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Subject: MARRIAGE Matches Found: 2111 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "AN IMITATION OF MARTIAL, BOOK 11 EP. 104", by CAPTAIN" "H.[PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "sweet spouse, you must presently troop and be gone" Last Line: "move, wriggle, heave, pant, clip round like a ring: / in short, be as lewd as a strumpet" Alternate Author Name(s): "h., Captain; Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives 1944, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Get out, sheila,' he said, 'quit the place now Last Line: You'll rip marriages asunder with hair like that Subject(s): Beauty; Marriage 27-OCT, by DORIS RADIN Poem Source First Line: At the alter Last Line: He's holding out his opened hand Subject(s): Marriage 4 A.M., by JOHN SAMUEL TIEMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a leaf which wishes to drop Last Line: Her skin amid all the dark Subject(s): Death; Li Po (701-762); Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Silence 50-STRING LUTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lifetimes / continue Last Line: Forty-eight times they spin, right, then left Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 50-STRING LUTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lifetimes %continue Last Line: Just like nimble killers %on hand Subject(s): Marriage 559, by GORDON MASSMAN Poem Source First Line: My wife and I debated this: that sex is the dominant preoccupation Last Line: Her dominant so that her breasts swing erotically through the air Subject(s): Marriage; Sex A 'MERCENARY' MARRIAGE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She moves as light across the grass Last Line: My dearest maid of moreton hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a princely chamber sat Last Line: For him is set for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF AN ARTIST'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet wife, this heavy-hearted age Last Line: "and in her peace forever dwell." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hunger; Marriage; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF EUTHANASIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In magic books she read at night Last Line: Of death is love and life.' Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Magic; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF HELL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A letter from my love today! Last Line: Hell raised a hoarse half-human cheer. Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve Subject(s): Betrayal; Deception; Heaven; Hell; Love; Marriage; Suicide; Paradise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee, dick, where I have been Last Line: With bridget and with nell. Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Cities; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song; Urban Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A BEARD FOR A BLUE PANTRY, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bluebeard displayed his wives Subject(s): Marriage; Cancer (disease); Beards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness Last Line: Quite so emphatically! Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BENEDICT'S APPEAL TO A BACHELOR, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear charles, be persuaded to wed Last Line: T is singular you should be single! Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People A 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 Full 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 BLESSING FOR A WEDDING, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today when persimmons ripen Last Line: Today when persimmons ripen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A 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 BRIDAL MEASURE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, essay a sprightly measure Last Line: Bridal dance for you and me. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BRIDE, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw your portrait yesterday Last Line: The loneliest of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BRIDE SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the vales to my love Last Line: O my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Wedding Song; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A BUSH CHRISTENING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the outer barcoo where the churches are few Last Line: How he came to be christened maginnis! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology A CATCH; EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now I'm married, the priest I'll not curse" Last Line: I would be advised ere I married again Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives A 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 CITY ECLOGUE, by W." "J. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "'twas sunday morning, quite serene the air" Last Line: "let us poor cits do whatsoever we may, / our headstrong spouses still will have their way!" Alternate Author Name(s): "j., W.; Subject(s): Cities;marriage;old Age; Urban Life;weddings;husbands;wives A CONJUGAL CONUNDRUM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "which is of greater value, prythee say" Last Line: The bridegroom's often regularly sold Subject(s): Brides;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives A CONNUBIAL ECLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much lately have I thought, my darling wife Last Line: I've not the proper spirit of a wife! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear mother, fairest queen and best Last Line: And in a while, you'll tell another tale. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A FAREWELL TO WIVES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Once in our lives Last Line: And so we shall be rid of them all Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives A FISHER'S-WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soonest mended, nothing said Last Line: And he and I so far apart! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A FUNERAL POEM UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER ENDEARED AND TENDER WIFE, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gracious lord, I licence of thee crave Last Line: Much in her thoughts, and yet she fear'd not death. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Marriage; Mourning; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The; Burials; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A GAME OF FIVES, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five little girls, of five, four, three, two, one Last Line: "the answer to that ancient problem ""how the money goes!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Girls; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GOLDEN WEDDING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your golden wedding! - fifty Last Line: But take it -- I have more of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GOLDEN WEDDING: C.B.-E.A.B., 1825-1875, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speech is silver - silence gold' Last Line: "earth how fair and heaven how bright!" Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GOOD HUSBAND, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A master of a house (as I have read) Last Line: He sets his foot, he leaves rich compost there. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GRAIN OF SALT, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the wimming doubly blest Last Line: And sail and sail -- and let 'er knit. Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails A GRAM. HOW MUCH?, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: 4 o’clock Subject(s): Marriage; Freedom A HOUSEHOLD HINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she practices, my jealous wife" Last Line: Done up in naphtha-balls Subject(s): Marriage;smells; Weddings;husbands;wives;odors;aromas;fragrances A KISS TO THE BRIDE; MARRIAGE OF NELLY GRANT, MAY 21, 1874, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred, blithesome, undenied Last Line: Unto a nation's loving kiss. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LEAP-YEAR EPISODE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I forget that winter night Last Line: The nellie who came to woo. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LETTER SENT FROM OCTAVIA TO HER HUSBAND MARCUS ANTONIUS INTO EGYPT, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, yet dear though most disloyal lord Last Line: To thee the heart that's thine, and so I end. Subject(s): Egypt; Letters; Love; Marriage; Roman Empire; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LETTER TO 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 LONDON LETTER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your letter arrived with its letters Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LOYAL WOMAN'S NO, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! Is my answer from this cold Last Line: Take my life's silence for your answer: no! Subject(s): Evil; Freedom; Loyalty; Marriage; Women's Rights; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A MARRIAGE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother knew why her treatment wasn't working, Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives A MARRIAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met / under a shower Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MARRIAGE BETWIXT SCRAPE ... AND BLOBBERLIPS ..., SELS, by ALEXANDER PENNECUIK Poem Text First Line: Below fair peebles, on the river's side Last Line: There they lie.' Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Brides; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MARRIAGE POEM, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning: the caged baby Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives A MARRIAGE RING, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ring, so worn as you behold Last Line: Worn with life's care, love yet was love. Variant Title(s): His Mother's Wedding-ring;his Late Wife's Wedding Ring Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MARRIAGE-TABLE; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a marriage-table where one sate Last Line: And change life's bitterest waters into wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MARRIED WOMAN, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall marry, if I do not find Last Line: Unpunish'd: his consent made hers a sin. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bias; Intolerance A MORNING AFTER MOURNING, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me no longer presse your gentle eies Last Line: Saints triumph, princes wed; and court and country feaste's. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MOUNTAIN GRAVE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why fear to die Last Line: Of nature's child the common fate. Subject(s): Graves; Marriage; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A MYSTERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus a young wife, alighting from the train Last Line: In mute amazement at each other stare. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Mystery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW LITANY, OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO A WEDDING, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure Last Line: Libera nos. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW MOTHER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my lady when she died Last Line: -- well, I loved my own dear lady best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Love; Marriage; Mothers; Tears; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NUPTIALL VERSE TO MISTRESSE ELIZABETH LEE, NOW LADY TRACIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring with the larke, most comely bride, and meet Last Line: Drown'd in the bloud of rubies there, not die. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PASTORAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Flower of the medlar Last Line: To wake our wedding-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Marriage; Nymphs; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A 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 PLEA FOR TRIGAMY, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been trying to fashion a wifely ideal Last Line: Than three. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PROSPECTIVE GLIMPSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Janey pettibone's the best Last Line: Little janey pettibone! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes A 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 REGULAR GIRL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, what do you mean by a regular girl? Last Line: And a regular mother as well. Subject(s): Admiration; Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy A RONDELAY, by PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is for woman made Last Line: And woman made for man. Alternate Author Name(s): Motteux, Pierre Antoine Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A ROSE IN OCTOBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed, all alone, where the Last Line: She'd bloom for me aye, as -- my wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Marriage; October; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SCANDAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the inlet's ebb and rise Last Line: "I firmly believe that the tale was true!)" Subject(s): Defamation; Marriage; New York City - Dutch Period; Slander; Libel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SHORT SONG OF CONGRATULATION, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long-expected one and twenty Last Line: You can hang or drown at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): One And Twenty Subject(s): Birthdays; Inheritance & Succession; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Wealth; Youth; Heirs; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes A SILVER WEDDING: B.F.B.-E.G.B., 1855-1880, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in other days and climes Last Line: There unending love and light! Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SISTER OF SORROW: 3. WEDDING-EVE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gown and veil and bride-bed linen Last Line: "your tomb or his, 'tis one to me." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SKETCH FROM LIFE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its eyes are gray Last Line: To life! Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SPLENDID FELLOW, by H. C. DODGE Poem Text First Line: Delmonico's is where he dines Last Line: "I'll turn the dress I made last year." Subject(s): Marriage; Money; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A 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 STORY AS WET AS TEARS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the princess who kissed the frog Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 5, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when two days were over, japhet said Last Line: His father answering, 'son, thy words are good.' Subject(s): God; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 8, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then one ran, crying, while niloiya wrought Last Line: He and his father, to the marriage feast. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A STRUGGLE FOR A HUSBAND, FR. BALLADYNA, by JULJUSZ SLOWACKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How full of berries - and what rosy red! Last Line: By lightning and perishes.] Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You keep eating and raising a family Last Line: Of my superiority Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO TWO OF HER SISTER MISTERIS A.B., by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I to my brethern wrote, and to my sisters two Last Line: Your loving sister. Is. W. Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TENTH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPH, 1952, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Look at their faces. You know it all. Subject(s): Marriage; Anniversaries; Life Choices; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TIME OF BEES, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day my husband pounds on the upstairs porch Subject(s): Bees; Marriage; Beekeeping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A TRIBUTE TO THE BRIDE AND GROOM, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, we are gathered together Last Line: In the pure, sweet, abode of the bride and the groom. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TRILOGY: FLAME, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: Your negligee. The curtained room Last Line: But a bedroom of satiety. Subject(s): Brides; Desire; Kisses; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A WAR-LULLABY; AUGUST, 1916, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire dwindles and the wind moans Last Line: Baby soon will be asleep. ... Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fear; Marriage; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was in terrible pain the whole day Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING AT CANA, LEBANON, 2007, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said, 'it is terrible what happens.' Subject(s): Marriage; War; Lebanon; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING 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 ON EARTH, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the feet that root deep to walk the ground Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING SONG, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said: 'my heart, now let us sing a song' Last Line: "and with a ""peace be with you!"" go my way." Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame. Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs A WEDDING TOAST, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology A WEDDING-DAY GALLOP (EARLY CALIFORNIA), by IRENE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Gallop with me, love, away and away Last Line: Together, together, and always to be. Subject(s): California; Home; Horseback Riding; Love; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips A WIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stretch out both my hands to you Last Line: For all their wistful prayer to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Sexism; Slavery; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs A WIFE, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord erskine, at women presuming to rail Last Line: That's the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WIFE AND ANOTHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War ends, and he's returning Last Line: I held I had not stirred god wrothfully. Subject(s): Homecoming; Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WIFE'S LETTER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My own Last Line: But only that this comes from me. Subject(s): Letters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WILD FLOWER, by GUSTAVE LEMOINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gleaner brown, a rustic flower Last Line: And mingle weeping with the strain. Subject(s): Marriage; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN 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 A WOMAN FOR THE ADVENTURE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman for the adventure Last Line: Such the woman I want for the adventure! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN'S ANSWER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love thee?' thou canst not ask of me Last Line: "I'll ""love, and honor, and obey." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN'S COMPLAINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know that deep within your heart of hearts Last Line: "go praying with white lips from day to day / for love's sweettokens, and receive them not" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives ABATE THE CLAUSE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promiscuity is not the same game plan resolving differences of desire Last Line: In this scenario spare him would you? Never Subject(s): Marriage ABDUCTOR, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I cannot correct my name. Because the boat Subject(s): Doubt; Love; Marriage; Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ABOUT HUSBANDS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Johnson was right. I don't agree at all Last Line: But apt to take his temper from his dinner. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ABOUT MARRIAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't lock me in wedlock, I want Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ACT OF VIOLENCE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him on the sofa. I loved him on the floor. I loved him from Last Line: Ringed in a thousand golden circles. Look at it now. Here, this finger still exists Subject(s): Marriage ACTING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being unwise enough the have married her Last Line: It to take the applause. Look, I am clapping too Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage ACTS OF PRESERVATION; FOR THEA KATI, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Every story she tells Last Line: They are all the same size Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marriage; Old Age AD ASTRA: 107, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Shall woman's sweet devotion also pass Last Line: And woman's virtue by each wind bespoken? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADDRESS TO COL. D. C. R. CARRICK-BUCHANAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Noble mind, that formed the liberal plan Last Line: Heaven's richest, choicest blessings ever share! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Generosity; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Parks; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADDRESS TO HER HUSBAND, by MEHETABEL (WESLEY) WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: The ardent lover cannot find Last Line: To laugh when hetty is no more. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full 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 ADULTERY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adultery %is old-fashioned Last Line: & me the red light %go go Subject(s): Marriage ADVICE TO A FRIEND ON MARRIAGE, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: Ope! Who? A friend! What wouldst obtain Last Line: You're crazy--batter out your brain. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY LATELY MARRIED, by ESTHER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Dear peggy, since the single state Last Line: And blushing throw the pen aside. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylvia; Clark, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE, by MARY BARBER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you gain her affection, take care to preserve it Subject(s): Marriage; Sons; Advice; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO MY YOUNG WIFE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have shattered your hands Last Line: It often clatters to the floor. Subject(s): Advice; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO THE LADIES OF LONDON IN THE CHOICE OF HUSBANDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ladies of london, both wealthy and fair" Last Line: "if this don't please, old nick is in you" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives AELLA: MINSTREL'S MARRIAGE-SONG, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The budding floweret blushes at the light Last Line: Winter and dusky hills will have a charm for thee. Variant Title(s): The Want Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I have found the secret way Last Line: Is a living music in us yet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER AN ABSENCE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After an absence that was no one's fault Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, mabel, 'tis over and ended Last Line: I think it will happen in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes AFTER THE GUEST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guest departs Subject(s): Guests; Marriage; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE GUEST; FOR MY BROTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guest departs Last Line: I pray we'll grow old. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Guests; Marriage; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE WEDDING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought we never should be rid of them! Last Line: To find our own past in their future there! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Daughters; Love - Marital; Marriage; Parents; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood AGAINST MARRIAGE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of mere love and arrant devotion Last Line: But the hell-fire of marriage none can endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AGAINST MARRIAGE TO HIS MISTRESS, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, all the world must sure agree Last Line: When once that love is past? Variant Title(s): To His Mistress Against Marriage Subject(s): Marriage; Mnemonics; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AKIN TO MARRIAGE, by LAUREL SMITH Poem Source First Line: One of you balances the checkbook Last Line: The other lights a match Subject(s): Marriage; Togetherness ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ALIEN KINSHIP SAYS I WAS THE TROBRIAND ISLANDER, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borrowed in blue. Rule & deal. What kinship system operative here if Last Line: Take that smirk off the face-gone-bush as your case may be Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALIEN KINSHIP SAYS I WAS THE TROBRIAND ISLANDER, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borrowed in blue. Rule & deal. What kinship system operative here if Last Line: Butch & take that smirk off the face-gone-bush as your case may be Subject(s): Marriage ALIEN WOMEN; SONGKHLA, THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-blind in the pharmacy's dim light Last Line: Back into the sun's fistful of blades. Subject(s): Intermarriage; Marriage; Shopping; Thailand; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A friend of mine was married to a scold Last Line: My scolding wife has gone among the rest Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives ALLEGORICAL DREAM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night's oral %death rattle Last Line: Language's allegorical dream Subject(s): Marriage ALMORAN TO ELIZA; WITH A HEART OF ICE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poets, when they paint a pair Last Line: To shape the expressive ice. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALONE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He grows used to the sound of the floor Last Line: That he didn't do. He would like to meet them. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Solitude; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness ALONE IN HER SPRINT OF HIM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She alone in her sprint of him alone in her welcomed Last Line: It is liquid: it is silver. It is gold. It is holy Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ALONE IN HER SPRINT OF HIM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She alone in her sprint of him alone in her welcomed & wedded car Last Line: Is a clear thread. It is liquid. It is silver. It is gold. It is holy Subject(s): Marriage ALZHEIMER'S (2), by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her husband is out in the hallway calling for help Last Line: He's packed his bags. And now no one lives there Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Marriage; Memory AMBITION, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy says his father wants to be a smurf Last Line: Now that the father wants his identity based on %something the son understands Subject(s): Ambition; Fathers; Marriage; Mothers; Secrets AMBOYNA: EPITHALAMIUM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is come, I see it rise Last Line: And now despairing shuts her eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Marriage; Virginity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals AMELIA, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had lived centuries apart. The imperial Last Line: Of sky and scudding clouds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMENDS FOR LADIES, by NATHANIEL FIELD Poem Text First Line: A wife the happiest state? Last Line: She leads feesimple towards bold. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Nat Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMOR SEMPITERNUS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When first I found thee, ruth, I thought: 'how rare!' Last Line: Remembering a chaos of caresses. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Luck; Marriage; Passion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMORETTI: 63, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After long storms' and tempests' sad assay Last Line: All sorrowes short that gaine eternall blisse Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Marriage AMORETTI: 65, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain Last Line: And spotlesse pleasure builds her sacred bowre. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN APRIL EPITHALAMIUM; FOR JOHN AND ANNE HUGHES, by ANNE STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I meant to write a poem upon your wedding Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN AUTUMN WEDDING-SONG, by ALGERNON TASSIN Poem Text First Line: Southward the swallow flies, south to the sunlands Last Line: And it's sing for the gold of her wedding-morn! Subject(s): Harvest; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EASTERN QUESTION, by H. M. PAULL Poem Text First Line: My william was a soldier, and he says to me, says he Last Line: Whilst the man that I was faithful to has been and gone and died! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EASY REMEMDY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An honest tailor, whose baptismal Last Line: "why don't you warm it?" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Water; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ECLOGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas e'ening whan the spreckled gowdspink sang Last Line: And take your supper kail or sowens wi me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Conversation; Halloween; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ELEGY ON A MAIDEN NAME, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, dear name which birth and nature gave Last Line: Each find in each a just, unshaken friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Names; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPISTLE TO MY FRIEND J.B., by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, jack, how now? I hear strange stories Last Line: Was sure to split, and sink, and damn. Subject(s): Curses; Love; Marriage; Temptation; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPITALAMIE TO SIR THOMAS SOUTHWELL AND HIS LADIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, now's the time; so oft by truth Last Line: Two, like two ripe shocks of corn. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To these, whom death again did wed Last Line: Whose day shall never die in night. Variant Title(s): Epitaph Upon A Young Married Couple Dead And Buryed Together Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN 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 AN EPITHALAMIUM, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Lo! Hymen passes through th' admiring crowds Last Line: And make one poor hermaphrodite at most Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): Hermaphrodites;marriage;mythology - Classical; Weddings;husbands;wives AN IDYLL OF PIPECLAY PONDS, by TOM FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Talk of the beauties of wedded life Last Line: That had its finale at skillicorn's dance. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN IMPROMPUT FAIRY-TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst upon a time wunst Last Line: "guess I'll marry you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fairy Tales; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANACLASTIC, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rays %of %broken Last Line: Where the taliban rule Subject(s): Marriage AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: Not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Marriage; Sea; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: And slides off toward the falt gray horizon, %not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Sea; Women ANDROMACHE'S WEDDING, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hector and his men bring the girl, her eyes gleaming Last Line: Singing for hector and for andromache divine. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANGEL ON THE LAKE SHORE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Frightened laughter on the faces of the caryatids. A captain Last Line: Destroying the seed that might shoot up from a common pain Subject(s): Marriage; Social Protest; Yugoslavia ANGELUS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, okay!, speak goodness of marriage Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANGRY ADMONITION, by DOROTHY JANE DEUELL Poem Text First Line: Husband! I am just a woman! Last Line: "you're sure you watched the recipe?" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANIMAL'D WITH JOB TO DO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One could live outside two married bodies & be or not be a financial Last Line: Will not harm you. No spiders will harm you I will not let the spiders harm you Subject(s): Marriage ANNIE BISSELL, WEDDING PICTURE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: I am a woman seen from a distance Last Line: Of no return Subject(s): Marriage; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Women ANNIVERSARIES, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: From now to then my way I make Last Line: And aids our feet when crossing. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANNIVERSARY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nineteen years now %under the same roof Last Line: The one child %with his huge hunger Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage 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 ANOTHER STORY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always thought you favored the bride Last Line: For as long as we stay here Subject(s): Mirrors; Marriage; Pregnancy ANY LOVER TO HIS LASS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most people live a humdrum life Last Line: For we won't ever be like that! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANY ONE WILL DO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a maiden once, of certain age" Last Line: "why, any one, good lord, will do" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives ANY WIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows but you and I, my dear Last Line: Love by its pangs, love that endures for love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; God; Grief; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANY WIFE TO ANY HUSBAND, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Last Line: And I wake saved. -- and yet it will not be! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations APRIL EPITHALAMIUM; FOR JOHN AND ANNE HUGHES, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I meant to write a poem upon your wedding Last Line: Off to your island now! Leave me my cleaning Subject(s): Marriage ARGUING BARTUSIAK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea is, the marriage still exists Subject(s): Marriage; Separation; Fidelity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Faithfulness; Constancy ARIES RISING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of hand Last Line: All the way down Subject(s): Marriage ARLETTE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Arlette believes Last Line: And with a single swat, %send him flying Subject(s): Marriage; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ARRIVAL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across a thousand miles of sea Last Line: To thee, dear haven of my heart, and I no more will roam. