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY WIFE: WITH A COPY OF MY POEMS, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can write no stately proem
Last Line: You will understand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO SPEAK OF WOE THAT IS IN MARRIAGE', by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem 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 SPEAK OF WOE THAT IS IN MARRIAGE', by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open
Last Line: He stalls above me like an elephant
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: "to Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


TO THE BRIDGE OF LOVE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Which is always flowing, and doesn't end
Subject(s): Love - Marital


TO THE GOLDEN WIFE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With laughter always on the darkest day
Last Line: Thrice blest and all unworthy I!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO THE STORMY PETREL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever perilous and precious, like an ember from the fire
Last Line: In peace and tempest it has ever shone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Love - Marital; War; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Last Line: You may forever tarry.
Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TOGETHER, by HANNAH K. AKEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: He lays his paper by, refills his pipe
Last Line: And such true friends. Oh! These are happy days.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TOUCHING EACH OTHER'S SURFACES, by CAROL JANE BANGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Skin meeting skin, we want to think
Last Line: And learns to believe in itself just enough %to believe in some one else
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love - Marital


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


TOWARD A DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is to make a fill, not find a land
Last Line: Of marriage, which is the politics of love
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the chamber of birth
Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last.
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TOWERS OF BOLOGNA, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The two towers of bologna
Last Line: Like those immense trees that long for evening in the woods %and long for the immense and endless st
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage


TRAIN OUR LOVE THAT IT MAY GROW, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Will find us %lovers still
Subject(s): Love - Marital


TRILOGY, by TERRY KRUG    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is one thing in life that is priced
Last Line: When she hears both her children try to stifle their cries.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TWO DREAMERS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the few places in this meadow
Last Line: Will be come back
Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Love - Marital; Pregnancy


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 OF YOU, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't run anymore. Quiet. How softly it rains
Last Line: And the street of tall peeling porticos %which this love of yours suddenly transformed
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


TWO VOICES FROM HESTER STREET (1904), by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning / in the warm air
Last Line: Abraham
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Slavery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Serfs


TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 1, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two wedded hearts, if e'er were such
Last Line: Die into an intenser life/
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The builder left one narrow rent
Last Line: And union absolute of love.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TYLNEY HALL: TO MY WIFE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still glides the gentle streamlet on
Last Line: My tide of life is true to thee.
Variant Title(s): The Streamlet
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


UPON JOLLY AND JILLY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jolly and jilly bite and scratch all day
Last Line: They cling and close, some minutes of the night
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


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


VACUUM, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house is so quiet now
Last Line: And still the hungry, angry heart %hangs on and howls, biting at air
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Vacuum Cleaners


VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF AN ARTIST, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How like soft skies that bend at even
Last Line: His italy in thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping
Last Line: Only. Would like to be that unnoticed %& thay necessary
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep


VICISSITUDES OF LOVE, by DAN QUISENBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glancing at her husband %of twenty-nine years
Last Line: And she thinks %iloveyousomuch
Subject(s): Love - Marital


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


VOICES: THE SONG OF THE WIDOW, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beginning life was good to me
Last Line: And left me standing open
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


WARNING TO A WIFE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Either get out of the house or conform to my tastes
Last Line: By all means play lucretia by day. But I need a lais %at night
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


WAY, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My love's manners in bed
Last Line: Let you find a good wife too, %and love her as hard as you can
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Love - Marital


WAY DOWN SOUTH ON THE OLD S'WANNEE, by BENJAMIN D. DAVIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Way down on the s'wannee river ...'
Last Line: Way down south on the old s'wannee.
Subject(s): Florida; Love - Marital; Palm Trees; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


WAY THINGS ARE, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women conceive more readily, if taken
Last Line: In time wears through the very hardest stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


WE LIVE A TIME SECURE, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Laughing, %we endure
Subject(s): Love - Marital


WEDDED (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The knotted moment that untwists
Last Line: Kindness like death's have caught.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


WEDDED HANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The year, sweet wife, is on the wane
Last Line: Good-night, old year, good-night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


WEDDED LOVE, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, rouse thee, dearest! - 'tis not well
Last Line: In fond, undying, wedded love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


WEDDING, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not even when I walked past the crowd
Last Line: Grabbing us on its long run
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song


