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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - MARITAL Matches Found: 546 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 lovingthen 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 allthe 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 |
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