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 ARTHUR'S WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm getting better, miriam, though it tires me yet to speak Last Line: A trouble to myself, and, worse, a trouble now to you. Subject(s): Marriage; Human Behavior 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 ASIDE TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you do when you've wedded a girl all legal and lawful Last Line: They are thereby insultingly impugning their tasteful husband's impeccable taste Subject(s): Marriage ASLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waxen taper faintly gleamed Last Line: His quiet vigil kept. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Marriage; Sleep; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASOLANDO: MUCKLE-MOUTH MEG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frowned the laird on the lord: 'so, red-handed I catch thee?' Last Line: "to muckle-mouth meg in good earnest!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Marriage; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASOLANDO: WHICH?, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, the three court-ladies began Last Line: "seems terribly like what perhaps gains god's preference." Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASTROLOGY A MIDDLE NAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red ray death %whips perceval must shun Last Line: Ad rudimentary subatomic infinitum Subject(s): Marriage AT A BRIDAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you paced forth, to await maternity Last Line: If the race all such sovereign types unknows. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A COUNTRY WEDDING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring roses, youths, red roses, with full hands Last Line: Bring lilies, maidens, snow-white, delicate. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A HASTY WEDDING; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hours be years the twain are blest Last Line: For now they solace swift desire. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A WEDDING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You drive up to the country club Last Line: To the soprano of the crystal Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song AT BURPHAM, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: A when a maid awakes at matin toll Last Line: For news of absent love's imperial wing. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT EASE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When she died he married her sister Last Line: And a ghost Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Ghosts; Marriage; Supernatural AT LEEDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies my wife Last Line: Hallelujee! Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives AT THE DINNER TABLE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat at dinner in my prime Last Line: In jest there fifty years before. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips AT THE END-OF-SCHOOL PARTY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have our old cat? She is a very beautiful cat. She is Last Line: To me, she doesn't know me any more. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT THE 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 SAVORY CHAPEL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to the wedding, formal with heirloom lace Last Line: Resolute and unchangeably your own Subject(s): Marriage AT THE WEDDING MARCH, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God with honour hang your head Last Line: Deals triumph and immortal years. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 19, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, resembling beauty's trefoil Last Line: With such tenderness, herodias? Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ATTENTION OF HYMEN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atheist bride is dressed in blue Subject(s): Marriage; Jews; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Judaism AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUGURIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is erroneous Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AUGURIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is erroneous Last Line: In the genetic streams of children, remember that, in their genes Subject(s): Marriage AULD ROBIN THE LAIRD, by ALEXANDER MACLAGGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld robin, the laird, thocht o' changin' his life Last Line: "very weel, sir,"" quo' tibby, ""sae let it be!" Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of writing many books there is no end Last Line: Deliver us from evil, let us pray. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 2, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Times followed one another. Came a morn Last Line: Except through swirl of spray and all that roar. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day thou girdest up thy loins thyself Last Line: When they two had their meeting after death. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 4, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met still sooner. 'twas a year from thence Last Line: If that's your way, poor insect.' that's your way! Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 5, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aurora leigh, be humble. Shall I hope Last Line: And would not interrupt your life with ours. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The english have a scornful insular way Last Line: Which angels were too weak to roll away. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 7, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman's motive? Shall we daub ourselves Last Line: Dissolving slowly, slowly, until lost. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 8, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One eve it happened, when I sat alone Last Line: Much rather than I read it. Thus it ran. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 9, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even thus. I pause to write it out at length Last Line: The rest in order: -- last, an amethyst.' Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AWAKE AT NIGHT, RUINED BY THE MOCKING, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: A cockroach crawled across my chest last night Last Line: And the large basin hummed like a bell Subject(s): Absence; Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Marriage BAD COOKING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it roughens true love's course, and Last Line: Bills? Bad cooking. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements BAD MARRIAGE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Before each anniversary Last Line: Quarrels and poems come %and go like electricity - %unnecssary, unwelcome %expensive, wasteful and b Subject(s): Marriage BALLAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the river so lately pass'd o'er Last Line: In a single grave repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802); Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLAD OF A BRIDAL, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fill me flagons full and fair Last Line: "not half so dear as I!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Marriage; Socialism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLAD OF MY BEAUTIFUL LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My friend, my friend Last Line: The one I lost today.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Pain; Romance BALLAD OF RELIGION AND MARRIAGE, by AMY LEVY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swept into limbo is the host Last Line: Marriage has gone the way of god Variant Title(s): At A Dinner Part Subject(s): Marriage BALLAD OF THE BELLS, SELECTION, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ah! What joy, the bagpipe and the flute touch our hearts Last Line: Then in quaint pattern guarded them from sight. Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLAD OF THE MONKLAND COTTAR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's no a tale o' luve I sing Last Line: Was never ance forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Fathers; Livingstone, David (1813-1873); Marriage; Prisons & Prisoners; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts BALLAD WRITTEN FOR A BRIDEGROOM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At daybreak, when the falcon claps his wings Last Line: This is the end for which we twain are met. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLADE OF PENTECOST, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: On high pentecost I found Last Line: With a rose on either syde. Subject(s): Holidays; Hope; Love; Marriage; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALTA; GYPSY-SONG FO TRANSLYVANIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave balta clasped me to his breast Last Line: And lo! 'twas balta brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Gypsies; Love; Marriage; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BARBED-WIRE WINTER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: --boy! Last Line: Knows why. %and then the long life began Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Clergy; Love; Marriage BARLEY BROTH, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If tempers were put up to seale Last Line: A wretched or a happy weyfe! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full 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 BARRIERS, by ELLINOR L. NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: O, I would never, never dare Last Line: Out from her heart, leaving it bare. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Relationships; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BASHFUL GLEESON, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: From her home beyond the river in the parting of the hills Last Line: Anyhow, they're three years married, and he isn't bashful now. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Bashfulness; Fire; Heroism; Love; Marriage; Shyness; Heroes; Heroines; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BEATING, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My father knows only that Last Line: And in a great solitude Subject(s): Children; Domestic Relations; Marriage; Parents; Violence BECAUSE, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet nea! For your lovely sake Last Line: And a chaise and four to dover. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BED, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clothes of snow and satin and pure blood Last Line: And let your gown be fresh as april grass, %and let your prothalamium be sweet Subject(s): Marriage BEFORE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The tourist photographs the cathedral Last Line: Before we see each other? Subject(s): Churches; Marriage 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 BEHIND TIME, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More coal, bill,' he said, and he held his watch to the / light of the glowing Last Line: Feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to %grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels BERDACHE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: North american french Last Line: To get a husband Subject(s): Marriage BERTHA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She seem'd so gentle, she seem'd so good Last Line: May pass through her confinement scatheless. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BEST DAYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two days are the best of a man's wedded life Last Line: The days when he marries and buries his wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives BETHROTHAL AND WEDLOCK; EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth the artist voweth lover's vows Last Line: As when he craved some boon and she was coy! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BETWEEN A CONTRACTOR AND HIS WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a good day's work, two contracts made" Last Line: "I'll think of what must soon approach, / and fit myself to fit a coach" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;marriage;trade; Weddings;husbands;wives BETWEEN TWO LOVES, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I gotta love for angela Last Line: So w'at I gona do? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Variant Title(s): I Can No Marry Both O' Dem Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BETWEEN WIVES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was trying to teach him a lesson Last Line: That is the killing thing about him Subject(s): Divorce; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Women BILL BROWN, by E. S. SORENSON Poem Text First Line: I met bill brown on the prospect track Last Line: Astride of a camel cow. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BILLY COLLINS' WIFE, by LISA BEYER Poem Source First Line: My deserted island Last Line: When his wife was not around Subject(s): Collins, Billy (b. 1941); Marriage BIRTHDAY POEM, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Our fathers' slow climb Last Line: And the love, just beginning Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Beginnings; Love Affairs; Marriage; Parents BIRTHDAY POEM TO MY WIFE, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you considered how inconsequential we all Last Line: Devours me and like inconsequence I'm little and lost Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Birthdays; Marriage BLAME, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now my mother has a new man Last Line: Blaming each tire with his foot Subject(s): Change; Marriage; Mothers; Parents BLESSING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or/blurt %stages Last Line: Get yr own map, woman Subject(s): Marriage BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bless her dear little heart!' said my mate, and he pointed out to me Last Line: "the wheel!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BLUE NORTHER, by ISAAC W. WADE Poem Text First Line: Alone and self-imprisoned there, the town Last Line: To make them wish they were in hammond's place. Subject(s): Friendship; Marriage; Seasons; Towns; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLUE-BEARD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fadlallah: good neighbour, be quiet! - my word is a law Last Line: But 'tis always unlucky to marry thirteen! Subject(s): Duplicity; Islam; Marriage; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: A MASQUE OF BIGOTRY, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bluebeard of this drama, you must know Last Line: He was as one might say a self-made widower. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOB, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bob had a nigger woman Last Line: For seven more she cried! ... Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Murder; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOLEROS 14, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night enters the plaza, step by step, in the singular Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology BORGIA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no borgia venom; gandia fell Last Line: The fields of christendom a borgian bull. Subject(s): Borgia, Lucrezia [lucretia] (1480-1519); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOY JOHNNY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you'll busk you as a bride Last Line: O boy johnny.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BREAKING THE BRANCHES OF WILLOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A date tree grows before my gate Last Line: And this year again there's no good news Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage BRIDAL BALLAD, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ring is on my hand Last Line: May not be happy now. Subject(s): Marriage; Regret; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDAL DAY, by COMPTON MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: This bridal day with gold I will enchain Last Line: In captured moments of our bridal day Subject(s): Love; Marriage BRIDAL EVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, my heart, my heart, good-night Last Line: To keep the lily there. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDAL FLOWERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bind the white orange-flowers in her hair Last Line: The bride and morning bathe their wreath with tears Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Omens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDAL OF ANDALLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rise up, rise up, xarifa! Lay the golden cushion down Last Line: To gaze on false andalla with all the gazing town! Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Grief; Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced BRIDAL SERENADE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, thou sittest alone above Last Line: I'll bless thee dying at the door. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDE, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to be a bride Last Line: My love, what more can happen %to you and me? Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Marriage; Women BRIDE, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to be a bride Last Line: To you and to me? Subject(s): Marriage BRIDE, by ALLYSON BENNETT Poem Source First Line: After five years you've grown thin enough Last Line: Wonder what ornament is left %to be removed Subject(s): Marriage BRIDE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: He asks to use your phone Last Line: And lead him through %the already open door Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Strangers; Unfaithfulness BRIDE, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book was dull, its pictures Last Line: Who wrestles with the ages %to give the world a bride Subject(s): Brides; Marriage 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, by GEORGE SARANDARIS Poem Source First Line: Joy comes to us as a bride Last Line: It is time with his flute Subject(s): Marriage BRIDE, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: My circle is narrow and the ring of my thoughts Last Line: Goes round my finger Subject(s): Marriage BRIDE & GROOM, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: It was getting rather late he Last Line: That my father's bride should be my %father's groom! Subject(s): Marriage BRIDE AND GROOM, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: The river lies Last Line: The tide. . . . Subject(s): Marriage; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDE AND GROOM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Above the typhoon Subject(s): 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 BRIDE WALTZ, by EVERT TAUBE Poem Source First Line: Sound accordion, clarinet, fiddles and flute Last Line: How our next meeting falls no one tells Subject(s): Marriage BRIDE'S MOTHER, by CHRISTIE LUND Poem Text First Line: They see you as a woman, as a bride Last Line: Within my heart. Forgive me that I weep. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDEGROOM, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man I shall beget tomorrow Last Line: Can I then be free? Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism BRIDGE, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: The living Last Line: And deal Subject(s): Bridge (card Game); Brothers; Death; Marriage; Memory; Uncles BUCK O' KINGWATTER, by ROBERT ANDERSON OF CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: When I was single, I rid a fine nag Last Line: Sing oh! The lasses ... Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BURNING GHAT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sutee %a suture Last Line: On the flaming corpse Subject(s): Marriage BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think the ending can be right Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think the ending can be right Last Line: At the exhausted lovers where they sleep Subject(s): 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 BUTTONS, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: She took to using ever stronger Last Line: Waiting for her hand to anchor %what he'd torn loose again Subject(s): Marriage; Sewing BY CANDLE'S LIGHT A BEDOUIN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say 'tree' say 'on the hill.' say 'game' say it is 'over'. Say (turning to Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BY CANDLE'S LIGHT A BEDOUIN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say 'tree' say 'on the hill.' say 'game' say it is 'over'. Say (turning to Last Line: Something needs a marxist blessing Subject(s): Marriage BY PARCELS POST, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my love a parcel Last Line: Eight-and-twenty years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Marriage; Postal Service; Seasons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen 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 CANCEROUS, by R. M. RYAN Poem Source First Line: My first wife worked in a laboratory Last Line: Must go on somewhere, killing as she lives Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Marriage CANDLELIGHT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing the porch in the hazy dusk Last Line: Had granted its permission Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CANTO AMOR, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream in a dream the heavy soul somewhere Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CANTO AMOR, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream in a dream the heavy soul somewhere Last Line: Sing then beyond my song: whirl & rejoice! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Marriage CASSANDER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cassander! O cassander!' - her mother's voice seems cle'r Last Line: "cassander! O cassander!"" jes' a-callin' thataway." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Mothers; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CATHARINA: SECOND PART; ON HER MARRIAGE TO GEORGE COURTENAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe it or not, as you chuse Last Line: How soon I can make her a mother Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CATHEDRAL AT CHARTRES, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Here, the great arched doorway Last Line: There will be no future %such as theirs Subject(s): Marriage CATO AT HIS WEDDING, by LUCAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No festoons, no plaited garlands were draped from the lintel Last Line: Bonds of the marriage bed: his iron nature %even legitimate love Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Subject(s): Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Marriage CAUTIOUS ALICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So good a wife doth lissy make Last Line: She with his brethren only lieth. Subject(s): Marriage; Praise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CEYX AND ALCYONE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prodigies affect the pious prince Last Line: And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CH'IN CHIA'S WIFE'S REPLY, by MRS. CH'IN CHIA Poem Text First Line: My poor body is alas unworthy Last Line: The tears fall down and wet my skirt. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Sickness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not Last Line: For once, I was what I would always be Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved, through years of happiness Last Line: Of my whole another gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first and my second, united, display Last Line: And his successor came into office next morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHARIVARI/SYNTAGMA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something amiss awry the whole community knows it. An ill-starred Last Line: Hell breaks loose. Charivari punishes reprehensible unions. Charivari Subject(s): Marriage CHARMING WOMAN, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So miss myrtle is going to marry Last Line: Don't marry a charming woman, %if you are a sensible man! Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady Subject(s): Marriage; Women CHECKLIST, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The housework, the factory work, the work Last Line: Is done, those unfillable spaces %of the calvinist, or certain marriage beds Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Love; Marriage CHESTNUT IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house, the Last Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house for wooing and for wedding. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Chestnut Trees; Home; Love; Marriage; May (month); Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHINA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acts to father Last Line: Image of the marrying maiden do prosper Subject(s): Marriage 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 CHOICE OF A WIFE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fluttering lovers, giddy boys Last Line: And made the eye proclaim the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHOSEN OF BRIDEGROOMS, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carry your greeting to the chosen of bridegrooms Last Line: Like stars through the thickness of clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Marriage CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet the fates befriend her! Last Line: I'd gladly give -- myself! Subject(s): Christmas; Marriage; Nativity, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHURCH BELLS AT MIDNIGHT, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: You wake up. In your own time. Like a dull red aster Last Line: While the chaos lasts. Then measure the shadow and the sky Subject(s): Marriage; Morning; Night CID'S COURTSHIP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now of rodrigo de bivar great was the fame that run Last Line: An honored husband thou shalt have in thy dead father's place Subject(s): Courage; Courts And Courtiers; Courtship; Marriage; Victory CID'S WEDDING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within his hall of burgos the king prepares the feast Last Line: Than utter words so meaningless as she did when she spoke Subject(s): Brides; Cid, El (1043-1099); Love; Marriage CID: PART 9, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God grant, who all Last Line: Accounted a traitor Subject(s): Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Brides; Cid, El (1043-1099); Marriage CINEMATOGRAPHER'S FARO ISLAND LOG, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like so many stories this begins Last Line: What is your favorite body of water. And why Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Water CIVIL MARRIAGE, by CECILIA BUSTAMANTE Poem Source First Line: At the ceremonies %people gathered Last Line: Like rare flowers %with their roots in reverse Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Marriage CLASSIC OF POETRY: 12. 'MAGPIE'S NEST', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O the magpie has its nest Last Line: The bride is going to her home, %a hundred coaches in her train Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Magpies; Marriage CLEANUP; FOR JOSEPH GEMIN, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Brown apple cores float %in half glasses of guinness Last Line: The rugged love %the industrial strength Subject(s): Love; Marriage CLEARISTA, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For death, not for love, hast thou Last Line: Light to the tomb Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Death; Marriage CLIMBS A TOWER AS IN A TALE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moment hangs from a mouth. I love you christ the husband but trees Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CLIMBS A TOWER AS IN A TALE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moment hangs from a mouth. I love you christ the husband but trees Last Line: Out the eyes. Left to devices one does this & up a vertiginous step & up a step Subject(s): Marriage CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CODA A CODE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lip againe thy firm seal Last Line: In sentenc'd incision Subject(s): Marriage COFFEE KLATCH, by MARY MAKOFSKE Poem Source First Line: Lynn says her husband drinks Last Line: Waiting thinking proud %girl not one little sin Subject(s): Marriage COLERIDGE CROSSING THE PLAIN OF JARS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gypsies carry sacks of walnuts out of groves Last Line: Was in her eyes like a widow's soul. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Gypsies; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Snow; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLIN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle maid, consent to be Last Line: Quit for these thy liberty. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLLISION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wind and change Last Line: A hand of leaves into dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Healing; Marriage; Cures; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision." Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism 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 COMFORT IN AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore starts my bosom's lord? Last Line: "to wrap around my head!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Comfort; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery COMING ROUND, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis all right, as I knew it would be Last Line: He was willing to do so himself, I came round! Subject(s): Marriage; Quarrels; Reconciliation 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 COMMON LAW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Common law you are always on your waking alarm by communal Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COMMON LAW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Common law you are always on your waking alarm by communal Last Line: Common law is fine Subject(s): Marriage COMMON TUNE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask those %who Last Line: & distant mandible lore Subject(s): Marriage COMPLAINT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full 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 COMPOSED ON THE EVE OF THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay Last Line: To her indulgent lord become more dear. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONFESSION, by JAMES+(3) KOCH Poem Source First Line: I'm in love with the morton salt girl Last Line: And dream of skinny-dipping beneath the stars in vast salt seas Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Salt; Swimming; Water CONJUGI CARISSIMAE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marble fragment, freed at last Last Line: "conjugi carissimae." Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Past; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONJURGIUM NON CONJURGIUM; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dick leads, it is known, with his vixenish wife Last Line: Should surely be written the conjurgal state! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONNUBIAL COMPANY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my dear, what makes you always yawn?" Last Line: And when alone I'm weary Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives CONNUNII FLORES, OR THE WELL-WISHES AT WEDDINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the temple to your home Last Line: The ravens yeares, go hence more ripe then old. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONSOLATION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife, I dread to come and tell you Last Line: Have revealed to us our arms %enclosed about each other Subject(s): Marriage CONSTANCY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's bereaved, I'm sorely grieved Last Line: The force of lethe's wave. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement CONTEMPLATIONS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time now past in [or, is] the autumnal tide Last Line: Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness CONTENTION BETWIXT A WIFE, A WIDOW, AND A MAID, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Widow, well met; whither go you today Subject(s): Marriage; Widows And Widowers CONTEST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was unarmed, still the cintest was fair Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONTRASTED SCENES FROM REAL LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand Last Line: Thy potent aid—be still the outcast's friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes CONVERSATION FOUND AT THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: PRAGUE, 1997, by SUE ANN ALDERSON Poem Source First Line: I gave my coat to a woman when I went in terezin Last Line: The masquerade ends. %you see? Subject(s): Conversation; Marriage CONVERSATION OF OLD HUSBANDS, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's gone, clemente, I know Last Line: When you look at her, clemente, %I see her too Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Marriage COPE'S RULE, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: According to edward drinker cope, Subject(s): Size & Shape; Marriage; Survival; Height; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CORN, by JR. THEODORE WOROZBYT Poem Source First Line: Friend, what does it mean when my wife buys corn Last Line: Tremble and sweeten the dark field stretched above me Subject(s): Corn; Marriage 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 CORYDON'S LAMENT AND RESOLUTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wept and I have sighed Last Line: Nor one tear for chloe shed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Love; Marriage; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUNSEL UPON MARRIAGE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My master bukton, when of christ our king Last Line: In fredam; for ful hard is to be bonde. Variant Title(s): Lenvoy De Chaucer A Bukton Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUNTRY MARRIAGE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They married out of school Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives COUPLE, by SANDRA HOCHMAN Poem Source First Line: A greek ship Last Line: To %the post office Subject(s): Marriage COUPLE, by WALTER STONE Poem Source First Line: I remember them, man and wife, in their little car Last Line: Recall their elegance in pumpkin's rind. %some compromise is possible with life Subject(s): Marriage COUPLE (FOR ISABEL ARCHER), by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full 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 COURAGE, by BERNETTA L. ISBELL Poem Text First Line: They say she lives a sinful life Last Line: I'm married to bob. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COURTSHIP, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced, they say, upon a day Last Line: As all their friends and neighbours know Subject(s): Courtship; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COURTSHIP [AND MATRIMONY], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fairest of earth! If thou wilt hear my vow Last Line: "confound those children, but I'll make them quiet" Subject(s): Courtship;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives COUSIN AGGIE: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seal of sixty summers now Last Line: If gone before, we soon shall meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips COVET, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a grandmother's working class gold band & later when one Last Line: To surrogate-marry even if a junkie is simply hungry Subject(s): Marriage COYOTE ALMOST TAKES A WIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds improbable but one day coyote went along the human road & Last Line: Way off the human road Subject(s): Marriage CRAZY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've said that he and I had been crazy Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 CROWNED AND WEDDED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When last before her people's face her own fair face she bent Last Line: The blessings happy peasants have, be thine, o crowned queen!' Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUB LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I am thinking tonight of the sweethearts I had Last Line: The best in the world for my wife. Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUPID ACQUITTED, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever jove renews mankind Last Line: And pray—what answer shall they make? Subject(s): Cupid; Jupiter (god); Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roseate darling Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CURE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: - will it cure? That's the mighty thing %- yes Subject(s): Marriage DALLOW'S BLUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An autumn pall of heat hung sultrily over Last Line: And time swept on and dallow's landing forgot. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Marriage; Prostitution; Seasons; Fall; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Harlots; Whores; Brothels DANCE FIGURE, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark eyed, / o woman of my dreams Subject(s): Marriage; Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DANCER FROM THE DANCE, by SUZANNE JUHASZ Poem Source First Line: We are lovers Last Line: The finale is always the same Subject(s): Marriage DANCER HOLDING STILL, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her husband has left and no man moves her Subject(s): Marriage DARBY AND JOAN, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darby dear, we are old and gray Last Line: Always the same to your old wife joan. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DARK O' NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In some places a woman would marry a woman which torques the Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime DARK O' NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In some places a woman would marry a woman which torques the Last Line: Night what do they do? Subject(s): Marriage; Night DAYS OF '74, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the future then but affirmation Last Line: To that first word repeated all night long Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DE AMICITIIS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though care and strife Last Line: Without a fear my wife shall chide me! Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEAD DUCKS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: My friend's husband weighs down Last Line: What are a few dead ducks %compared to our children's joy? Subject(s): Ducks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Mothers DEAR MRS. BERRIGAN, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm Last Line: Dear mrs. Berrigan: Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Marriage; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEATH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are as maidens one and all Last Line: A quiet household life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DECEMBER AND MAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said nestor, to his pretty wife, quite sorrowful one day Last Line: "I thank ye, sir, for telling me -- for now I'll grieve the more!" Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEDICATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book by any yet unread Last Line: And god shall bless you from above Subject(s): Books; Children; Home; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Puritans; Sickness; Women DEDICATION OF THE FIRST SONNETS TO A FRIEND ..., by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could wish my numbers fell Last Line: And outlive the last farewell. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 DIAL-THOUGHTS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee at daybreak still Last Line: But in thy breath from heaven above. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Loss; Love; Marriage; Memory; Thought; Sunrise; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SQUEAMISH COTTING MECHANIC AND HIS WIFE, by EDWARD WARD Poem Text First Line: Is the fish ready? You're a tedious while Last Line: When heaven knows I do but gull the fool. Subject(s): Conversation; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DIALOGUE OF WATCHING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me celebrate you. I Last Line: One more beautiful than you Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women DIES SANGUINIS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touch him %like a priest Last Line: Sacrificing virility completely Subject(s): Marriage DIRGE AND HYMENAL, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Woe! This is death's hour Last Line: Woe! Woe! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Happiness; Marriage; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DISCLOSURE, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: I am married to a bureaucrat, a mid-level administrator. Thomas looks like Last Line: And moves to the middle of our bedroom floor, that I did not carry the burden of %audience, the gift Subject(s): Love; Marriage DISSOLVE IN SLOW MOTION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you watch a marriage / dissolve, in slow motion Last Line: It all gets thrown away Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DISSOLVE IN SLOW MOTION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you watch a marriage %dissolve, in slow motion Last Line: It all gets thrown away Subject(s): Marriage DISSOLVE IN SLOW MOTION, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you watch a marriage %dissolve, in slow motion Last Line: It all gets thrown away Subject(s): Marriage DIVERTERE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That couples go free Last Line: Marries for eternity Subject(s): Marriage DIVINE JEALOUSY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the door dear marryings Last Line: Hitched, just married, tied the knot, gave over to a lord Subject(s): Marriage DOCTOR -., by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rabbi told me: on the day allowed Last Line: I tell it, as the rabbi told it me. Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Hell; Physicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Doctors DOLCINO TO MARGARET, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world goes up and the world goes down Last Line: To its work in the morning gay. Variant Title(s): Hey, Nonny!;song Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: ARCHIBALD LOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archibald lowell, owner of the times Last Line: And brings them to the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; News; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: GREGORY WENNER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory wenner's brother married the mother Last Line: A secret long concealed: -- Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Marriage; Passion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry murray, father of elenor murray Last Line: The while she spoke: Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Marriage; Youth; Dead, The; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: JOHN SCOFIELD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see I worked for arthur fouche, he said Last Line: Spoke to them in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: LOVERIDGE CHASE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the secret of the death of elenor Last Line: Of elenor murray and their days at nice: Subject(s): Death; Letters; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think, she said at first / my daughter did not kill herself. I'm sure Last Line: And talk about the case. Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Life; Marriage; Suicide; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merival, of a mother fair and good Last Line: Tells merival this story: Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Undertakers; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE MAJOR AND ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray and petain, the major Last Line: "I have a sorrow, too, as deep as yours." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, by 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 DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the nuptial curtain bright' Last Line: And bore his lamp away. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESTIC INTERIOR, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: A loose cannon always marries a wet blanket Last Line: Really, she still likes the macho stuff. He likes, he hates %her mouth Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Marriage DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your wife left before you woke Last Line: Burns less brightly. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The DOMESTICS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've had about a thousand maids, who Last Line: For clarence, william, stephen, fred, adolphus, james and harry. Subject(s): Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DON'T DIVORCE ME, by CHRISTIANA EDUGBEKE ODE Poem Source First Line: People, your attention, everyone! Last Line: You lend a hand and carry the hardship with me Subject(s): Igede (african People); Marriage DOPPELGANGER FLAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marry that ye may prosper & conceive a better way to be innoculated Last Line: Virtual marriages where economies clash by night & yet you prosper you grow Subject(s): Marriage DOROTHY'S DOWER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest dorothy,' said john Last Line: "went for cigars and brandy!" Subject(s): Marriage; Money; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism DOVECOTT MILL: 11. WEDDED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the village church where a child she was led Last Line: And powders her pretty face and lips. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 DOWRY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Marriage DR. EGG: 4 DR. EGG'S WIFE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I send dr. Egg Last Line: He acts %as though I've seen a mirage Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Psychology DRAM THREE TIMES STRANGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a dram love is a cur love what makes the world go rue love is Last Line: A father both stranger than a curtain when a stranger arrives Subject(s): Marriage DREAM OF LIGHT IN THE SHADE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I am married I spend Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DRESSING THE BRIDE (A FRAGMENT), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, after bath, the slave-girls brought Last Line: Trembled with its imprisoned fire! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 DROUGHT, by SALLY LOGAN Poem Source First Line: My first summer of marriage Last Line: Until my husband trapped it, then let it go Subject(s): Drought; Heat; Marriage; Summer DUO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Marriage EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman named earlene Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman named earlene Last Line: The way things are Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 26. THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vested priest before the altar stands Last Line: Weep not, meek bride! Uplift thy timid brow. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 ED, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ed was in love with a cocktail waitress Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EDGAR'S WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that edgar's kind and good Last Line: And I never shall make it mine! Subject(s): Marriage; Dissatisfaction EFFIE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was wearin' awa'! She was wearin' awa'! Last Line: The dear lassie dwells wi' the angels o' licht. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EGON SCHIELE'S WIFE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: More since her illness he tried to think of her not purely as a wife Subject(s): Schiele, Egon (1891-1918); Marriage; Models; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EIGHT EXTREMES, by LI YE Poem Source First Line: What is closest and farthest apart? Last Line: A man and wife Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Marriage ELAPIDATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin %intacta %she is 'one-in-herself' Last Line: Throttle manhood's %dowry Subject(s): Marriage ELEGY, by JOHN MACLAURIN Poem Text First Line: Nor hammond's love nor shenstone's was sincere Last Line: A country-wedding shall thy hopes deprive. Alternate Author Name(s): Dreghorn, Lord Subject(s): Household Employees; Love - Cultural Differences; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEGY FOR MY DECEASED HUSBAND, by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: Shadows of the wutong tree Last Line: Tight, as willow floss clings to mud Subject(s): Marriage ELEGY FOR MY HUSBAND, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was there is no longer there: Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism END OF A MARRIAGE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Three years after the death Last Line: How to divorce a man %who has been dead three years? Subject(s): Absence; Child Molesting; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women ENTRY IN THE MARRIAGE REGISTER, SNELLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1671, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The first day of november Last Line: If god be not merciful to him and take his wife Subject(s): Marriage ENVY AND FORTUNE; A TALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says envy to fortune 'soft, soft, madame flirt!' Last Line: And garrick next season will certainly burst her. Subject(s): Envy; Fortune; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tom prais'd his friend (who changed his state) Last Line: Twill be the end of mine Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives EPIGRAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One queen artemisia, as old stories tell Last Line: Not to show her respect, but to save the expense! Subject(s): Funerals; Marriage EPIGRAM ON SAID OCCASION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, hadst thou but spar'd his life Last Line: Thou'se get the saul o'boot. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPIGRAM ON THE MARRIAGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Saint paul has declared, that persons though twain Last Line: The apostle, methinks, would have altered his tone, %and cried, these two splinters shall make but o Subject(s): Cambridge University; Marriage; Slenderness EPILOGUE, by FRANCES TALBOT Poem Text First Line: And must I then -- the fatal knot once tied Last Line: To crown our triumph as the curtain falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Morley, Countess Of Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism EPILOGUE TO ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE,' DESIGNED FOR MRS. OLDFIELD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prodigious this! The frail-one of our play Last Line: Come here in crowds, and stare the strumpet down. Subject(s): Marriage; Oldfield, Anne (1683-1730); Plays & Playwrights; Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPISODE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman passes by an apartment house Last Line: From room to room. Variant Title(s): Story Subject(s): Marriage; Story-telling; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPISTLE FROM MRS. YONGE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Think not this paper comes with vain pretense Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy EPISTLE FROM MRS. YONGE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Think not this paper comes with vain pretense Last Line: And you the father of a glorious race %endowed with ch - l's strength and low - r's face Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Unfaithfulness EPISTLE TO CLEMENA. OCCASIONED BY AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE AUTHOR, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Though you my resolution still accuse / and for misanthropy condemn the muse Last Line: But harder yet an honest man to choose. Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my wife is dead, and here she lies" Last Line: "nobody knows, and nobody cares" Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives EPITAPH FOR FIRE AND POWER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You might as well haul up Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH ON 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 EPITAPH ON [OR INTENED FOR] HIS WIFE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Last Line: Now she's at rest. And so am I. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May! Be thou never graced with birds that sing Last Line: Mine only died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH: M.M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who call her mother and who calls her wife Last Line: Look on her grave and see not death but life. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMENT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other weddings are so shrewd on the sofa, short Subject(s): Love - Unrquited; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You left me gasping on the shore Last Line: A milky flank, a drowned, reviving face. Subject(s): Marriage; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean; Feminism EPITHALAMION, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye learned sisters which have oftentimes Last Line: And for short time an endlesse moniment. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION 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 RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come virgin tapers of pure waxe Last Line: Sweet'st in the close. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMIUM, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is here, urania's son Last Line: Harnessed angels, hand on sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMIUM, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This body of my mother, pierced by me Last Line: My sister, heralded by no moan, no sound. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Marriage; Parents; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood EPITHALAMIUM, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, - sound the notes of joy Last Line: And endless blessings crown their days! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITHALAMIUM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The marriage bells have rung their peal Last Line: Here's to—success to her successor! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Wedding Song; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium 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 EQUINOX 1980, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the stillness after dawn we two Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EROS TURANNOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She fears him, and will always ask Last Line: Where down the blind are driven. Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Destiny; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 EVE OF THE BRIDAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! It has come; the strange, o'ermastering hour Last Line: And golden gloom and tender silence meet. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVELYN NESBIT IN MINNESOTA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The cornstalks Last Line: Who, looking, %have become so handsome Subject(s): Beauty; Marriage EVEN EVE 'N' ADAM, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Till we fight again. Come on and kiss me, dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVEN KEEL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking you want to secure 'on an even keel' is not enough in this Last Line: And then be sacrificed the next day to a tutelary deity with your feather headdress on Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVEN KEEL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking you want to secure 'on an even keel' is not enough in this Last Line: A tuletary deity with your feather headdress on Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships EVENING AND MY DEAD ONCE HUSBAND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It does not help to know Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage EVERYTHINGS A VERB, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Boundaries or the lack thereof Last Line: My junk yard dog husband Subject(s): Marriage; Psychology; Self-criticism EVIL WOMAN, by ODEH IGBANG Poem Source First Line: The matter is indeed following the way of the past! Last Line: It will irritate your throat! Subject(s): Anger; Igede (african People); Marriage EXCHANGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She goes out Last Line: On time's diet %of bile and gall Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage EXPECTATION, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fleet wheels had whirled for us, deep hedge-rows threading Last Line: Swooped startled, as a bell began to—toll. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EXPEDITION TO A LAKE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop: if Last Line: & takes a husband Subject(s): Marriage FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE WOLF, THE SHEEP, AND THE LAMB, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Duty demands the parent's voice Last Line: Beneath his jaws the victim dies. Subject(s): Fables; Lambs; Marriage; Sheep; Wolves; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FACT VERSUS FANCY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When last I strolled these ways with grace Last Line: His circumstances! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wealth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes FAITH AND HOPE, by REMBRANDT PEALE Poem Text First Line: O, don't be sorrowful, darling! Last Line: Is the gate that leads to him. Variant Title(s): Don't Be Sorrowful Darling Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FALSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False! Good god, I am dreaming! Last Line: I walk in the dark alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FAMILY MAN, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are talking in bed. You show me snapshots Last Line: That is what comes of snapshots. Of talking bed Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Marriage FAMILY ROMANCE, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister once of weeds & a dark water that held still Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Failure; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 FARE THEE WELL, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our banns be published like a tax Last Line: "oh now -- or fare thee well!"" -- theodosius." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Last Line: Better, my lover, dead Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; God; Marriage; Religion FATHER'S WEDDING POEM TO HIS SON, by JOSEPH EZOBI Poem Source First Line: My son, on this thy wedding day rejoice Last Line: God bless you twain, with love as angels love Subject(s): Marriage FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS FORBIDDEN TO MARRY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Remember there's no marrying Last Line: About marrying and burning Subject(s): Faust; Marriage FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Last Line: Found, in doubled vision no cost %of time or death shall blind Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms And Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968) FEBRUARY, 1951, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: In the cold middle of the month, in th late gray sky afternoon, a young Last Line: His place in this watery world Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Marriage FELL IN LOVE, GOT MARIED, by DANIEL BACHHUBER Poem Source First Line: You step out of the car - your first blind date, ever. You've grilled your Last Line: Two lives to work together Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song FEMINIST'S INCORRECT WEDDING SONG, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: We talk of growth Last Line: Don't tell the women Subject(s): Marriage; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Women's Rights FERTILE HOUSE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's eros seems %a bout to act upon Last Line: & command a settled fertile house Subject(s): Marriage FEW HAPPY MATCHES, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, mighty love, and teach my song Last Line: And cupids yoke the doves. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIE ON LOVE, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, fie on foolish love! It not befits Last Line: To marry is to make it ten times worse. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST MARRIAGE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made it cross country Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Cancer (disease); Reconciliation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 FIRST WIFE TO THE SECOND, by GLENNA MORRIS CLEVENGER Poem Text First Line: All's fair! My dear Last Line: Bearing a mortal wound. Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FLAME OR FLAMING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was to be a day to old flames a day dedicated to the flaming of way Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FLAME OR FLAMING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was to be a day to old flames a day dedicated to the flaming of way Last Line: Which is salvation for her exed out of here Subject(s): Marriage 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 FOR A BRIDE WHO DIED ON HER WEDDING DAY, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That morn which saw me made a bride Last Line: Supply'd the epithalamie. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Variant Title(s): Upon A Maid That Dyed The Day She Was Marryed Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A MARRIAGE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gives most dangerous sight Last Line: In its own solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A MARRIAGE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gives most dangerous sight Last Line: That once shed its own blood %in its own solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage 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 Full 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 DELIVERANCE FROM A FEVER, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sorrows had begirt me round Last Line: Who hath redeemed my soul from pit, %praises to him for aye Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness FOR FRAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She packs the flower beds with leaves Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The FOR GOODNESS' SAK!, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: For goodness' sak'! She say to me Last Line: "for goodness' sak'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR INSTANCE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gave me good food Last Line: I loved her? That is how %I saw things. But not she Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage FOR J.W., ON HIS MARRIAGE IN THE FAITH, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here and in this time of the second caesar Subject(s): Marriage; Catholicism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR JOEL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some simple Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR JOHN DALE, BARBER-SURGEON; BAKEWELL CHURCH, DERBYSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This thing in life might raise some jealousy Last Line: A period's come to all their toilsome lives, %the good man'squiet; still are both his wives Subject(s): Marriage FOR MY HUSBAND, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a dream Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR MY HUSBAND, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a dream Last Line: Whose sad head %looms over any choice you make? Subject(s): 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 FOR RICHER, FOR POORER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times over, since that day Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Marriage; Aging; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR SOMEBODY'S MARRIAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All night in a toughtful Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE FIRST TWO WIVES OF COLONEL FREEBORNE, 1650, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Under one stone two precious gems do lie Last Line: Which are locked fast; then, then shall I see, %my jewels to my joy, my jewels me Subject(s): Marriage FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FORCED BRIDAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I saw her on the bridal night Last Line: Her temples chafe - but all too late-- %the wound's a brokenheart! Subject(s): Longing; 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 FORGIVENESS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: One day after my father died Last Line: In our eyes, make every day blaze alive Subject(s): Desire; Family Life; Forgiveness; Marriage; Parents FORGOTTEN, by CORA L. BUTTERFIELD Poem Text First Line: Her pathway was strewn with rose petals Last Line: And gone the love he bestowed. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FORGOTTEN FLOWERS TO A BRIDE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were left behind, but we would not stay Last Line: For an eden-wreath to thy love and thee. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOUNDATIONS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin fidgeted, screwed the knuckles of one hand in the palm Last Line: In the mud like a slab of uncured concrete Subject(s): Marriage FOUR MONARCHYES, SELS., by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next o're the helespont a bridge he made Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 24, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I wed a fair young man that day and night could please me Last Line: As I was by one brought forth I would bring forth another. Subject(s): Mothrers; Marriage FRAGMENT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pilgrim weary, toil-subdued Last Line: Appear'd to feel alarm, and fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs FRANK SINATRA, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love to listen to men in bars, %the lonely drinkers Last Line: Where frank sinatra sang %only for them Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Insanity; Marriage; Men; Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998); Singing And Singers FREQUENT FLIER II, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How delicious, to step into this new skin! Last Line: His wife in chagall's the kiss! Subject(s): Air Travel; Marriage FRIAR BACON: THE DEAD WIFE SOON FORGOTTEN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, serlsby, is thy wife so / lately dead? Last Line: ('friar bacon,' xiii., p. 70.) Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 FROM FRAGILE CRAFT: ON THE STRANGE LIVES AND UNTIMELY DEATHS OF MARY, by MARK RUDMAN Poem Source First Line: There is no end to the torment that comes from watching dead actors Last Line: One morning she would wake refreshed! %to a new beginning Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Death; Marriage; Suicide FROM THE END, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And then they set a huge table, and a Last Line: Beetle - peacefully sleeps on an almond leaf Subject(s): History; Marriage 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 FULFILLMENT SURPASSING, by HELEN REGAN SKILLERN Poem Text First Line: They taught her marriage was a veil Last Line: In the halo round a child. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FUTURE DUTY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mister a bold apostrophe an article to do bidding of an astonishment Last Line: Into future duty, future duty the laws do tighten their claws upon Subject(s): Marriage G-PLAN ANGST, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: He has everything Last Line: Then one day Subject(s): Marriage GAMETE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unless %chromosomal Last Line: But mine & husband's %to burst Subject(s): Marriage GARDEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After the wedding she glimpsed herself Last Line: She didn't like the way %her bones were arranged. Subject(s): Marriage; Self-doubt GARDENS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my walled california patio Last Line: Speaks on this bell's voice. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Memory; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GATHERINGS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Having let the people of our youth Last Line: Of the comings of the goings %of the other Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Past GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said %once Last Line: - paint them - %ruby red Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex GENRE: INTERIOR, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Some day I shall hope to come again and find / you Last Line: Light at the chatter of your youngest boy. Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GEORDIE'S MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM FINLAYSON Poem Text First Line: O' ken ye that geordie and jean Last Line: As naebody witness'd their beddin'! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leaving hagen the night came on Last Line: So amen to my invocation! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Westphalia, Germany; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GESTATIONAL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A next incredulous time o belly time was again another being blessed Last Line: Paragraphs, staunch architectures of love Subject(s): Marriage GETTING TO KNOW YOU, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept into one another Last Line: We were relative strangers. Subject(s): Marriage; Retrospection; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GHOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GIANTS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's old parents in the desert on folding chairs Last Line: To each memory station -- pause, hold, mute, flash. Subject(s): Abandonment; Lies; Marriage; Quarrels; Secrets; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements GIVE BACK, GIVE BACK, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I married him for length Last Line: At the long entrance of the children. Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Marriage; Pleasure; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GLASS HYMEN RITE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & smash a glass Last Line: O smash the glass Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GLASS HYMEN RITE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & smash a glass Last Line: O smash the glass Subject(s): Marriage GOD'S HIDDEN PURPOSE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long %way %'round Last Line: (the real sheikh knows when I am pure or impure Subject(s): Marriage GOLDEN WEDDING, by JAMES ABRAHAM MARTLING Poem Source First Line: Not they are fully wed who just Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage GOOD ADVICE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease thy blushes and thy sorrow Last Line: And on earth to peace attain. Subject(s): Advice; Grief; Marriage; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOOD 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 GOOD LUCK, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter, be the rich man's wife, / provided then thou'll be for life Last Line: "how small a price brides bring!" Subject(s): Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes GOOD SCHOLARS MAKE BAD HUSBANDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Girls, don't ever marry students! Last Line: Waiting to eat your earnings Subject(s): Marriage; Scholarship And Scholars GOODWIFE PLAYING THE VIRGINALS; AFTER A PAINTING BY DE WITTE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman's hands are hungry birds Last Line: The man is trapped by the open door. Subject(s): Housewives; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GRACE'S CHOICE, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw fair-featured grace Last Line: But wealth and—looks and pedigree. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beauty; Marriage; Wealth; Heritage; Heredity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GREEN GRAVEL SONG; FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Round the green gravel the grass is so green Last Line: So off with the glove and on with the ring - %to-morrow, to-morrow, the wedding begins Subject(s): Marriage GRIESLY WIFE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, my newly married wife Subject(s): Marriage 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 GROWING OLD WOMAN, GRUMBLING OLD MAN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I've run out of patience, old man Last Line: We needed to leave an hour ago Subject(s): Aging; Christmas; Marriage GROWING TOGETHER, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have tangled together Last Line: That old growing together again %a completion like the exhaling %of a single breath Subject(s): Marriage 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 HA! HA!, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer suns are glancing Last Line: Ha! Ha! Ha! Malgherita! Malgherita! Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HAIL, WEDLOCK! HAIL, INVIOLABLE TIE, by WILLIAM+(1) LIVINGSTON Poem Source Subject(s): Marriage HALF-EATEN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fortune-teller told me I was going to Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Cougars; Marriage; Palmistry; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS BLACKLOCK Poem Source First Line: Thou genius of connubial love, attend! Last Line: Then let th' eternal page record them mine Subject(s): Love; Marriage HARK, HARK! O'ER THE PLAINS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark! O'er the plains how the merry bells Last Line: O then let me die an old maid. Subject(s): Marriage; Spinsters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Old Maids HARMONY IN THE BOUDOIR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After years of marriage, he stands at the foot of the bed and Subject(s): Marriage; Nothingness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full 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 HARRIET SMITHSON BERLIOZ, A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: My dearest hector, %I take shame on myself that I was not Last Line: I once moved through, pursue me now, or you ... ? %your loving wife, %harriet Subject(s): Letters; Marriage HAVE YOU SEEN MY MISSUS?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you've heard of my children, two, seeking for each other?" Last Line: Till I tumble into bed - it's then I miss my missus Subject(s): Kisses;marriage;obesity; Weddings;husbands;wives HE'S ASLEEP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone was ringing Last Line: In the room, except his wife Subject(s): Sleep; Marriage; Man-woman Relationships 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 HEARTBEAT OF THE WOODS, by ALICE DERRY Poem Source First Line: There's a grouse hidden somewhere inside Last Line: Lie in the clumps of phlox and primrose %their white blinding in windy sunshine Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Marriage; Solitude HEIGH-HO!, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty young maiden sat on the grass Last Line: Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Brides; Courtship; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HELEN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights of a marriage are like an egypt in a woods Last Line: Needs / one Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Marriage HENDRICKJE STOFFELS, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: I have stolen the gesture of your arms Last Line: The door is open-step in and be my wife Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage HER BEDROOM WINDOW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Her bedroom window faces a brick wall. The wall is so close that when Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Marriage 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 HER HUSBAND GAVE HER A RING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For being so sinfully reckless Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Marriage HER SURE JOY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Image of tall bed. Grow weak. Groan. Her cliche. Her japanese robe Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HER SURE JOY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Image of tall bed. Grow weak. Groan. Her cliche. Her japanese robe Last Line: He yet fetches for her Subject(s): 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 HERMAN & HO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power to the all men all women all people . Solidarity against a muta Last Line: Be true. Up the aisle with you Subject(s): Marriage HERMOTIMUS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber? Last Line: Not in sleep, but death, their mistress lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The HEURISTICALLY SPEAKING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meant to be proud meant to be astonished & full of surprise at the Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HEURISTICALLY SPEAKING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meant to be proud meant to be astonished & full of surprise at the Last Line: What enemy? Say it, I do. I do what. Espouse Subject(s): Marriage HEX, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be fruitful Last Line: & breed %a little irony Subject(s): Marriage HIEROS GAMOS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: - & into inner sanctum peep Subject(s): Marriage 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: 1. A PARABLE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I longed for rest, and some one spoke me fair Last Line: And shivered there, an alien in that place. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 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 HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 5. FACE TO FACE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gazest in mine eyes and thine are wet Last Line: Thou wilt not? -- we will face her, -- I and thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIS STORY, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: He had gone to visit a once-famous pianist, now blind and living in Last Line: Days without food that he was weak and nearly fainting from hunger Subject(s): Gentility; Marriage; Touch (sense) HIS WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But it was right that she / looked back Last Line: She could taste the salt. Subject(s): Lot (bible); Marriage; Salt; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIS WIFE, TO ATLAS -- (OR ANY MAN OF AFFAIRS), by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of the world upon your back Last Line: Bearing the world—and you, too—on my heart! Subject(s): Atlas (mythology); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOKKU, by CHIYO NI Poem Source First Line: The persimmon, lo! Last Line: Marriage is even so! Alternate Author Name(s): Kaga No Chiyo; Chiyo-ni; Chiyojo Subject(s): Marriage HOLY MATRIMONY, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice that breath'd o'er eden Last Line: With christ's own bride they rise. Amen. Variant Title(s): Epithalamium Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology HOME AND WIFE, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where in this world, where strife and guile abound Last Line: And god, approving, smile on all thy ways. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOME 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 HOME MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin, she says, is the natural order Last Line: As she raises a glove full of roses. Subject(s): Marriage; Ruins; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating HOME MAINTENANCE, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day she left for good he was pissed at the plumbing Last Line: He'd ruined a perfectly good coupling. More than one Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Abandonment; Home; Marriage; Plumbers HOMECOMING, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I waited ten years in the husk Last Line: For he is dead who was sleeping %these ten accursed years Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage HONEYMOON, by SARAH MILLER Poem Source First Line: As he drops me off at a stranger's house, the night Last Line: Are always only white trash, and we're here, too Subject(s): Marriage HONEYMOON CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, by ANGELA KRUEGER Poem Text First Line: Two by two they enter the land of honeymoon Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HONEYMOON POSTCARD, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: Weather wonderful - cannot go out om daylight Last Line: Tons of love - donna and con Subject(s): Marriage HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 4. HELEN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you, helen, what should I give you? Last Line: Where it lay hidden and it proved kind Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Thomas, Helen (1877-1967) HOW GIRL WAS TOO RECKLESS OF GRAMMAR, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda maud mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin Last Line: Speech is silver and it never should be free! Subject(s): Bodies; Grammar; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOW IT HAPPENED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got to thinkin' of her - both her parunts dead and gone Last Line: So I got to thinkin' of her -- and -- it happened thataway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): So I Got To Thinkin' Of Her Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Thought; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking HOW PADDY GOT 'UNDER GOVERNMENT', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A place under government Last Line: "he married soon a scolding wife, / and thus his wish was granted" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives HOW TO MARRY A RICH MAN, by ELIZABETH J. CLARKE ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: The trick is disinterest, %to primp in a mirror Last Line: Watching the stars %surround the back of your dress Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Men; Wealth HOW! HEY! IT IS NON LES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I dar not seyn quan che seyght 'pes!' Subject(s): Anti-feminism; Marriage HUSBAND AND WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While other women's husbands ride Last Line: We'll trudge along and sweetly talk Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by 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 HUSBAND AND WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: H. Oh! With what woes am I oppressed! Last Line: W. You'll hardly laugh before you die. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh kiss me once before I go Last Line: "I would have kissed him now." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast Last Line: God! How men lie, when driven to the wall!) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBAND AND WIFE IN THE WOODS AT A NUDIST CAMP, N.J. 1963, by JENNIFER WHITE Poem Source First Line: I like to look at her imperfections Last Line: Like sweet meat, between awe and revulsion? Subject(s): Arbus, Diane (1923-1971); Marriage; Nudity; Photography And Photographers HUSBAND SPEAKS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My husband, brian, in his long career as reluctant Last Line: Make it clear that he currently has a wonderful boss! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HUSBAND, HUSBAND, CEASE YOUR STRIFE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights HUSBANDS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think no woman really knows Last Line: You lead him home to god at last. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HYMENEAL RETROSPECTIONS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O kate! My dear partner, through joy and through strife Last Line: "god bless you, dear, good-night!" Subject(s): Aging; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I AM ASHAMED - I HIDE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Baptized -- this day -- a bride Variant Title(s): Poem: 472; Poem: 70 Subject(s): Marriage; Shame 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 CHING: THE MARRYING MAIDEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The marrying maiden %undertakings bring misfortune Last Line: Nothing that acts to further Subject(s): Marriage I DO, I WILL, I HAVE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wise I am to have instructed the butler to instruct the first footman Last Line: Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and s Subject(s): Marriage I DON'T GO SHEARING NOW, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: So you're off to riverina, where the sun is shining clear Last Line: The rheumatism takes me, so I don't go shearing now. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Memory; Sheep; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I GO BACK TO MAY 1937, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges Subject(s): Parents; Marriage; Failure; Parenthood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I HOPE, MY ANNA, YOU'LL BELIEVE, by MARY AUSTEN Poem Source Last Line: Most bless'd to all eternity Subject(s): Marriage I MARRIED YOU, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Last Line: Oh my bride, my bride Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii 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 WAS BORN IN APRIL, by ERNESTINE GAROFALO First Line: I was born in april / the week the lilies came Subject(s): April; Birth; Marriage; Death IA'S SONG, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long before day I left my father's cottage Last Line: Softly, my arm holding his waist, will kiss him—ah, when? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Marriage; Waiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IAMBIC FEET CONSIDERED AS HONORABLE SCARS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see these little scars? That's where my wife Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Bears; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ICE KING SLEEPS WITH HIS BRIDE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: They lie in an embrace Last Line: That will contract %the world in pain Subject(s): Cold; Marriage; Winter IF, by H. C. DODGE Poem Text First Line: If a man could live a thousand years Last Line: The woman whom he gets. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF 'TIS LOVE TO WISH YOU NEAR, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: If this be loving—then I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love IF EVER THERE WAS ONE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She could tell he loved her. He wanted her there Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Gentility; Sex; Desire; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF I EVER MARRY, I'LL MARRY A MAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And some bachelors hold they are best as they are Subject(s): Marriage IF I PROPOSE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I propose a walk, a ride Last Line: If I propose. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a wife 'at taught school I would go Last Line: Enny way, what would you do? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Marriage; Suicide; Teaching & Teachers; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Educators; Professors; Journeys; Trips IMPERFECT WIFE, by MARY ELIZABETH PARKER Poem Source First Line: There were dogs at my wedding, a gray nose snuffling Last Line: Or milkweed, or pollen, or tears Subject(s): Marriage 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 ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 19. MAFIA WEDDING, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the long dinner and drinks, we hear Last Line: So let it stand: %a wedding, lights the confetti and horns the band Subject(s): Italy; Marriage IN FOR IT, by SOMERVILLE GIBNEY Poem Text First Line: I rose betimes, and donned a suit Last Line: That I was married. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN HONOR OF THAT HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCESS QUEEN ELIZABETH, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although great queen thou now in silence lie Last Line: If many worlds, as that fantastic framed, %in every one be her great glory found Variant Title(s): Queen Elizabet Subject(s): Children; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Home; Marriage; Memory; Puritans IN MAXIMUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woulds't thou be free? I think it not indeed Last Line: Then, maximus, then first shalt thou be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Rome, Italy; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN MEMORIAM: W.L.W., by PEARL RANDALL WASSON Poem Text First Line: I like to think of you as winging forth Last Line: And lead me onward through the darkening night. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ANN BRADSTREET, WHO DECEASED, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With troubled heart and trembling hand I write Last Line: Thou with thy savior art in endless bliss Variant Title(s): In Memory Of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet Who Deceased June 2 Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ELIZABETH .. WHO DECEASED 1665, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content Last Line: Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN, 23 JUNE, 1659, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had eight birds hatched in one nest Last Line: I happy am, if well with you. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN ST. JULIAN'S CHURCH, SHREWSBURY, FOR HENRY & ANNE CORSER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We man and wife %conjoyned for life Last Line: A double prize this grave doth finde, %if you are wise, keep it in minde Subject(s): Marriage IN THE EVENING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening of our days Last Line: In the evening of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Evening; Kisses; Marriage; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE FORTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would never say I feel like a million dollars, but I whistle Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Conduct Of Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE MONTH OF MAY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full 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 PARISH REGISTER AT MELVERLEY, SHROPSHIRE, 1760, by JOHN LEWIS Poem Source First Line: This morning I have put a tye %no man could put it faster Last Line: Tween matthew dodd, the man of god %and modest nellie foster Subject(s): Marriage IN THE TAXI TO THE MRI, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I try to concentrate on the weather. Everything Subject(s): Marriage; Illness; Anxiety; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE, IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn it, honey, neither one of us Last Line: With some kind of kick in the tail Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE, IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn it, honey, neither one of us Last Line: Life that is always surprising us, %as my father used to say, %with some kind of kick in the tail Subject(s): Marriage 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 TIME OF DANGER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now far be heavy dreams; you hateful sprites Last Line: Confirmed the judgements of their lord the king. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN TRUTH AND FLAVOR, by DUNCAN ZENOBIA SAFFIR Poem Source First Line: She cooked his favorite foods Last Line: Learns other shapes %of pasta Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Death; Food And Eating; Marriage IN TWOS, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in the world there hide Last Line: Then two at the heart of all! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives INDEED, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married a girl in the summer who slept on the beach Last Line: To silence, to you. It is a good one. Subject(s): Change; Marriage; Slavery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs INFANTICIDE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old man says, all the girl babies Last Line: They know too many ways to die Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Marriage; Women INTEGUMENT, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: She wears a long tea-gown of dim flesh-colored crepe Last Line: On the startled skin of a woman. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives INVESTMENT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over back where they speak of life as staying Last Line: But get some color and music out of life? Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage INVESTMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the old gombeen buys a young wife Last Line: They sniff his investment, like dogs their lice. Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Villages ISAAC AND MAE (LOS ANGELES, 1955), by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You are perfect in all ways, but one Last Line: The silence of the house, listening to the wind shriek once, then become calm Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Marriage ISLANDS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm as a good wife Last Line: Astonished lovers whispering, %what happens next? Subject(s): Arabs; Islands; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sea ISTHMIAN ODES: 8. THR MARRIAGE OF THETIS, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor were the courts divine Last Line: To crown a brave man dead with strains of heavenly fire. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IT IS A GERMAN HONEYMOON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are stalking humming birds Last Line: Found, you could not see it in %an electron microscope Subject(s): Germany; Marriage IUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ditch a king marry another king. Switch a ring marry another ring Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ditch a king marry another king. Switch a ring marry another ring Last Line: In a black rat plague Subject(s): Marriage 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 JANUARY AND MAY, OR THE MERCHANT'S TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There liv'd in lombardy, as author's write Last Line: To be so well deluded by their wives. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts JEZEBEL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song thy made for jezebel Last Line: By the wall of jezreel. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JIM'S WHIP, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, there it hangs upon the wall Last Line: And thinking of me still. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Whips; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOB'S WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She has to pity him after what happened Last Line: At the unrelenting sky Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine JOB'S WIFE, A TWENTIETH-CENTURY CASTING SCRIPT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job's wife, bereft, without Last Line: And it was not of god they spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOHN AND I, by MRS. JOHN MCELROY Poem Text First Line: We have jogged along together Last Line: John and I. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOHN ANDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John anderson, my jo, john, / when we were first acquent Last Line: John anderson, my jo. Subject(s): Aging; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sex; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 JOY AND SORROW MIX'D TOGETHER, by RICHARD CLIMSALL Poem Text First Line: Hang sorrow! Let's cast away care Last Line: That I shall be married to-morrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Climsell, Richard; Crimsell, Richard Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOYOUS MALINGERER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the happy husband? Why, indeed Last Line: As last it dawns upon his patient spouse %he's better at his desk than round the house Subject(s): Marriage 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 JUST STARTING OUT, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so you're married - keepin' house! Last Line: As two young folks just startin' out. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KALEIDOSCOPE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember sex before my husband Last Line: Crowded against our window, shivering. Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KALIGAT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bought big red wooden hoop bracelets about eight-inch diameter Last Line: With earthly/unearthly desire Subject(s): Marriage KATALIN'S CHILDREN, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: I'd have gladly given birth Last Line: Had I met the right one Subject(s): Children; Fathers And Sons; Marriage KATHARINE JOHNSTONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a may, and a weel-far'd may" Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships;marriage; Male-female Relations;weddings;husbands;wives KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 23. OF MARRIAGE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Flesh, considered as cognitive region, as opposed to undifferentiated Last Line: Through periods of waxing and weaning Subject(s): Language; Marriage; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KING ARTHUR, OR THE BRITISH WORTHY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had today a dozen billet-doux Last Line: Shall be my favourite gallant to-day. Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Marriage; Opera; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KING SOLOMON SINGS OF WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been lord and spouse to many women Last Line: Instead comes night -- and pharaoh's daughter. Selah. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KINSHIP'S TOUCH AWAY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Marriage KISSING AGAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing again, after a long drought of Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KRAKOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Gombrowicz, prosze, pana, jest horym Last Line: Too far. They didn't know how not to go too far Subject(s): Krakow, Poland; Language; Marriage 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 LADY ALASI AND LADY ISELDA, by CARENZA Poem Source Last Line: That when I leave he place me by your side Subject(s): Marriage; Troubadours LADY CARENZA OF THE LOVELY, GRACIOUS BODY, by ALAIS Poem Source Last Line: And it's too anguishing to be a wife Subject(s): Marriage; Troubadours LAMENT OF HSI-CHUN, by HSI-CHUN Poem Text First Line: My people have married me Last Line: And could fly to my old home! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Lament; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAODAMIA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sacrifice before the rising morn Last Line: A constant interchange of growth and blight! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAST DAY OF MARRIAGE, by ALISTAIR ELLIOT Poem Source First Line: You told my mother your old husband died Last Line: But how I wish that we could speak of this Subject(s): Marriage LAST LETTER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A proper interval, and then Subject(s): Divorce; Remarriage; Grief; Second Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness LAST WALK, by MICHAEL HOFMANN Poem Source First Line: The two of you, thirty-seven years married Last Line: And somewhere in it all, your tenderness %for a firefly Subject(s): Marriage LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAZARUS ET AL, by MICHAEL GERVASIO Poem Source First Line: Marriages I thought were dead come back Last Line: The same. It felt like nothing, to suddenly %feel everything again Subject(s): Marriage LAZY MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the cock crows Last Line: Rich men will help him to marry them Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage LE NOZZE, A ROMP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four sopranos one mezzo two tenors one baritone three bass sing into Last Line: Which builds into a blissful hymn. The curtain comes down on one %dysfunctional day Subject(s): Marriage LES SYLPHIDES, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life in a day: he took his girl to the ballet Last Line: The river had flowed away %and where were the white flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Erotic Love; Marriage LEST THOU FORGET IN THE YEARS BETWEEN, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hearing the infinite whisper there Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Life; Religion 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 LET'S WAIT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: What are you wearing Last Line: A government scholarship well invested Subject(s): Homosexuality; Marriage; Relationships LETTER 6: A MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice where possible all hares of march Last Line: One could fit this into the traditional theme Subject(s): Marriage LETTER TO MR. MOORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to her who long Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Marriage LIFE GOES ON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wade ross turned from vesta his wife to the window Last Line: On the beach-curve by a flood-tide spent and forgotten. Subject(s): Grief; Guilt; Life; Love; Marriage; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE IN A LOVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escape me? Never Last Line: Removed! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE IS MOTION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In oklahoma, / bonnie and josie Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 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 LILITH, by CATHLEEN CALBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first marriage for both of us Last Line: On the lips of the children of adam and eve Subject(s): Lilith; Marriage LINEAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass %ethos, an essay Last Line: It will not harm you Subject(s): Marriage LINES, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See they come, post haste from thanet Last Line: How does do your lady dear? Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage LINES (1), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves came up a long, wide aisle Last Line: Will they ever forget the low, white gate? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LINES FOR A HUSBAND, by FLORENCE HYNES WILLETTE Poem Source First Line: I look at you with deeper, clearer eyes Last Line: A girl's beloved moves godlike in her sight %a woman knows his shadows and his light Subject(s): Marriage LINES HE INSCRIBED ON A WINDOW AT QUEENSBURY ARMS, SCOTLAND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gods! Ye gave me a wife Last Line: To obey your will at any time, %I'm ready to resign her Subject(s): Marriage LINES ON A YOUNG WOMAN, WHO AFTER .. WRETCHED MARRIAGE .. WENT MAD, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, ye dear ones! For I am at rest Last Line: Immortal blooming in the realms above Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Despair; Marriage 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 DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 3. ONE IN PARTICULAR, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Showed promise. %it was called the death of unamuno Last Line: As you will tell no one in particular Subject(s): Art And Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Marriage; Memory; Paintings And Painters LITTLE LATE MARRIAGE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was never young with you Last Line: At least we seem to be going %in the same direction Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LIVING DAY BY DAY, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: I have no children and he has five Last Line: Her dream hair flying Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage; Mothers LIVING WITH A WIFE, SELS., by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage LLEWELLYN, PRINCE OF CAMBRIA; A WELSH BALLAD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Llewellyn stood as his palace door Last Line: "and I will yield to you." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hearts; Love; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged LOCAL SONG, by ZHAO YI Poem Source First Line: In months of spring, april and may Last Line: And without need of a go-between %they settle the marriage-bond? Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Marriage LONG TIME BACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now what have I to live for Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage LONGING FOR HEAVEN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As weary pilgrim now at rest Last Line: Then come, deare bridgrome, come away! Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness 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 NEVIL'S ADVICE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend,' quoth lord nevil, 'thou art young' Last Line: "and count thyself a happy man." Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Conduct Of Life; 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, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are who say the lover's heart Last Line: And mingle into one? Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: In a sudden rage a man kills his wife Last Line: He tells her, she refuses to be comforted Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Murder 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 2, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love as the secret doubling of bodies Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE AND A QUESTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger came to the door at eve Last Line: The bridegroom wished he knew. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE AND MARRIAGE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Still the question I must parry Last Line: If we're by compulsion blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE 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 FOR A HAND, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white, Subject(s): Marriage; Hands; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE IN A LIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Room after room / I hunt the house through Last Line: Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune! Subject(s): Houses; Mirrors; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE 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 IS FOR EVERMORE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had thought to bury my love too deep for tears Last Line: In the heart of a woman by love forsaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A good wife rose from her bed one morn Last Line: "tis not so sweet to labor for those we love, / it's not strange that maids will wed!" Subject(s): Home;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives LOVE SONG: I AND THOU, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full 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'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 LOVE, WHOSE MONTH WAS EVER MAY, by ULRICH VON LICHTENSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When with may the air is sweet Last Line: Love inconstant I forbear. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVERS' PLAY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: This morning my lady caught a mole Last Line: Astonished at the song Subject(s): Brides; Love - Beginnings; Marriage; Wedding Song LUCI FER-', by MARGARET AHO Poem Source Last Line: For %fire Subject(s): Fire; Marriage LUCY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, tho' thy song be sweet Last Line: A single life and liberty. Subject(s): Doubt; Marriage; Single People; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 21, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flutes and fiddles are sounding Last Line: And weeping many a tear. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAC'S HALF-CASTE, by E. S. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: Mac's half-caste wife was all the talk Last Line: And back to her old wild haunts go. Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Betrayal; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MADAME DELUXE'S INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL AND MARRIAGE GUIDE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Q. Why does my husband overheat? Last Line: 2. Start has not been touched Subject(s): Jokes; Marriage MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 1. ORDERING YOUR BRIDE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: To order, simply send check or credit card information Last Line: And best of all, no more cold shoulders Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 10. THE MARRIAGE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Simply peel silver backing off heavenly veil (see enclosed) and Last Line: Apply to bride's forehead. Garters and rings sold separately Subject(s): Jokes; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 2. RECEIVING YOUR BRIDE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Open box carefully. Do not use letter opener or knife to cut tape Last Line: For her to completely unfurl and walk without the assistance of a staff Subject(s): Jokes; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 3. ASKING FOR HER HAND, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Once you have developed a rapport with your new deluxe bride Last Line: Brides are bribe-resistant and not susceptible to reprimands Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 4. HOW TO ENDURE YOUR BRIDE TO YOU, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Tell her she looks lean as a sparerib Last Line: Use ribbed condoms for her pleasure Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 5. HOW TO TELL IF YOUR BRIDE IS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: It is recommended that the husband fill one cloth purse with barley seeds Last Line: She will bear. If she belches, she will never bear Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 6. WHAT TO DO IF YOUR BRIDE IS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: If your bride expects intercourse more than three times a week Last Line: Till there is a contemptuous look in her eye Subject(s): Jokes; Marriage; Sex MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 7. WHAT TO DO IF YOU SUSPECT YOUR, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: When your bride is asleep, remove her deluxe tongue Last Line: Odd means you have miscounted. Check again Subject(s): Happiness; Jokes; Marriage MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 8. WHAT TO DO IF YOU SUSPECT YOUR, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: If you suspect your bride is lying or cheating Last Line: Will stain hands and feet Subject(s): Cheating; Jokes; Marriage - Forced; Unfaithfulness MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 9. WHAT OTHER HUSBANDS HAVE SAID, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Even though nefertiti continually burns the tv dinners, she's %a real ham.' Last Line: Suit jackets. Just like ken.' Subject(s): Jokes; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MAGGIE AND PAUL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Better marry than burn,' saint paul said Last Line: Bad shoes are better than none Subject(s): Heaven; Marriage; Relationships MAGNOLIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mayor, in order to marry us, borrowed Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAHARAJA OF PATIALA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The palace opened sesame Last Line: Of khaki on my tongue: I said %my children Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage - Forced; Tradition MAIDEN NAME, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marrying left your maiden name disused Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAIDEN NAME, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marrying left your maiden name disused Last Line: Instead of losing shape and meaning less %with your depreciating luggage laden Subject(s): Marriage MAIL-ORDER GROOM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss %hand %some skull part Last Line: At a touch of %bride let's hear Subject(s): Marriage MAIRE BAN ASTOR (FAIR MARY, MY TREASURE), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In a valley far away Last Line: Of my maire bhan a stoir. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAKE WINE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Let the grapes grow in the backyard Last Line: Stand the upright %beautiful bottles in blood red rows Subject(s): Divorce; Drinks And Drinking; Grief; Marriage MAKING LOVE TO AN ORPHAN, by REBECCA MCCLANAHAN Poem Source First Line: I've heard of men who suddenly Last Line: No coin to spend, no language %for this difficult crossing Subject(s): Change; Marriage MAKING THE BED, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her regimen's inviolate. They squabble Last Line: Side smoothing the fold of sheet over blanket. Subject(s): Marriage; Tourists; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MALE GAZE MALE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yearning in his voice man to man man on man had remembered I Last Line: And after this man is gone try the different heartbreak tones of saigon Subject(s): Marriage 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 MAMMON MARRIAGE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The croak of a raven hoar! Last Line: On the dead-sea-shore. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Marriage; Ravens; Skulls; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAN AND WIFE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tamed by miltown, we lie on mother's bed Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Man And Wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAN AND WIFE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tamed by miltown, we lie on mother's bed Last Line: Breaks like the atlantic ocean on my head Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Man And Wif Subject(s): Marriage MAN AND WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are not lovers Last Line: It is a kind of beathing Subject(s): Marriage MAN AND WIFE, by SHIN SHALOM Poem Source First Line: I wed you not with overwhelming lyre Last Line: I guard your altar, keep the sacred flame Subject(s): Marriage MAN WHO LOST HIS WIFE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words get to him now. They leap out of Last Line: Everything means something else Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning MAN WITH A HAMMER, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dear was a mason Last Line: So natural and blithe lives %his spirit in me Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage 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 MARIAGE CAKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the ends of the earth, from the ends of the earth Last Line: That glory of glories - the bride's marriage cake Subject(s): Marriage MARIAGE DE CONVENANCE, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: Their nightblindness goes back Last Line: Deceiving death, take cover in shrubs Subject(s): Marriage MARIANSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Marianson, my beauteous dame" Subject(s): Anger;death;jealousy;marriage;unfaithfulness; "dead, The;weddings;husbands;wives;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy; MARIE MIGNOT, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss marie mignot was a nice little maid Last Line: But the mother of half-a-score little lagardies. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Greed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Avarice; Cupidity MARILINE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the wheel plied mariline Last Line: To the brow of mariline. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nature; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MARKS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband gives me an a Subject(s): Judgments; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARKS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband gives me an a Last Line: I pass. Wait 'til they learn %I'm dropping out Subject(s): Judgments; Marriage MARRIAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man may live thrice nestor's life Last Line: To keep me free from either ill Variant Title(s): Against Women Either Good Or Bad Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives MARRIAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That wife is best (as prudent men have found) Last Line: A fellow-worker faithful to the end Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a man has married a wife Last Line: Glued together Variant Title(s): "when A Man Has Married A Wife, He Finds Out Whether""; Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love springs as lightly from the human heart Last Line: By which, while yet on earth, we enter heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Parents are sinful now, for they must whisper Last Line: With guilty hope at every change of moon! Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE, by KATHARINE COLES Poem Source First Line: What's lost in love? What retrieved? It could be Last Line: A wink and a whisper. It is, sweet, not love, it could be Subject(s): Love; Marriage MARRIAGE, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Full 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 JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a soaring pine-tree Last Line: The creeper choked the pine. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going my way of old Last Line: Night after night. Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology MARRIAGE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm taking the ashes from the woodstove out Last Line: Softly she sang a bit then went upstairs Subject(s): 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 MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This institution, / perhaps one should say enterprise Last Line: "the hand in the breast-pocket." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE, by PATRIC PEPPER Poem Source First Line: You've poured into me Last Line: On the white table cloth, %vase and water one Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Vases MARRIAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met %under a shower Last Line: Of one sigh no %heavier than a feather Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look up; you pass Last Line: Eyes resting on you %in the interval of his concern Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What a great battle you and I have fought! Last Line: Good friend, shake hands Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women 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 (1), by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No things, my laches, are so close akin Last Line: If you look carefully, as man and woman. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE (2), by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marriage, if we look honestly at the truth Last Line: Is evil, but a necessary evil. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE A LA MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a foolish marriage vow Last Line: Twas pleasure first made in an oath. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE AND DEATH, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are nto dovetailed but opened to each other Last Line: And wonder if at last, each through each far dispersed, %we shall die easily who loved this dying fi Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE BED, by ANNIE BOUTELLE Poem Source First Line: We leave them Last Line: Filleted from him-nothing %left but flesh Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE COUNSEL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why marry ogre Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE COUNSELING, by CHRISTOPHER SCRIBNER Poem Source First Line: I'm working on my marriage Last Line: On bringing about changes in my spouse Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE DE CONVENANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So glad you are here for the wedding Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE DRESS, by CAROL HENRIE Poem Source First Line: Through my own teeth Last Line: The intricate lace of bridal snow %backlit by embers Subject(s): Marriage; Snow MARRIAGE GHAZAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hammering & drifting. Sea wrack. Cast upon & cast out Last Line: In an arc when she sat & they built a boat together. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE IN TWO MOODS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love that's loved from day to day Last Line: Love, too, shall be perfected. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE IS A LOVELY THING, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source Last Line: When he assures me he's all mine %and of sweetness makes me burst Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE IS A PAINFUL MATTER, by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: Great homer! Bard who'll live forever! Last Line: But marriage is a painful matter Subject(s): Marriage; Pain MARRIAGE IS LIKE A TREE, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: After the flood, its roots are dying in air Last Line: A root safe in the ground for ever Subject(s): Erotic Love; Marriage MARRIAGE NOCTURNE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stopped at a corner, near midnight, I watch Last Line: Home to my marriage, my safety, through this wounded %world that we cannot heal, that is our bride Subject(s): Marriage; Night 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 HELEN, by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN Poem Source First Line: Nineteen %--and fifteen Last Line: --blinking %and blank as paris Subject(s): 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 MARRIAGE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No word! No sound! But yet a solemn rite Last Line: Is the free breath of every happy soul. Subject(s): Deafness; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of his death he stopped work and turned to catherine Last Line: Coming to him, and would not be long now.' Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE PLAN, by MAY RICHSTONE Poem Source First Line: Your marriage can be the great success Last Line: Unless the house is on fire Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE POEM, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: Whose is it, this light? Last Line: Perfect night Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE SONG, by BETH GYLYS Poem Source First Line: Some have affairs. They never stop to think Last Line: We sigh and shake our heads. We have a drink Subject(s): Marriage; Singing And Singers MARRIAGE SONG, by WILLIAM THOMAS WALSH Poem Source First Line: You are more beautiful than light Last Line: No danger lurks on land or sea Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE SONG; WITH COMMENTARY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We begin with the osprey who cries, 'clang, clang!' Last Line: "snow-breasted, and transfixed in abstract love." Subject(s): Birds; China; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MARRIAGE UNEQUAL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that even in a heavenly marriage Last Line: Whilst cupid evermore remains the child. Subject(s): Cupid; Marriage; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE VERSE; CARLISLE, by SALATHIEL CROSS Poem Source First Line: Behind this hedge, in frosty weather Last Line: Let none but jove, who rules the thunder %then part this wench and rogue asunder Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE WAS A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come to be here Last Line: I was not a picture bride %I only was afraid Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Marriage MARRIAGE WIG, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: The mishnah says I blind you with my hair Last Line: I wear that nakedness for a disguise Subject(s): Marriage MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation Last Line: I humbly cast myself upon the city. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists; Stage Life MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how reformed and quiet we are grown Last Line: T' oblige the town, the city, and the court. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists MARRIAGE: A WORD TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep your marriage brimming Variant Title(s): Advice Subject(s): Life Change Events; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE: A WORD TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep your marriage brimming Last Line: Whenever you're right, shut up Variant Title(s): Advic Subject(s): Life Change Events; 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, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: Dining with him at home, she looked between Last Line: Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. Subject(s): Boredom; Emptiness; Marriage; Nothingness; Ennui; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids MARRIED BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't want it, you wanted it Subject(s): Marriage; Reality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 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 MARRY FOR LOVE, by SANDY RODGER Poem Text First Line: When I and my jenny thegither were tied Last Line: Wha married for love, and wha wrought for siller? Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRYING AGAIN, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Some days ago I remarried Last Line: To have found two women with natures like this! Subject(s): Marriage MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MARY LEE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails ye, bonnie mary lee? Last Line: Kin' jamie's faithfu' wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARY'S WEDDING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are to be married, mary Last Line: Brimming for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARZO PAZZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mad march, with the wind in his wings wide-spread Last Line: Mad march. Subject(s): April; March (month); Marriage; Roundels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG. ROSES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now hath flora robbed her bowers Last Line: So doth a bridegroom his bride's bed adorn. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATCHSTICK ROMANCE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: A husband beats Last Line: Setting off %an alarm they couldn't hear Subject(s): Marriage; Violence MATRIMONIAL DUET, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we first were man and wife Last Line: Let us say no more about it, mr. (mrs.) john prevot. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 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 MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 6. TO ANY WIFE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All right, I've done something I shouldn't Last Line: Just what all the fuss was about? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONY, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: The rancher's son had lost his heart Last Line: When she's tired...Or she's rested Subject(s): Cowboys; Marriage; Ranch Life; West (u.s.) MATRIMONY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Matrimony, --is it bliss Last Line: Matrimony to the wise. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONY, by JOHN WILLIAMS (1761-1818) Poem Text First Line: Tis an act of the priest to give patience a test Last Line: Where the ploughshares are hot, and your faith is not real. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAUDE CLARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the church she followed them Last Line: Me best of all, maude clare.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAUREEN ASHORE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely wife, who yestermorn didst bring Last Line: 08/12/09 Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Grief; Love; Marriage; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAX ERNST'S DAUGHTER SPILLS WINE DURING A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, by DEBORAH FLANAGAN Poem Source First Line: A candlelight dinner -- her lover flirts with the wine bottle Last Line: Makes love to measure, %sensitive to all colors but red Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships MAY JANET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up, stand up, thou may janet Last Line: And a gold flag overhead. Subject(s): Marriage; Sea; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean MEARY WEDDED, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The zun can zink, the stars mid rise Last Line: That wer a-woo'd an' wedded. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORIES OF MARRIAGE, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: We were looking for a basement to live in Last Line: For ever Subject(s): Marriage; Memory MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Last Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Last Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Subject(s): Love; Marriage MEN OUGHT TO LOVE MEN/(AND DO), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The gay lordy praise her name Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Marriage MEN OUGHT TO LOVE MEN/(AND DO), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The gay lordy praise her name Subject(s): Marriage 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 METABOLIC, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was %a force Last Line: Identity in %pollock's absence Subject(s): Marriage 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 MINDEN HOUSE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl Last Line: There's now noo mwore a fanny deäne. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housekeeping; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MINION WIFE, by NICHOLAS UDALL Poem Source First Line: Whoso to marry a minion wife Subject(s): Marriage MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl Last Line: Big as a horse Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine MIRRORS OF MAIN STREET, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: In our town, as everywhere Last Line: "main street's a ""one-way"" thoroughfare." Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MIS' SMITH, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day she hurried to get through Last Line: "I reckon." Subject(s): Desire; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MISMATCHMAKER, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: Is she a sex kitten Last Line: When I tie the knots Subject(s): Marriage MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MARRIAGE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn - a more auspicious one! Last Line: Of opulence end in breaking! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MISSING WIFE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: The poster at the truck stop Last Line: For all the pictures %he took of her Subject(s): Amnesia; Love - Complaints; Marriage MOCKINGBIRD SUITE: 3. JACK, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Could not convince his wife Last Line: A real surprise into the night Subject(s): Birds; Marriage 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 MODERN LOVE: 50, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus piteously love closed what he begat Last Line: To throw that faint thin line upon the shore! Variant Title(s): "thus Piteously Love Closed What He Begat""; Subject(s): Divorce; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOMENTOS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Last Line: In some more cheerful room. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Memory; Time; Grief; Marriage; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The MOON'S BED, THE BRIDE'S BED, by W. S. RENDRA Poem Source First Line: The moon's bed, the bride's bed Last Line: Eye to eye, hand in hand Subject(s): Marriage MOON-IN-HAND, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is set apart Last Line: The little %crown %you took Subject(s): Marriage MOONLIGHT NIGHT, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This evening in fu-chou my wife Last Line: And the moon shine on our dried tears Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China; Grief; Marriage MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morag of the glen was fey Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MORE MORES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the county of durham men with guns escort the bridal party to Last Line: Their brides. (stop) (help) (continue Subject(s): Marriage MORGENSTERN'S WOUND, by CLIFFORD METH Poem Source First Line: Morganstern's affair carved a wound in him Last Line: Like he was brilliant & funny %& whole Subject(s): Marriage; Sex MORNING AFTER, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: So loud it hurts Subject(s): Cold; Marriage; Skating And Skaters; Snow; Sports; Winter MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most like an arch - an entrance which upholds Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOTHER GRACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother-in-law is absolute tyrannical law is dietary law is the vittles on Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOTHER GRACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother-in-law is absolute tyrannical law is dietary law is the vittles on Last Line: Other forms of life Subject(s): Marriage MOTHERS AND HUSBANDS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes we had a half wit among us Last Line: Her body kindly, smiling-I would one day find in my husband Subject(s): Bodies; Marriage; Mothers MOUNTAIN BRIDE, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say revis found a flatrock Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MOVED TO DEEP DISTRESS, by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: Now is the season of splendor Last Line: Destroy my heart Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mourning MR. AND MRS. JACK SPRAT IN THE KITCHEN, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About half a box Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Women's Rights; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MRS. MCHUGH, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: He wrought in the field through the length av the day Last Line: An' him trimmin' the twist av a hedge! Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Marriage; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness MURDEROUS MAN & WIFE THINGS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep: violent %church: receptor blocked Last Line: Consumption: cells of a nutritive cycle of animal %eats plastic, metal etecetera Subject(s): Marriage MUSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He takes shelley from the shelf Last Line: While the wife snores in bed. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) MUTATIS MUTANDIS, by MARGARET VAN S. RICE Poem Text First Line: By care and strife Last Line: Down where (to say the least) it's summer. Subject(s): Books; Marriage; Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MUTUAL FOREBEARANCE NECESSARY TO ... THE MARRIED STATE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady thus addressed her spouse Last Line: Or soon expels him if it is. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY AIN WIFE, by ALEXANDER LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wadna gi'e my ain wife Last Line: For ony wife I see. Alternate Author Name(s): Laing Of Brechin, Alexander Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes Last Line: My human snake, my angeline! Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O soul of mine, look out and see Last Line: My bride -- my bride that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love - Marital; Marriage; Soul; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY BURIAL PLACE, by THOMAS DERMODY Poem Text First Line: Ah me! And must I like the tenant lie Last Line: He cries, 'though mute, there is a poet here!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY COTTAGE, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here have I found at last a home of peace Last Line: Thou sinless seraph, almost worthy thee! Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Marriage MY CRYSTAL BRIDE, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Out of the vision of night she has come Last Line: Shines in my holiest room. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; White (color); Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY DEAREST 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 FIRST WOMERN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my first womern Last Line: Was a year ago -- Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Spring; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY 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 GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MY HEART IS A LUTE, by ANNE LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that my heart is a lute, / whereon you have learn'd to play Last Line: Lest the strings should break, and the music be done. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne Subject(s): Lutes; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY HUSBAND CLEMENTE, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw clemente this morning but you didn't Last Line: I took clemente's big hand, to my mouth and to my hip. %it was this that he understood, and I knew I Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage MY HUSBAND DISCOVERS POETRY, by DIANE LOCKWARD Poem Source First Line: Because my husband would not read my poems Last Line: It was my husband paying tribute to my art Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets MY HUSBAND LOVES ME, by SHARON L. CHARDE Poem Source First Line: My husband loves me. He says Last Line: Mattress, the ghost of death is in our bed Subject(s): Beds; Death; Love; Marriage MY HUSBAND TAKES SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ME, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's like coal in your stocking Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Self; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY HUSBANDS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I hear my husbands marching Last Line: New york, may, 1924. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY LITTLE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little wife's a world too sweet Last Line: For such a man as I am! Subject(s): Courage;marriage;trojan War;women; Valor;bravery;weddings;husbands;wives MY LOVE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as all other women are Last Line: Sweet homes wherein to live and die. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; White, Maria; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY MAYDAY BRIDE, by VILHELM KRAG Poem Source First Line: My mayday bride Last Line: To bind on your brow today, my love Subject(s): Marriage MY MOTHER MADE ME MARRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: A stick and bad times Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage MY MOTHER, 1930, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, mom,' she wrote from tunis to fargo Last Line: Her secret refuge of remembrance. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips MY NEIGHBOR BUYS WHITE HYACINTHS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor drives her car at dawn Last Line: Because of life I miss. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY PARENTS' WAR, by TOM CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: She is draped in a simple sundress Last Line: Of prisoners, this armistice to which no side agrees Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage 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 SECOND MARRIAGE TO MY FIRST HUSBAND, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We married for acceptance: to stall the nagging Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY WIFE, by E. A. MANESS Poem Text First Line: My wife is still my sweetheart, dear Last Line: And name that path the love way route. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trusty, dusky, vivid, true Last Line: Gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): To My Wife Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology MY WIFE AND I, IN ONE ROMANTIC COT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of wife and I Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Marriage; Property; Wishes MY WIFE'S UPSTAIRS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MYSIE, AN AUL'-WARL', BUT OWER TRUE STORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wrocht her wark an' never lintit Last Line: Fause loons, beware! Sae en's my sang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NANCY LEE, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the wives as e'er you know Last Line: The sailor's wife his star shall be. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 37TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If e'er I take a wife, I will have one Last Line: Should only love, not dote on her perfection. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEIGHBORHOOD OF SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: In the neighborhood where I grew up, the men Last Line: They nod. Hurry. Hurry up Subject(s): Marriage; Neighbors NELL AND JOHN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nell, given o'er by the doctor, was dying Last Line: When you lost your white heifer, and I my brown mare! Subject(s): Death; Loss; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NELL BARNES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They lived apart for three long years Last Line: It was for love she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEW ADAMITES, by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: William blake's wife Last Line: Likewise: you'll find it true! Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Marriage 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 NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LA MUERTE, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: Few men would think on passing through our gate Last Line: All men must marry the holy other Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Marriage NEW POEMS: 8, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little bride & groom are Last Line: Nothing really exists Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Marriage NEW TALE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The bells rang for a king inevitably winning Last Line: Under black roofs lonely spinners. No gold. No bride. Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEWLYWEDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're married,' said eddie Last Line: Said, eddie, 'yeah, mebbe' Subject(s): Fisher, Eddie (b. 1928); Marriage; Reynolds, Debbie (b. 1932) NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOURS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I live, comme il faut Last Line: Their neighbours' faults and failings. Subject(s): London; Marriage; Neighbors; Peace; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NIGHT CALLS: HIS WIFE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the edge of sleep, in the wash of the covers Last Line: In the front seat of his car, and drew from her %that song of breath, that sigh he will always know Subject(s): Marriage NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you, o infant of my midnight thought! Last Line: Ah, well, some day you 'll be a married man. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Marriage; Parents; Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood NIGHTFALL, by HSIANG SSU Poem Source First Line: The night comes on Last Line: Glows a tiny flame %to guide a husband home Subject(s): Homecoming; Marriage; Night NIJINSKY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I danced very little because I was sad & sad because I thought that my Last Line: Not love me? I weep weep she weeps & weeps Subject(s): Marriage NIKOS AT 42, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's like yesterday Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NIKOS AT 42, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's like yesterday Last Line: And all those who are sore at me, we'll take the quick %embrace by the door Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage NIPPLE THAT DOES NOT ASK A SIGH, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many colors in a love drama sleeping. Mauve? Tangential? Last Line: Never hardened in prison paint Subject(s): Marriage NO MORE MARRIAGES, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, there ain't going to be no more marriages Last Line: They're never going to do that to me Subject(s): Marriage; Greeks 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 NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible); Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief Last Line: Makes you think (the furrow, the fruit) %I had to be told? Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible) NOCTURNE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothin' or everythin' it's got to be' Last Line: Nothin' to you, an' everythin' to me? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOT OURS THE VOWS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours the vows of such as plight Last Line: By faith and hope immortal. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOT THE COUNTING OF STRANGE HERBS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Or tanks rolling onto the streets Last Line: Who is recording this? Who else %is in charge Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Marriage NOTES FROM A MARRIAGE, by BILL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: You haven't seen your husband in days Last Line: Is loose and pale, as though you were %dissolving beneath it Subject(s): Marriage NOUNS OF THE HOUSE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do yes I do I promise to love & placate mister/mrs in times of trial Last Line: Stumble together about the stones about the nouns of the house Subject(s): Marriage NOVELS IN HAIKU: THREE: THE TRAGICOMEDY, by ALYCE MILLER Poem Source First Line: When she was a child, she refused to eat spinach. They called her %popeye Last Line: He left for a man. She planted herbs in the garden. Alone, she thrived Subject(s): Marriage NOVELS IN HAIKU: TWO: THE SATIRE, by ALYCE MILLER Poem Source First Line: They met for burgers. No snow fell, just smog shrouding. He drove Last Line: They made a movie. She betrayed him, crushed his pride. The %husband directed Subject(s): Marriage; Motion Pictures; Sex NOW MY FIRST WIFE NEVER DID COME OUT OF HER ROOM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your mama %I like to marry friends Subject(s): Marriage NOW YOU'RE MARRIED YOU MUST OBEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Marriage 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 NUPTIAL, by CLAUDIA KEELAN Poem Source First Line: I's not an altar Last Line: The bodies inside I Subject(s): Marriage; Self NUPTIAL SLEEP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length their long kiss severed with sweet smart Last Line: He woke, and wondered more: for there she lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NUPTIAL SONG, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sigh, heart, and break not; rest lark, and wake not Last Line: Dawn enters; my love wakens; here is day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NUPTIAL SUBSTANCE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: A bud, without a doubt Last Line: We are flooded with poppies Subject(s): Marriage NUPTIALS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When noon-time comes the whistle blows Last Line: Hauled away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives O LIFE I LOVE LIKE MY WIFE, by VIET PHU'O'NG Poem Source First Line: In the past we repeated the words 'perfect,' absolutely true,' so often Last Line: O this life, I love like my wife Subject(s): Marriage; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 15. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE ELEVENTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His late loss the wiveless higs in order Last Line: Hadst no heart I think, I know no liver. Subject(s): Murder; Loss; Marriage OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 22. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE FIFTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou tell'st me, barnzy, dawson hath a wife Last Line: Thine he hath, I grant; dawson hath a wife. Subject(s): Barnes, Barnabe (1569-1609); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, the queen of nymphs divine Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Marriage; Drinks & Drinking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wine ODE SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou magic lyre, whose fascinating sound Last Line: And warm our fainting souls with energy divine. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODE TO A BRIDEGROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rejoice, o bridegroom, in the wife of thy youth, thy comrade! Last Line: Blessed be thy coming in, blessed be thy going forth Subject(s): Marriage ODE: TO GARRICK, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no; the left - hand box in blue Last Line: Unvisited by ranby. Subject(s): Dramatists; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Marriage; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODES III, 10. TO LYCE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Were you married to a savage husband Last Line: Your threshold nor this rain from heaven splashing me Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Marriage ODYSSEY: MAN AND WIFE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now, eurynome had bath'd the king Last Line: So deare, to this wife, was her husband's sight Subject(s): Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses 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 OF THE NIGHT, LET THE BRIDEGROOM SING, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As day dawns bright by heaven's grace Last Line: Of the night, let the bridegroom sing Alternate Author Name(s): Statius Subject(s): Marriage OFFICE PARTY: DISTAFF VIEW, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is in the deep freeze Last Line: Stylized beyond reality. Subject(s): Facades; Marriage; Office Employees; Appearances; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Clerks OH DEAR HOW I LONG TO GET MARRIED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a damsel so blooming and gay Last Line: "I am tired, etc" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives OH 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 OH! THE MARRIAGE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The marriage, the marriage Last Line: Might envy my marriage to me. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OH, MY GOLDEN SLIPPERS AM LAID AWAY, by JAMES A. BLAND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Marriage; Shoes; Negroes; American Blacks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers OJISTOH, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ojistoh, I am she, the wife Last Line: ^1^ god, in the mohawk language. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Duplicity; Hate; Marriage; Native Americans - Women; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Squaws OLD AND NEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She went up the mountain to pluck wild herbs Last Line: I see that the new will not compare with the old Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives OLD BACHELOR BROTHER, by BRAD LEITHAUSER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here from his prominent but thankfully Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OLD BACHELOR BROTHER, by BRAD LEITHAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here from his prominent but thankfully Last Line: In all their passionate anonymity Subject(s): Marriage OLD COUPLE, by F. PRATT GREEN Poem Source First Line: The old couple in the brand-new bungalow Last Line: The way, on windy nights, linoleum lifts Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age OLD COUPLE, by GARRET ROSENBLATT Poem Source First Line: He made of poems paper boats Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age OLD POEM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I climbed the hill to pick underweed Last Line: Then put the plain silk by the gold, %the new bride cannot match the old Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage OLD SENRYU COLLECTIONS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bride %sips about a dewdrop Last Line: Of the butterfly wine Subject(s): Marriage OLD SLIPPERS, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: I had not thought until today Last Line: Why have I never told you so? Subject(s): Marriage; Mortality; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers OLD THINGS, by THOMAS T. BLEWETT Poem Text First Line: I love to smell old books Last Line: Fragments of dreams. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON A GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE, WHO DIED BOTH WITHIN A VERY FEW DAYS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy pair! Who had and have Last Line: The burial but the wedding be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON A KNEE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said once to get down on a lithesome knee & ask for a fecund Last Line: The cool modernist new york springtime. Mister & me. We were very gay then Subject(s): Knees; Marriage ON A SCOLD; EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here lies a woman, no man can deny it" Last Line: "you gently tread, for if she wake, she'll talk" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives ON A SPLEDUD MATCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was warned aginst the womern Last Line: And ef that won'e make a weddin', %w'y, they's nothin' else that can! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Marriage 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 Full 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 Full 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 BEING ADVISED TO MARRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sir, you are prudent, good and wise" Last Line: A man should think on 't - all his life Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives ON CAPT. FOOTE'S MARRIAGE WITH MISS PATTON, by JAMES LEIGH PERROT Poem Source First Line: Thro' the rough ways of life, with a pattern on your guard Last Line: Nor the foot find the pattern a clog Subject(s): Language; Marriage ON HER WEDDING DAY, by PAM BERNARD Poem Source First Line: In the heat of her childhood Last Line: Mid-back like the lip of a vase Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Marriage ON HER WEDDING DAY, by MONICA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: If I could wish for you one wish today Last Line: More beautiful than in your wedding dress. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON HIS ENGAGEMENT TO BE MARRIED, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Hark! The clock strikes and finishes the cycle Last Line: — u u — —'s. Subject(s): Farewell; Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON HIS 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 HIS WIFE, AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou need'st no tomb, my wife, for thou Last Line: Shall there be seen as in the book of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON 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 MARRIAGE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be married, but I'de have no wife Last Line: I would be married to a single life. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MARRIAGE, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy a thing were a wedding Last Line: Good faith, mr. Parson, excuse me from that! Variant Title(s): The Bachelor's Song: The Second Part Subject(s): Marriage; Mnemonics; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People ON MARRIAGE, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: Mary took out her cello Last Line: Before she knew me %and put her cello down Subject(s): Cellos; Marriage; Memory; Musical Instruments ON MARRIAGE IN BOOKS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty's dull husband, neighbourhood, they say Last Line: Made naught of by her kindred, mocked and shamed. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MARRIAGE OF LADY GWENDOLIN TALBOT WITH ELDEST SON - PRINCE BORGHESE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! To decorate thy marriage morn Last Line: With the bright growth of each italian hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Marriage; Rome, Italy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MY DEAR GRANDCHILD SIMON WHO DIED ... ONE MONTH AND ONE DAY OLD, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner came, but gone, and fall'n asleep Last Line: Among the blessed in endless joys remain. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness ON MY LATE DEAR WIFE, by JONATHAN RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Adieu, dear life! Here am I left alone Last Line: When I but see the shadow of her shade. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Marriage; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MY WEDDING DAY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abandon'd day, why dost thou now appear? Last Line: And be like me, that's by thy self no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Soul; Youth; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON SHARING A HUSBAND, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Screw the fate that makes you share a man Last Line: I think I would have lived alone. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Polygamy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON TAKING A WIFE, by FRANCOIS DE MAUCROIX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doubtless, my friend, much good I see Last Line: To ponder on it all my days. Subject(s): Marriage ON TAKING A WIFE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, come,' said tom's father, 'at your time of life' Last Line: "why, so it is, father, -- whose wife shall I take?" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Joke Versified;how Very Modern Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces Last Line: May best deserve our love. Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE HEART'S BEGINNING TO CLOUD THE MIND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I saw or thought I saw Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Marriage; Railroads; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains ON THE HEART'S BEGINNING TO CLOUD THE MIND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I saw or thought I saw Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Marriage; Railroads ON THE HEIGHTS, by INES V. SHAFFER Poem Text First Line: The pine trees tall Last Line: Your whole life through. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE MARRIAGE ACT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The fools that are wealthy are sure of a bride Last Line: And I shall be rich when I've you in my arms Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full 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 MARRIAGE OF MISS CAMILLA WALLOP & THE REV. WAKE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Camilla, good humoured, & merry, & small Last Line: Is now happy to jump at a wake Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage ON THE MARRIAGE OF THOMAS KILLIGREW & CECILIA CROFTS: MORNING STORMY, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such should this day be, so the sun should hide Last Line: Her pleasing shrieks, and fan thy panting joys. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE PROBLEM OF CHOOSING A WIFE, by PHOCYLIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the words of phokylides: the tribes of women Last Line: For a bright, balmy marriage, pray for a bee Alternate Author Name(s): Phokylides Subject(s): Marriage ON THE SEVENTH DAY, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: On the first day god said Last Line: Under that huge prairie sky Subject(s): Creation; God; Heaven; Marriage ON THE TWO DWARFS THAT WERE MARRIED AT COURT, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Full 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 ONE DAY COMING HOME: BALLAD (ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE), by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: When we were poor I rushed here and there Last Line: And if we meet in the world below, %will it be you or not? Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death; Marriage ONE MUST COOK WELL FOR ONE'S HUSBAND AND PIGS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Where are you going, stars Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Parents ONE NIGHT, WHEN I CERTAIN SHE WAS LEAVING ME, I INVENTED A MAN I, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source Last Line: She said. You couldn't have planned it better if you'd tried Subject(s): Marriage ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium ORPHAN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close ties both sides unless you are orphan-born. And even then & Last Line: Never banish the orphan. Take her in Subject(s): Marriage ORPHEUS, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full 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 OTHELLO THE MOOR, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Romances of late are so wretchedly poor Last Line: By breeding distrust between you and your wife! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OUR AMERICAN HUSBANDS WERE BORN, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into their studies, they study Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OUR PRINCIPAL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beat his wife. / we did not know it then Last Line: What he says. Subject(s): Marriage; News; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements OUT OF GRIMM: 1. CRONE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Because mirrors are duplicitous, she breaks them Last Line: At the unveiled image of ourselves Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Marriage OUT OF MY HUSBAND'S POCKETS, by KATHLEEN WAKEFIELD Poem Source First Line: Out of my husband's pockets I shake Last Line: Wood dust like rain on the floor of my house Subject(s): Marriage; Relationships OUTED FOR ETERNITY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Potency %is not Last Line: Take a vow Subject(s): Marriage OUTSIDE CYBERSPACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship %for beings Last Line: Praxitilean curve of the blue god's hips %outside cyberspace Subject(s): Marriage OVER THE ROSE-LEAVES, UNDER THE ROSE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you say you loved me then Last Line: Or make it bloom again? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 PAINTED WIVES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soot, house-dust, and tar didn't go far Last Line: She smiles through the brushstrokes at someone still there Subject(s): Marriage; Paintings And Painters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAINTED WIVES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soot, house-dust, and tar didn't go far Last Line: She smiles through the brushstrokes at someone still there Subject(s): Marriage; Paintings And Painters 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 PAIR'D, NOT MATCHED, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of wedded bliss Last Line: And that's the short and long of it! Subject(s): Marriage PARADOX: THAT IT IS BEST FOR A YOUNG MAID TO MARRY AN OLD MAN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one, why cannot you an old man love Last Line: Your elevation is for fifty-two. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 PARTY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wife of forty years coughed, then melted into a nymphet Last Line: Even when he shrieked, 'you couldn't make a decent %sandal, you!' it barely bothered me. I swear Subject(s): Fights; Marriage PASSING OF GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll introdooce a friend! He said Last Line: Was all they saw of 'gundagai'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Marriage; Sheep; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PATTY MORGAN THE MILKMAID'S STORY: 'LOOK AT THE CLOCK!', by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the clock!' quoth winifred pryce Last Line: Look at the clock!!!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Clocks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAUL'S WIFE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To drive paul out of any lumber camp Last Line: In any way the world knew how to speak in. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the fixed and settled rules Last Line: But, to my comfort, I'm prepared. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Physicians; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Doctors PEGGY'S WEDDING, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that you, peggy? My goodness me! Last Line: "and, misthriss! No more weddin's, aw good sakes! No, no more weddin's for me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PENELOPE IN DOUBT, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full 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 PENELOPE JOANNA, by BONNIE JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Once a year joanna's husband leaves her Last Line: Oh where has he gone, his poor wife cried, %my little hibiscus, my delicate boy-- Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Sea PENELOPE'S WEB: SONNET FROM ARIOSTO, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet content that quiets angry thought Last Line: But due obedience worketh this delight. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Obedience; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PEPPERING BELL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At burpham church, the only bell Last Line: A better belle is going! Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage PERFECT HUSBAND, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick Last Line: And helps you with your girdle when your hips stick Subject(s): Marriage; Mnemonics PERFECT UNION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Draw back the curtain, wife' he said Last Line: "there he shall live while I have life." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERFECT WOMAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She was a phantom of delight Last Line: With something of angelic light. Variant Title(s): "a Portrait;seen, Loved, Wedded;""she Was A Phantom Of Delight""; Subject(s): Death; Hutchinson, Mary; Love; Marriage; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERIMETERS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold morning the rested street stands up Last Line: There will be staring and drinks without taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERSPECTIVE, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: That tiny figure in the distance, an eighth of an inch tall Last Line: And free, and I've yet to speak to him of my dismay Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Walking PERSPECTIVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She photographed the library from rotten row Last Line: Like an unravelling honeymoon.' Subject(s): Cynicism; Honeymoons; Marriage; Photography And Photographers PHARMACOLOGY OF THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP, by MARVIN MALONE Poem Source First Line: It is taught that both efficacy and affinity are Last Line: Be sequestered and shielded from the sun Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Marriage; Relationships PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Procne said, it happened at my wedding Subject(s): Mythology; Marriage; Rape; Sisters; Revenge; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness Last Line: The nomads walk & walk. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHOBIA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because from the tour bus Last Line: With its frantic wings. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHONE CALL FROM ARIZONA, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wife tells me she's going to sleep Last Line: Like a tongue, like a spur, %or a gun barrel turning Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Sleep; Worry PILLAR OF FIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though %claimed %or spoken for Last Line: Genes don't go hog-wild in derision Subject(s): Fire; Marriage PLACE FOR A THIRD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to say to all those marriages! Last Line: When his time comes to die and settle down. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PLAIN WEDDING, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: I try to imagine my grandparents Last Line: Blemished, but with touch %upon touch, to be filled Subject(s): Grandparents; Marriage; Religion PLANTATION WEDDING, by MARGARET W. HOBSON Poem Text First Line: Down on the old plantation Last Line: "in dem two gals!" Subject(s): Marriage; Plantation Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POEM ABOUT MY WIFE, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: If I had any guts at all Last Line: Pistol out of the attic %and set matters right Subject(s): Marriage POEM IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS), by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose it hasn't been easy living with me either Last Line: Where they are going Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POEM IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS), by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose it hasn't been easy living with me either Last Line: About which they know nothing, to find out %where they are going Subject(s): Marriage POEMS FROM NA KEIKI O HAWAII: BEST WISHES, by BEATRICE KIRSTEN HOFGAARD Poem Text First Line: Dad didn't like the card they chose Last Line: "have many happy weddings, dear." Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POLITICS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Politics & Government; Marriage; Lust; Family Life; Mcgovern, George (1922-2012); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives POLLY HOPKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pretty, pretty polly hopkins, how do you do?" Last Line: "she. No, hang yourself. He oh! Cruel etc" Subject(s): Cruelty;love;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives POLLY PERKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am a broken - hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed" Last Line: It was a bow - legged conductor of a twopenny bus Subject(s): Grief;love;marriage; Sorrow;sadness;weddings;husbands;wives POLLY, SELECTION, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What servants hear and see Last Line: Feuds and battle. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POLLY: DUCAT'S SONG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that weds a beauty / soon will find her cloy Last Line: In a married life. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PONTIUS AND PONTIA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pontius (who loves, you know, a joke Last Line: Pray bring your brother wits to see 't. Subject(s): Hair; Jokes; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POOR WOMAN'S APPEAL TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY LEMAN GRIMSTONE Poem Source First Line: You took me, colin, when a girl, unto your home and heart Last Line: And as my heart can warm your heart, so may my mind your mind Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights PORK, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one warned me he'd long for loins and hocks Last Line: I look down at my fuzzy slippers and feel better. Uncle waldo hated pig's feet Subject(s): Marriage; Food & Eating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PORTRAIT OF MRS. W., by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go: bring them in, tom -- persons of worship coming, today Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Common Law Marriage; Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797); Women's Rights; Feminism PORTRAITS, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: When my friend don juan Last Line: The business of life. .... Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSSESSION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet loved a star Last Line: "I miss from earth a poet." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSTHUMOUS TALES: TALE 3. EQUAL MARRIAGE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are gay nymphs whom serious matrons blame Last Line: Both seeking -- catching both, and caught! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSTPONEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snowbound in woodland, a mournful word Last Line: "cheerily mating!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRAYER OF ANY HUSBAND, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, may there be no moment in her life Last Line: May not the two of us be parted long! Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Prayer; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRAYER TO ST. FRANCIS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now low rod : Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PREDATORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy family %in animal parts Last Line: Dressed damsels/cross-gendered animals/eye dilation/sweat secretion Subject(s): Marriage PRENUPTIAL, by KATHLEEN LYNCH Poem Source First Line: My daughter calls to urge me Last Line: And there will be fruit, mom. %edible fruit Subject(s): Growth; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Plants PRESENT PERFECT, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: I saw the cells on tv, as they swam Last Line: Slender but fortunate, built to last their day Subject(s): Aging; 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 PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Mothers; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism 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 PROPOSAL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The violet loves a sunny bank Last Line: Shall I wed thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courtship; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 PROS & CONS: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE, NANNERL MOZART, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: If only he were english! Last Line: Thirty-three; he's forty-eight; %he may die first Subject(s): Life; Marriage PROTHALAMION, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PROTHALAMION, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Last Line: Sweete themmes, runne softly, till I end my song. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Birds; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PROTHALAMION [II], by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overlapping accelerandos set against Last Line: Sounding a cappella in a choral round Subject(s): Marriage; Music & Musicians PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY, 1ST SERIES: THE MARRIAGE MARKET, by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself Last Line: Resignation sweeteneth the cup, but impatience dasheth it with vinegar. Subject(s): Marriage; Philosophy & Philosophers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 Subject(s): Marriage; Religion QUANTRAINS: CHURCH AND STATE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the wedding of the church and state! Last Line: With gold the other chokes the mouth of prayer. Subject(s): Marriage; Religious Discrimination; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Religious Conflict QUATRAIN: MERE HUSBAND, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: I'm the ways and means committee Last Line: The speaker of the house. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUATRAIN: PARTING WAYS, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: My wife and I had words Last Line: Go mine -- till noon. Subject(s): Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements QUATRAIN: SAFETY FIRST, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: Many a man Last Line: By the sweat of his frau. Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUEEN STANDS ALONE, by LINDA A. CRONIN Poem Source First Line: It began with such enthusiasm Last Line: Before we ever swear I do Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Sacrifices 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 QUIEN SABE?, by MINA SHAFER Poem Text First Line: A mexican couple / oblivious of the ... Crowd Last Line: For wife beating. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUITE BY CHANCE, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She flung the parlour window wide Last Line: Happen somewhere every day. Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAB MCLINTOCK'S PENNY WEDDIN', by KENNETH MCLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Ance on a time twa handsome youths Last Line: And ranks hersel' amang the wealthy. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAHEL TO VARNHAGEN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now you have read them all; or if not all Last Line: As that about me? ... Well, I believe you do. Subject(s): Levin, Rahel Robert; Marriage; Varnhagen Von Ense, Karl (1785-1858); Varhagen Von Ense, Mrs. Karl; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAHIM MULTANI: 4. A HUSBAND'S RETURN, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was expecting rain for a week no rain came Last Line: Held rahim's scent and nothing else Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness RAIN EFFECT, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bride and a groom sitting in an open buggy Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Rain; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAIN'S MARRIAGE, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: In an african folk tale, the rain Last Line: Though surely trouble would exist, as between rain %and a blacksmith's fire Subject(s): Marriage RE-STATEMENT OF ROMANCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full 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 READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Last Line: Become so again, for a while Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie. Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection RECEPTION, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: What had that wedding dress to do with white? Last Line: You pressed lips on teeth, dancing flesh to bone Subject(s): Marriage; Parties REFORMATION, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman, most wretched in his lot Last Line: You all to ruin bring, and every part confound.