WEDDING MORN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning breaks like a pomegranate
Last Line: For joy or for misery
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


WEDDING OUT WEST, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air
Last Line: Limbs and reach'd to her feet
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


WEDDING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Him: %'not a spirit, not a bird'
Last Line: That was my heart you heard %when you came to the willows
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedding Song


WEDDING SONG: LULLABY FOR SLEEPY LOVERS, by THEOCRITUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail bride and groom, children both of jove
Last Line: Salutes the spring, so you, with wond'ring eyes, %should light the world and brighten all the skies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedding Song


WEDDING TOAST, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast
Last Line: And may that water smack of cana's wine
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion


WEDDING VOW, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not stand at the altar, I stood
Last Line: I do. I take as he takes - we have been %practicing this. Do you bear this pleasure? I do
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


WEDDING, SELS., by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK                        Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): A Fine Song For Singing; Romanc
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


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


WEDDING-WIND, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blew all my wedding-day
Last Line: These new delighted lakes, conclude %our kneeling as cattle by all-generous waters?
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage


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


WHAT LOVE DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fused together, after years %and years of it, mostly the two legs
Last Line: Rough arms and straining legs of the other
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Quarrels; Tears


WHEELCHAIR REPAIRMAN'S BRIDE IMAGINES HER FIRST NIGHT, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wonders if she'll straddle him
Last Line: The upper and lower worlds; their skin igniting
Subject(s): Brides; Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Travel


WHEN I HEARD AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd
Last Line: And his arm lay lightly around my breast--and that night I was happy.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


WHEN IN THE MORNING I MAKE OUR BED, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That's why it happened %...And this way
Subject(s): Love - Marital


WHEN MY FALL COMES I WONDER, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And find them nicer yet?
Subject(s): Love - Marital


WHILE THE LEAVES OF THE BAMBOO RUSTLE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: As the body of my wife
Subject(s): Love - Marital


WHITENESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What thing than the lily unstained is more white?
Last Line: Till it rests on your shoulders, a marvel to see!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Snow; Winter


WHOLE LOVE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every choice is always the wrong choice
Last Line: Neither was born by hazard: each foreknew %the extreme possession we are grown into
Subject(s): Love - Marital


WHY ARGUE AND FIGHT, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And take whatever god sends
Subject(s): Love - Marital


WHY I WORK, by JEFF WALT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every day I tie on an apron, wrap the long
Last Line: From the heat of my t-shirt and remind me
Subject(s): Hearts; Kindness; Love - Marital


WIDOWER, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a season there must be pain
Last Line: Shall draw me safe to the land
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning


WIFE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, my old darling, my dear one, my friend
Last Line: I am so sorry we've come to this end
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Problems


WIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A song I sing of sorrow unceasing
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Marital; Marriage


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 THIS RING..., by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Like other things, %are lovelier when scarred?
Subject(s): Love - Marital


WOMAN BATHING, REMBRANDT, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Freed from shelling peas and shucking oysters
Last Line: Is all I've wanted, all I'll ever need
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Women


WORD AGAINST WIVES, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrewdnes so stirres, pride so puffes up their hart
Last Line: Wherein the birde doth never sing but cry
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage


WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         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


WORLD STANDS SOLEMNER TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or posture to redeem?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 280; Poem: 49
Subject(s): Gratitude; Love - Marital; Marriage


WREATH FOR A BRIDAL, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What though green leaves only witness
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


WREATH FOR A BRIDAL, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What though green leaves only witness
Last Line: Let flesh be knit, and each step hence go famous
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Marital


YOSEMITE: 40TH ANNIVERSARY CLIMB, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Marriage too is a climb that %earlier couples teach us to go up
Last Line: Freudian' & champagne crusted in foil
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage


YOU HELD MY HAND, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And tell me %to be still
Subject(s): Love - Marital


YOU LOOK AT ME AND SEE MY FLAWS, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: What lies between %-and love the more!
Subject(s): Love - Marital


YOU THAT LOVE LOVERS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The pur joy of the sun, %our music master
Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali
Subject(s): Love - Marital


YOUR EYES LOOK DOWN AT ME SO THOUGHTFULLY, by RUTH BELL GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Will you love me %the less?
Subject(s): Love - Marital