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Marriage; Reform & Reformers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REINCARNATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He slept as weary toilers do Last Line: (oh! The sad secrets of that orb of white.) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery REMBRANDT/PANTIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A couple if having a vitriolic lulu Last Line: To the power of x and delicate under the slow turn %of the equally unreadable stars Subject(s): Marriage; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Self-criticism RENUNCIATION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is full of the peal of bells Last Line: Of the lord's bow now breaks into flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Courtship; Flowers; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RENUNCIATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lifted rood thy days have hewn Last Line: For this, o love, for this! Subject(s): Divorce; Flowers; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE MARRIAGE OF THE OISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Here, where are grouped fin-d'oise, maurecourt, andresy, conflans Last Line: O poesy, o poesy, o poesy! . . . Subject(s): Death; Fate; Marriage; Dead, The; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RETABLO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The park bench is unoccupied Last Line: Tomorrow is christmas Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Homeless; Marriage; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RETURN THE BRIDEWEALTH, by OKOT P'BITEK Poem Source First Line: I go to my old father Last Line: Shillings one thousand four hundred only! Subject(s): Marriage RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag Last Line: He was all the world to her. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REUBEN BRIGHT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he was a butcher and thereby Last Line: In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house. Subject(s): Butchers; Death; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REUNITED LOVE, by RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that we were lovers still Last Line: "dull reason, that bedarkens love!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REVERIE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The landscape gleams in the soft moonlight Last Line: Are with us still at eventide. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Memory; Silence; Thought; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking RHUMBA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say 'bells' say 'buckskin leggings' say 'drumstick' say 'domestic' say Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RHUMBA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say 'bells' say 'buckskin leggings' say 'drumstick' say 'domestic' say Last Line: Show' say 'we go hand in hand.' Subject(s): Marriage RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: PARADOX, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you fear loneliness,' chekhov wrote, 'then marriage is not for %you,' Last Line: As a jazzman once said, it hurt me good Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Marriage; Solitude RILEY AND MABEL: FORTY-TWO YEARS, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: When it comes to music, she's nuts Last Line: Now children, don't you mind him Subject(s): Marriage RITE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brassy choir lament Last Line: To pronounce you %man & wife Subject(s): Marriage RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 15. TO THE ANGELS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is dread thanatos indeed! Last Line: Ye angels, grant matilda your protection! Subject(s): Angels; Life; Marriage; Tears; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon a mountain Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O rose the red and white lily Last Line: Gin she this sight did see! Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;marriage;roses; Weddings;husbands;wives 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 RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RURAL BLISS, by ANTHONY C. DEANE Poem Text First Line: The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city Last Line: As long as maud is there, you see, -- what matters all the rest? Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RUSH HOUR, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That tall, shapely blond standing at her husband's side Last Line: We will not talk to one another. Subject(s): Commuters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SAGE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Laurel foster never married Last Line: Of his knife blade, his pocket knife %and split his infinitives Subject(s): Churches; Marriage SAILORWIFE, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: Orchid and green and the may winds blowing Last Line: And the lonely years for allan and me. Subject(s): Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SANQU LYRIC, TO THE TUNE ZHE GUI LING, by HUANG E Poem Source First Line: I remember when we were together: shared pillow, same coverlet Last Line: So don't bring up again that old line about 'one quarter-hour being worth a thousand pieces of gold' Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Unfaithfulness SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kettle descants in a cosy drone Last Line: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 10. IN THE NUPTIAL CHAMBER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that mastering tune!' and up in the bed Last Line: And it's he I embrace while embracing you!' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But hear, if you stay, and the child be born Last Line: Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Love - Marital; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 4. IN THE ROOM OF THE BRIDE-ELECT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would it had been the man of our wish! Last Line: Good god - I must marry him I suppose!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 9. AT THE ALTAR-RAIL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom Last Line: "I had eaten the apple ere you were weaned.""'" Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCIENCE ANNALS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chinese fireworks on the lawn. Lotus opening in distress to love Last Line: Tigers will have the day with grrr with growl Subject(s): Marriage SCORN, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought of no wilder delicacy than the starling eggs she fed him Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCORN, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought of no wilder delicacy than the starling eggs she fed him Last Line: Each other, and they ate from each other's hands Subject(s): Marriage SCOTIA: A VISION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight's solemn peal had rung Last Line: Seemed wrapt in sadder, deeper gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 SECLUSION, CONCEALMENT & VEILING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridegroom in ancient sparta supped on the wedding night at Last Line: Accompanied by her sister dressed exactly like herself Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SECLUSION, CONCEALMENT & VEILING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridegroom in ancient sparta supped on the wedding night at Last Line: Is married she is accompanied by her sister dressed exactly like herself Subject(s): Marriage SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, exclude me not, nor be divided Last Line: Here's the way, bar not the door. Subject(s): Marriage SECOND MARRIAGE, by EMMA RIGBY COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: I did not think that love would come to me again Last Line: This calm fulfillment of my early dreams. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SECOND TIME AROUND, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're entangled with someone more famous than you Last Line: Comes tiptoeing into your study with a nice cup of coffee. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism SELVES THE SHELF OF BALLADS MADE FROM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I was a carpenter Last Line: Before you get married some pleasure to see Subject(s): Marriage SEMEN, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who remembers now in our millennial loneliness Last Line: Nijinsky who remains mad, and dead Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Unfaithfulness SENRYU (76), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When she wails Last Line: The husband gives in Subject(s): Marriage SENSUAL CHARMS OF THE THREE WIVES, by SHEN YUEH Poem Source First Line: The eldest wife wipes off boxes of jade Last Line: Lie quietly, love, just for a little while - %later tonight we'll do private things Subject(s): Marriage SEPARATE ROOMS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We an aging couple Last Line: Lying in separate beds %in separate rooms Subject(s): Aging; Marriage SEPARATION, by BESSE PATTERSON GEPHART Poem Text First Line: My son is gone Last Line: I would not mind. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Sons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEPTEMBER IN THE NORTH, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, do you remember Last Line: "when you and I are wed!" Subject(s): Marriage; September; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEQUITOR, by MARC KIPNISS Poem Source First Line: Only my wife lets me share her makeup Last Line: You've had it long enough Subject(s): Cosmetics; Marriage SEVEN BLESSINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O my friend, seven blessings have come to our house Last Line: Where together in love we both laugh as we talk Subject(s): Marriage SEVEN POEMS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 2, MARTHE AWAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I lay awake beside you Subject(s): Marriage SEVEN POEMS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 6. MARTHE GROWING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you? Who am I? Haunted Subject(s): Marriage SEVEN TIMES SIX [ - GIVING IN MARRIAGE], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To bear, to nurse, to rear Last Line: To love -- and then to lose. Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEXUAL MOTION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vision of a wifely woman one half of her face black the other half Last Line: It is she my wifely sorcerly ayami, a terrifying sexual motion Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEXUAL MOTION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vision of a wifely woman one half of her face black the other half Last Line: Ayami, a terrifying sexual motion Subject(s): Marriage SHADOWBOXING, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm telling my story to this couple who're over for dinner, they're friends, though not best friends Last Line: It takes some getting used to Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Theater & Theaters; Motor Vehicle Bureaus; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Stage Life SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What word to him hadst thou to tell Last Line: O stolen novice of saint clare? Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHARK PEOPLE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A divinity goes mute goes charioteering goes hidden underground Last Line: Like the incense you give a passing thought to Subject(s): Marriage SHE GETS UP AT DAWN LIKE BAKERS, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: My love is a slender woman with wide hips Last Line: And marry like father Subject(s): Marriage 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 SHE SAID YES, by GARY BLANKENBURG Poem Source First Line: There is someone else Last Line: So very small in the scheme of things Subject(s): Love; Marriage SHE WANTS THE RING LIKE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wants the ring like he wants the suit of scars / but Last Line: One thousand lucios with honeycomb eyebrows topaz bulletstraps? Subject(s): Marriage SHOCKING RAPE AND MURDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jane williams had a lover true Last Line: Cut off when in their prime Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;love;marriage;murder;rape;tears; Weddings;husbands;wives SHOOT IT, PASS IT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife whose hair is a brush fire Last Line: My wife with eyes that are the equal of water and air and earth and fire Subject(s): Marriage; Surrealism SHOPPING SPREE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose whose property property is whose whose in the origin origin Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHOPPING SPREE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose whose property property is whose whose in the origin origin Last Line: Frenzy frenzy. Custody custody is brutal brutal. (one voice) custody is brutal Subject(s): Marriage SHORT HISTORY OF MARRIAGE, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: A big man came in a box labeled Last Line: With the lights dimmed and the music low Subject(s): Marriage SHOW ME THE WAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The rose-apple is in fruit Last Line: Husband, show me the way Subject(s): Homesickness; Labor And Laborers; Marriage SIC A WIFE AS WILLIE HAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willie wastle dwalt on tweed Last Line: I wadna gie a button for her! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SILHOUETTE OF A HUSBAND, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies classify husbands Last Line: "I will not be home to dinner this evening." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SILVER WEDDING, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silver wedding! On some pensive ear Last Line: Shall gleam in glories of a deathless day. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SILVER WEDDING, by MRS. C. M. STOWE Poem Source First Line: Did you think I could forget it Subject(s): Marriage SILVERHANDS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bear destroys the dwarf & marries snow white Last Line: Fear of animal paws Subject(s): Marriage SIN FLOWER LAVENDER; IN MEMORY OF WIFE LE DO NINH, by NGUYEN HU'U LOAN Poem Source First Line: She had three brothers in the resistance army Last Line: My mother is far away and my wife gone Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Marriage SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 87, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ring upon her finger Last Line: At her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SINGING INSECTS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Semi - singing insects - boys catch in june Last Line: And as the caged insects sing. Subject(s): Insects; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SINGLE PHILOSOPHY, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Alla time you say, why don't you marry? Last Line: So eet ees not healthy thing for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Philosophy & Philosophers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SINK OR SWIM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship was wreck'd, and struggling with the ocean's angry tide Last Line: "but that secret, sink or swim, love, to the grave with me must go." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SIR ELIDUC; A LAY OF MARIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch ye the harp with tender hand Last Line: By man was never known! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marie De France (12th Century); Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SIR OLAVE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of the cathedral Last Line: "we plighted our vows of love tender." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Life; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA, MARRIAGE COUNSELOR, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Constancy is for the birds: 92 Last Line: Our world of joy and woe Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness SITUATION OF MAN AND WIFE, by KATE LUTZNER Poem Source First Line: There are things that fall from the sky' noted a hysterical woman Last Line: Wrapped her legs familiar around him 'you are my kind' she said %'you are just as sad' Subject(s): Marriage SLAVE MARRIAGE CEREMONY SUPPLEMENT, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: Dark an' stormy may come de wedder Last Line: She's now yo' own. Salute yo' bride Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;marriage;slavery; Negro Spirituals;weddings;husbands;wives;serfs SLEEVE OF CARE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guard %up %the sleeve Last Line: He does %& she? %she does rest Subject(s): Marriage SLEF-HELP, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What kind of delusion are you under? Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SLIPPING INTO BED, by MICHAEL HETTICH Poem Source First Line: I listen to my heartbeat, to my breath, to my wife's breathing beside Last Line: Emembers, as though you were going anywhere at all Subject(s): Breath; Marriage; Sleep SNOWCONE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: My wife's a natural blonde, but was Last Line: Have their own pace like the spiral %on a shell, and it's natural Subject(s): Marriage SO GLAD FOR SPREENG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Eef som'body com' to-day Last Line: "here ees com' da spreeng!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOFT SPOT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When they pat you on the back, darling Last Line: To stick in the knife Subject(s): Marriage; Politics SOLILOQUY OF TEURA, A BEAUTY ASKED TO WED PUNU, AN OLD CHIEF, by MARAU Poem Text First Line: The golden rays of the sky grow wider and wider Last Line: I would rather die than return it Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOLIPSISTIC, ANATOMICAL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said once an overt thing a relevant thing & the first time heard it Last Line: Incomplete tempestuous calm & strange of body trembling because of marriage Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOLIPSISTIC, ANATOMICAL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said once an overt thing a relevant thing & the first time heard it Last Line: Spun incomplete tempestuous calm & strange of body trembling because of marriage Subject(s): Marriage SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America 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 THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me no more where jove bestows Last Line: And in your fragrant bosom dies. Subject(s): Love; Marriag 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 (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 (4), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her; she was lovely Last Line: And hailed the coming day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah, how I wish I could sleep Last Line: But love, from sleeping, me doth keep Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Marriage; Seville, Spain SONG OF A MARRIAGEABLE GIRL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Will a man come for me? Last Line: Will let my father kill it Subject(s): Marriage SONG OF CHANG-KAN, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my hair just began to cover my forehead, Last Line: Ignore the long distance, even to long wind sands Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Youth 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 THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge. Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONG OF THE 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 OF THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far out, blue ocean! O'er thy wave Last Line: Shall tread earth by my side. Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean SONG OF THE WINTER WOMAN, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Husband %these poems are your rival Last Line: Is a woman poet permitted bigamy? Husband %answer me! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets 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 SONG: WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A', by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bride she is winsome and bonny Last Line: To be woo'd and married at a'! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: VARIATIONS, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: He says I am fair among fair women Last Line: For an hour of that which I have not. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever. Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SONNET, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The late gracie allen was a very lucid comedienne Subject(s): Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Burns, George (1896-1996); Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The SONNET FOR A MARRIAGE, by ANN LOUISE HAYES Poem Source First Line: If quiet after music is more still Subject(s): Marriage SONNET ON A WEDDING, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the glass escarpment of Last Line: Her fingers perch upon his nape like doves Subject(s): Marriage SONNET TO A FRIEND, ON HIS SECOND MARRIAGE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To hymen's shrine, where once thy vows were paid Last Line: On which love prompted you again to build. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 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: 5, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Those hours that with gentle work did frame Last Line: Lease but their show; their substance still lives sweet. Variant Title(s): Eternal Rhyme Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 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: BETROTHAL NIGHT, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through golden languors of low glimmering light Last Line: Set in the splendor of dark orient hair! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: HELOISE. 1. THE BRIDE, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come in my dreams, beloved! Though thou seem Last Line: When thou and I are equal, being one. Subject(s): Heloise (1098-1164); Marriage; Eloise; Eloisa; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: O HUSBAND!, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full 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 OF MANHOOD: 21. THE WORLD'S MARRIAGE MORN, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The world is young. - her eyes are girlish still Last Line: For other seasons, and another song. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SOREN KIERKEGAARD WRITES TO REGINE OLSEN ON THE DAY OF HER MARRIAGE..., by ANTHONY WALTON Poem Source First Line: I have been reading again the story of abraham Last Line: Darling, I would not have harmed you Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Marriage 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 SOUP, by ELISABETH STEVENS Poem Source First Line: The night of the day Last Line: Forming and breaking %forming and breaking Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Soup SOUR WINE, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: I met the wife who'd left me bed Last Line: And let it go at that. Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements 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 SOWRD-SWALLOWER PINES FOR HIS EX-WIFE, THE FIRE-EATER, by MICHAEL HUDSON Poem Source First Line: Our pinhead drools appreciation for the yokel's Last Line: For her lingering kerosene & chrome aftertaste Subject(s): Circus; Marriage SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 47, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I went and told your mother Last Line: Wedding there'll be Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage SPECIFICATION, by THELMA PHLEGAR Poem Text First Line: I'll never wed a woman Last Line: Her hands when the rain comes down. Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Rain; Wombats; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPEECHLESS; UPON THE MARRIAGE OF TWO DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their lips upon each other's lips are laid Last Line: In passion-lighted silence, 'tranced and sweet. Subject(s): Deafness; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPEL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As once one's flesh Last Line: Hetero world %hetero whirl Subject(s): Marriage SPIRITUAL CANTICLE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND CHRIST, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where hidest thou from me Last Line: The cavalry rode by %descending where they saw the waters lie Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPIRITUAL WEDDING, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: You are not with me in fleeting moments Last Line: And I love you as one loves a small and lifeless bird Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage 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 SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 11. ANOREXIA, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: My husband looked at other women and I Last Line: Please him and stop breathing altogether Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Death; Eating Disorders; Marriage SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 2. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Possession is the law on earth, 9/10ths Last Line: Dispossessed - so that I can be, by god Subject(s): Marriage; Violence SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 6. ADDICTION, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: I had one wife and one dependency Last Line: Back to her. One day it followed me home Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Marriage; Substance Abuse 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 SPRING LANDSCAPE, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Here sways the willow Last Line: Here where the sun has taken fecund earth to wife! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ST. MICHAEL'S CHAIR, AND WHO SAT THERE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily, merrily rung the bells Last Line: "in compliment to me." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Death; Freedom; Marriage; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STAG'S LEAP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the drawing on the label of our favorite red wine Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation STAGE WEDLOCK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farren, thalia's dear delight Last Line: The fleet will be their prison. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STEREO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Marriage marriage is like you say everything everything in stereo Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STEREO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marriage marriage is like you say everything everything in stereo Last Line: Marriage is sweeter sweeter than you think. Think Subject(s): Marriage STILL STEERING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the awkward stern she sat Last Line: Twas only simile! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STORY HAVING TO DO WITH WALT WHITMAN, by DAISY FRIED Poem Source First Line: A friend of mine used to be, and still is, but only Last Line: It. Oh, one more thing. I am the girl, this dancer, this wife Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) 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 STREET OF HUMAN BODIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For he must repair to his father-in-law, the meter-outer-of-support if Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives STREET OF HUMAN BODIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For he must repair to his father-in-law, the meter-outer-of-support if Last Line: & women 'doings.' ways? Subject(s): Marriage STRIKING BEAUTY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom, struck by her face, took and married a wife Last Line: He should ever be struck by her fist as well! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Marriage; Violence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SUCHLIKE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wealth of nations speech it goes without saying manifest destiny Last Line: Non-sufi wind. Dust moat in her maverick I told you so eye Subject(s): Marriage SUFFERING: A GAME, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Let's imagine an ordinary man Last Line: Into its enviable, incriminating silence Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Pain 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 SUNDAY RADIO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my husband's window I hear a woman Last Line: To how his voice breaks, then goes on with the song. Subject(s): Marriage; Radio; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SUNLIGHT, DARLING, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Makes a toy of night, / whose monstrous wedding Last Line: Are not betrayed. Subject(s): Marriage SURELY INCENSE AND MERCY WILL FOLLOW US ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: Everything is contained in this one hour - the long Last Line: Her triumph? Their skins blossom with love Subject(s): Change; Love; Marriage SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I realize as I / cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Past; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I realize as I %cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Love; Marriage; Past SWEET MAY MORN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet may morn; wake, drowsy girls! Last Line: A happy home—a husband kind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Marriage; May (month); Morning; Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TABLE TALK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To weave a culinary clue Last Line: Of these narcotic numbers. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; London; Marriage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TABLEAU VIVANT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the scene where hector, reluctant Last Line: Taller than he is. Subject(s): Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TAILOR, by PATRICIA GARFINKEL Poem Source First Line: Ulezalka, ulezalka, %your head, laced with cancerous Last Line: The final stitches in my wedding %dress the thread rose and floated %through the open window Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Marriage; Tailors TALE: 9. ARABELLA, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a fair town where doctor rack was guide Last Line: To make the sinner sure, and then t' attack the sin.' Subject(s): Duplicity; Marriage; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TELL A STORY ABOUT A THRESHOLD HERE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The country is calling, marry uncle sam. Rudimentary fear. War Last Line: Related. I gather I hunt I gather I hunt. I hunted. Never for a husband Subject(s): Fear; Marriage TELL HER SO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Amid the cares of married strife Last Line: She is worth her weight in gold / tell her so! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives TELL US, WHAT IS IT LIKE?, by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Is a wedding the purchase of a ticket, is a marriage the train? Last Line: Leaves your body and fills your lover %with molecules of you Subject(s): Love; Marriage TEN SONGS: 4, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carry her over the water Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TEN SONGS: 4, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carry her over the water Last Line: And the horses drawing your carriage %sing agreeably, agreeably, agreeably of love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Marriage THANKS FOR THE WEDDING PRESENT, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She bears your gift as one safe to return Last Line: And of the maritime empires as a flower Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Marriage THAT'S HER PRIVILEGE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all human beings a wife is the queerest Last Line: To prove that her husband's the smartest of men! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning; Cars; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Last Line: Without a car, I cannot find another woman. That's the sum of it Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning THE ABDUCTION, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full 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 AFFINITY, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have to thank god I'm a woman Last Line: Is free to be very hungry, very lonely. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Sexism; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 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 10. PRELUDE. MARRIAGE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven none marry. Grant the most Last Line: Where now and then are no more twain! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 11. THE WEDDING, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life smitten with a feverish chill Last Line: Swathed by the red breath of the sun Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 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 ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 5. THE QUEEN'S ROOM, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing happier than the days Last Line: Blossom'd the laughing bridal rose. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANNIVERSARY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course we failed, by succeeding Last Line: In nothing. Don't leave me, don't leave me Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 ARK UPON HIS SHOULDERS, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband did all this. - we used to live Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain Last Line: Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE BACHELOR'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pipe is lit, my grog is mix'd Last Line: What d'ye think of that, my dog? Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BALLAD OF MEAN MARKS, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Text First Line: Marks was the county's meanest man Last Line: "my poor, proud man. . ." Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BALLAD OF THE MADE MAID, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is rich and talented Subject(s): Women's Rights; Marriage; Feminism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BAMBOO, THE PLUM AND THE PINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere in this land they must be found Last Line: To the new year three-in-one, the bamboo, the plum and the pine. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Worship; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BANKS OF THE LEE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the banks of the lee, the banks of the lee Last Line: And 'tis little I'd sigh for the banks of the lee? Subject(s): Lee (river), Ireland; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BATCHELOR OF SIXTY-TWO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some say to ninety-five they live Last Line: "sing lackadaisy, etc" Subject(s): Life;marriage;single People; Weddings;husbands;wives;bachelors;unmarried People THE BED, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in beauty like a lake Subject(s): Marriage; Love - Erotic; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BEGGAR, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beggar through the world so wide Last Line: Shall rise a welcome guest. Subject(s): Longing; Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THE BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE BEST OF HUSBANDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh I have a man as good as can be Last Line: And who could wish for a better than he? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE BEST, THE MOST, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet one young woman lives with me Last Line: And failing, falling, ruined, rich. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BETROTHAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, come, my lad, or go, my lad Last Line: There's few enough as is. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BITER BIT, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair Last Line: Draw me a pot of beer, mother, and, mother, draw it mild! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Love - Materialism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BLASPHEMER'S WARNING; A LAY OF ST. ROMWOLD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In kent, we are told Last Line: Or -- what sometimes occurs -- run away with a saint! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Blasphemy; Marriage; Curses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BLISSFUL DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day returns, my bosom burns Last Line: It breaks my bliss, -- it breaks my heart. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BLUNDER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The girls in my vicinity Last Line: That was the fatal blunder. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDAL MORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The maidens came Last Line: "the lily, the rose, the rose I lay" Variant Title(s): The Lily And The Rose Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE BRIDAL OF MALAHIDE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The joy-bells are ringing Last Line: We live but to die!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDAL VEIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're married, they say, and you think Last Line: Of bliss that can never be written or spoken. Subject(s): Brides; Love; Marriage; Peace; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to be a bride Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Women; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE AND GROOM, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: True as magnet to the pole Last Line: A happy groom and bride. Subject(s): Churches; Happiness; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE'S COMPLAINT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the face of my loved naked Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE BRIDE-CAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day my julia thou must make Last Line: And for the bride-cake ther'l be spice. Subject(s): Cakes; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDEGROOM OF CANA, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veil thine eyes, o beloved, my spouse Last Line: "jesus bar-joseph, the carpenter's son." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years ago, dear love, / and we were strangers; in a distant land Last Line: With souls, not bound, but blended evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Time; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDESMAID, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O bridesmaid, ere the happy knot was tied Last Line: O happy bridesmaid, make a happy bride!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BROKEN HEART, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639) Poem Text First Line: Our scene is sparta. He whose best of art Last Line: The broken heart may be pieced-up again. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged THE CARLE OF KELLYBURN BRAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a carle in kellyburn braes Last Line: And the thyme it is wither'd, and rue is in prime. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CATCHING BALLET OF THE WEDDING CLOTHES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman's coming Last Line: Came thither again. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CAVALIER HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "tush! Let them keep him, if they can" Last Line: And 'twill dissolve the parliament Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE CHOICE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny is a butterfly Last Line: When jenny is my wife! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHURCH AND THE WEDDING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll restore this old church for our marriage Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764) Poem Text First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "quoth john to joan, will thou have me" Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A comical lass I went to woo Last Line: Who came in and politely kicked me out Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;faces;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE COLLIER'S WEDDING, SELECTION, by EDWARD CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: At last the beef appears in sight Last Line: So, curtseying, mumbled up his kiss. Subject(s): Brides; Dancing & Dancers; Food & Eating; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CONFORMERS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes; we'll wed, my little fay Last Line: Sound parish views.' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears Last Line: "to one long penitence." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER'S STORY), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little fogs were gathered in every hollow Last Line: And carried 'em there in an after year. Subject(s): Fiddles; Marriage; Musical Instruments; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE COWBOY AND THE MAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Funny how it come about! Subject(s): Courtship;cowboys;marriage;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Weddings;husbands;wives;southwest;pacific States THE CRISIS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Let me say (in anger) that since the day we were married Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 CRUEL BROTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three ladies played at the ba' Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters;family Life;marriage;murder; Relatives;weddings;husbands;wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DANCE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full 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 DANGER OF DISCONTENT, by E.-G. BAYFIELD Poem Text First Line: Oh, soon may that holiday period come Last Line: "than that which is caus'd by the man of your heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Cooper, Laura+(1) Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Parents; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEAD WIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I see her in a saintly guise Last Line: I need so much -- so much! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like two lonely swans Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Dancing & Dancers THE DELAYING BRIDE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why so slowly do you move? Last Line: T'ave your blushes seen by day. Subject(s): Marriage; Procrastination; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DESERTED WIFE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes not. - I have watched the moon go down Last Line: How injured, and how faithful I had been. Subject(s): Abandonment; Marriage; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEUK'S DANG O'ER MY DADDIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bairns gat out wi' an unco shout Last Line: And oh, I find it sairly, o! Subject(s): Seduction; Marriage THE DEVONSHIRE LANE, by JOHN MARRIOTT Poem Text First Line: In a devonshire lane as I trotted along Last Line: Though marriage is just like a devonshire lane. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HYMEN AND CUPID - MARRIAGE AND LOVE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain does hymen with religious vows Last Line: But haughty love comes only when he will. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Love' Marriage THE DOLEFUL LAY OF THE WIFE OF ASAN AGA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is yon so white beside the greenwood? Last Line: As she saw her children turning from her. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DOOR CLICKS. HE RETURNS TO ME', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it measureless pain? Subject(s): Veterans; Homecoming; Marriage; Fathers & Sons THE DREAM RANGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, young, I slept in a cold bed Last Line: To hell! With life on the dream range! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Money; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O jeanie, my woman! Whaur is't ye are gaun Last Line: Sae ye're greetin', an' toilin', an fechtin' awa' Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Marriage; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slowly glide the hours by, the minutes hours seem Last Line: And shall I always -- always be a drunkard's wretched wife? Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Marriage; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DUKE OF GUELDRES' WEDDING (1405), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen and all her waiting maids Last Line: As blithe and bonny a bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DYING MAN TO HIS BETROTHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One word - 'tis all I ask of thee Last Line: O christ, who art the gate of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE EARL'S RETURN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ragged and tall stood the castle wall Last Line: Under the boughs of this bare black thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The THE EGGS AND THE HORSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John dobbins was so captivated Last Line: I thank him for the lesson he has taught me Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 2, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, it is my wedding-morn Last Line: For I watched the night away. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ENTERTAINMENT: OR PORCH-VERSE AT THE MARRIAGE ..., by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weelcome! But yet no entrance, till we blesse Last Line: Which spent, one death, bring to ye both one grave. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE EQUIVOCATION, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An abbot rich (whose taste was good) Last Line: First mend the faults they find in others. Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ESPOUSAL; A SOBER ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shadow of a beaver hat Last Line: So tabitha took earnest of a spouse. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ETONIAN; THE BACHELOR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder that your ancient friend / has come so near his journey's end Last Line: And find some cause to envy mine! Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE FAIREST THING IN MORTAL EYES, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To make my lady's obsequies Last Line: The fairest thing in mortal eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Death - Childbirth THE FAIRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither my sparrows Last Line: Of the marriage ring Variant Title(s): The Marriage Ring Subject(s): Bible; Fairies; Marriage; Mythology; Elves; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FAMILY MAN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once was a jolly young beau Last Line: But then -- I'm a family man! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S BRIDE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three summers since I chose a maid Last Line: The brown of her -- her eyes, her hair, her hair! Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband is a good, hardworking man Last Line: "and john's come in. ""yes, I'll have supper soon!" Subject(s): Family Life; Freedom; Love - Marital; Marriage; Relatives; Liberty; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE AND THE GASCON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At neufchatel, in france, where they prepare Last Line: The bottle-nose belonging to the judge! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Judges; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIELD OF GILBOA, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning looked forth from his throne Last Line: Thy flocks to decay and thy forests to wither. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRE OF LOVE, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1711-1769) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire of love in youthful blood Last Line: Yet is the heat as strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 2d Duke Of Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRESIDE, 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 FIRESIDE CHAIRS; HUSBAND TO WIFE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daylight gains upon the night Last Line: And look'd on, as I look'd on you. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This brief effusion I indite Last Line: To charm life's dreary day! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FLAME-BRIDE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the red hearth of time Last Line: Still slumbering till he wake her! Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FLAMING CIRCLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table Last Line: This pain of possession that frees and encircles us both? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In secret place where once I stood Last Line: Take thou the world, and all that will. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're my friend Last Line: Amen! Subject(s): Marriage; Escapes; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Fugitives THE FLITCH OF DUNMOW, by JAMES CARNEGIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come micky and molly and dainty dolly Last Line: "fetters a heart and sets it free." Alternate Author Name(s): Southesk, 6th Earl Of Subject(s): Marriage; Customs, Social 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 FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another four I've left yet to bring on Last Line: Shall at your feet for pardon cry. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Seasons; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FROG AND THE MOUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A frog went walking one fine day Last Line: "if you want to find out, go look for yourself / a-hmmm, a-hmmm" Subject(s): Love - Marital;marriage; Wedded Love;marriage - Love;weddings;husbands;wives THE GLEN DON THERE, by JOHN HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' blythe an' merry tinkle, the bit bonnie wimplin' burn Last Line: To bonnie winsome jessie, in the glen doon there! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you give no hint that night Last Line: Not even I - would undo me so! Subject(s): Death; Gifford, Emma Lavinia; Life Change Events; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by DAVID GRAY (1836-1888) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, whose patient pilgrim feet Last Line: To-night shall turn to wine. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 GOSPEL WOMEN: 10. PILATE'S WIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why came in dreams the low-born man Last Line: As poor a verity. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Pilate, Pontius; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GREAT SEDUCER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who looks too long from his window Last Line: To disillusionment! Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GROOMSMAN TO HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every wedding, says the proverb Last Line: What if't were—both mine and thine? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GUDEWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gudewife - she that is tae be Last Line: Luve's tapmaist-bubblin' ecstasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A week ago; only a little week Last Line: He sees me, he is coming; my own love! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HAPPY HUSBAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, oft methinks, the while with thee Last Line: That seems, yet cannot greater be! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HAPPY LITTLE WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, gudhand, have you sold the cow Last Line: To be all in all through life. Subject(s): Marriage; Humor; Farm Life THE HAPPY SWAIN, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have ye seen the morning sky Last Line: To my vows, for ever mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 HENPECK'D HUSBAND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in my life Last Line: I'd kiss her maids, and kick the perverse bitch. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HERD'S WIFE, by JOHN VEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a lone herd's house, far up I' the hope Last Line: He breath'd, and bless'd her name! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: HOUSE FEAR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always - I tell you this they learned Last Line: Until they had lit the lamp inside. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: 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 HILL WIFE: THE IMPULSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was too lonely for her there Last Line: Besides the grave. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had no saying dark enough Last Line: Of what the tree might do. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: THE SMILE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't like the way he went away Last Line: He's watching from the woods as like as not. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOLLY TREE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The corn was warm in the ground, the fences were mended and made Last Line: "he shall master be in the house, and mistress shall be his wife!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holly; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 15. THE BIRTH-BOND, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not noted, in some family Last Line: Known for my soul's birth-partner well enough! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 HUSBAND'S PETITION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, my heart's darling Last Line: Is all the boon I ask! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HUSBANDS REPLY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five minutes, all I have to spare Last Line: At eight o'clock,—and then—oh then! Subject(s): Letters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE IDEAL HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've lived for forty years, dear wife Last Line: That you are wrong and I am right. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE IDEAL WIFE (WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF NATIONALITY), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wife whose love has vanquished doubt and fear Last Line: Revealing, each to each, truth, beauty, good. Subject(s): Ethnic Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE INSATIABLE PRIEST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean Last Line: He can be content with two thousand a year. Subject(s): Birth; Clergy; Death; Marriage; Child Birth; Midwifery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE INVESTMENT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over back where they speak of life as staying Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE JOLLY MILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jolly miller lived on the river dee Last Line: About four hunderd mile! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fleas; Laughter; Marriage; Mills And Millers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE JOYS OF MARRIAGE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How uneasy is his life Last Line: Who is marri'd to a wife. Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY; DOMESTIC LEGEND OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady jane was tall and slim Last Line: Have them spitch-cock'd -- or stew'd -- they're too oily when fried! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Drowning; Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE KNOWING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full 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 LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She bears no crown upon her brow Last Line: Nature and freedom taught her. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Marriage; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LASS OF ECCLEFECHAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gat ye me, o gat ye me Last Line: Wad airt me to my treasure. Subject(s): Marriage; Revenge THE LAST GIUSTINIANI, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wife, wife, wife! As if the sacred name Last Line: "into a new-found word, I called you ""wife!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LAY OF ST. ODILLE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Odille was a maid of a dignified race Last Line: Can produce enough saints to save every odille. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Saints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LEADY'S TOWER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' then we went along the gleades Last Line: Built up the tower upon the knowl.' Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage; Memory; Monuments; Story-telling; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LEISURE CLASSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a little beggar maid Last Line: "and, pleasing heaven, never will" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;household Employees;marriage;social Classes; Servants;domestics;maids;weddings;husbands;wives;caste THE LETTER, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not expect you Subject(s): Marriage; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LETTER L, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat on grassy slopes that meet Last Line: "the letter l." Subject(s): Beauty; God; Jealousy; Letters; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LITTLE BIRD THAT TOLD THE SECRET, by MARY N. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: So I've heard your secret, mabel Last Line: And live beside the mill. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mary N.; Bleeker, Mary N. Subject(s): Marriage; Secrets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LONG WHITE SEAM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came round the harbor buoy Last Line: Sewing the long white seam. Subject(s): Harbors; Light; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (1), by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live with thy bridegroom happy, sacred bride Last Line: How blest is he that is for love envied! Subject(s): Envy; Freedom; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE MASQUERS SECOND DANCE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe again, while we with music Last Line: Taken or left, none discontent must be. Subject(s): Marriage THE LOVELY HUSBAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh a lovely husband he was known, he loved his wife and Last Line: In this love-ly man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LOWER WORLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a time poor pluto sigh'd thus Last Line: "a faded life, love lost for ever!" Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARINE (POITEVIN), by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bold marine comes back from war Last Line: All so kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death; Remarriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Second Marriage THE MARRIAGE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm taking the ashes from the woodstove out Last Line: Softly she sang a bit then went upstairs Subject(s): Marriage THE MARRIAGE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incarnate for our marriage you appeared Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARRIAGE NOCTURNE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stopped at a corner, near midnight, I watch Last Line: World that we cannot heal, that is our bride Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That heat! / that terrible heat Last Line: Unfused / and unfusing Subject(s): Marriage; Man-woman Relationships; Love – Complaints; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARRIAGE VOW, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The altar, 'tis of death! For there are laid Last Line: For in the grave is rest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MASTER SPEED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full 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 MAUSOLEUM, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monument of love! More glorious love Last Line: Twas artemisia by her husband's tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Graves; Love; Marriage; Monuments; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MEASURE, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I continue in my gbariye. Subject(s): Life Choices; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MESSENGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose up in the early dawn Last Line: "the fight itself was not so hard." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MIGHT OF LOVE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is work, good man, for you today! Last Line: Laid him dead at her feet. Subject(s): Shipwrecks; Death; Love; Marriage THE MILLER, by JOHN CLERK Poem Text First Line: O merry may the maid be Last Line: When a miller lives so happy? Alternate Author Name(s): Clerk Of Penicuik, John Subject(s): Marriage; Mills & Millers; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE MINISTER'S WIFE, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is a peaceful town Last Line: For rebellion? Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MISSING BRIDE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wedded girl exclaimed, 'I'll hide, I'll hide!' Last Line: The mystery of that fatal 'hide and seek'. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MIST, by IDA SHERWIN OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Yonder from the mountain side Last Line: If this were all—the mist and I. Subject(s): Brides; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MODERN VERSION (TO A LUCY STONER), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay by yourself and be my love! Last Line: Stay by yourself and be my bride! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 MOURNING GARMENT: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SHEPHERD AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was near a thicky shade Last Line: Was not more in thessaly. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MOURNING-GARMENT: THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What is love! It is a pretty thing Last Line: What lady would not love a shepherd swain? Variant Title(s): Love In Arcady;the Shepherd And The King;happy As A Shepherd Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark the halls, and cold the feast Last Line: An unwitting triumph find. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEWLY WEDDED, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rite is duly done Last Line: Hand in hand together. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING; OR, TEN YEARS AFTER, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The country ways are full of mire Last Line: And die into my wedding day. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NOON ORGAN CONCERT, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Text First Line: Ave maria, he started to play Last Line: In the babble of voices and patter of feet. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Mary (name); Mothers; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NOVICE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE OLD COUPLE (THE WORKHOUSE - OLD STYLE), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old wife speaks: Last Line: The lord shouldn't grant a long life to the poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD MAN DREAMS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for one hour of youthful joy! Last Line: To please the gray-haired boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Marriage; Old Age; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD PROFESSOR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard Last Line: Seeks the high lark in god's clear element. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Teaching & Teachers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE ORIENTAL WAY, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: The fond husband will, after conjugal strife Last Line: Cuts the woman as well as the argument short. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink. Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 PARISH REGISTER: 2. MARRIAGES, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disposed to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay Last Line: When every beauty fades, and all the passions sleep. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PER-CONTRA, OR MATRIMONIAL BALANCE, by GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange, a deaf wife to prefer! Last Line: True, but she's also dumb, good sir. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PERFECT COMRADE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The perfect comrade says nothing, nothing Last Line: With twin stars, shining serenely. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PERNICKETY WIFE, by J. KNOX CHRISTIE Poem Text First Line: My wife's a weary, waefu' wife Last Line: My wife is sae pernickety. Subject(s): Cleanliness; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE PIPE OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the magic Last Line: The marriage ceremony? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Marriage; Peace; Smoking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE PLACE OF FAME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: The marriage registers of somerset Last Line: Say from your heart:—god rest each simple soul! Subject(s): Marriage; Somerset, England; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PLAINT OF THE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fain would I be sleeping, dreaming" Last Line: "driven out, thrown away, married too soon!" Subject(s): Insomnia;marriage; Sleeplessness;weddings;husbands;wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 115, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bridegroom liu is eighty-two Last Line: Then killed by the girls from the blue Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 125, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year's grain being still unripe Last Line: And wealth just makes them dumber Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Marriage; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 127, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When an old man takes a young wife Last Line: Both show the other affection Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Old Age; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 137, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamt I went home Last Line: And my temples weren't their old color Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dreams; Homecoming; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 184, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buy meat with blood still dripping Last Line: And both of you finally part Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Food & Eating; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 55, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The willows grow dark like mist Last Line: No swallow nests allowed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Absence; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 59, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a girl to the east Last Line: They'll reap their judgment in tears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Punishment; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 63, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In loyang so many girls Last Line: Or thinking of husbands at home Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Girls; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 64, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring women flaunt their looks Last Line: Their husbands know why Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Flirtation; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 75, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wife got tired of weaving Last Line: Crying in pain to the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 93, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All kinds of people exist under heaven Last Line: I'd head east Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Humanity; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 11, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A son demands a wife Last Line: But not in your book of crimes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Marriage; Wealth; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 19, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When men and women marry Last Line: Bound for the hell of no relief Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hell; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S BRIDAL DAY SONG, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my love's like the steadfast sun Last Line: The best of all that's not divine. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S SONG FOR HIS WIFE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many summers, love Last Line: To thee and time! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): The Poet's Song To His Wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S VOW, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve is a twofold mystery Last Line: Still, like them we must weep.' Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Marriage; Eve; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S WIFE, by JESSICA BELL Poem Text First Line: Because you could say the things Last Line: By our cottage door. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds that sang so sweet in the summer skies are fled Last Line: Till in ripeness of old age we both drop to earth together! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PREACHER'S WIFE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless his wife, the preacher's wife Last Line: The rising of the just. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology THE PRIDE OF WESTMORELAND, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man of ninety-three Last Line: Like harry the eighth before me. Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PROCESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let our womankind tend hearth and house Last Line: Make deposition as to woman's worth. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PROGRESS OF MARRIAGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aetatis suae fifty-two Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PROPERTIES OF A GOOD WIFE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Attend ye fair, who wish to prove Last Line: "from every ravish'd tongue." Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK 7, STANZA 7, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I saw thee on the day thou wast a bride Last Line: Was mine, -- for thee, that day, I breathed devotion leal. Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK 7, STANZA 8, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: And many a heart, yielding, that festive day Last Line: All gentle feelings in their way to some dire end. Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood a damsel very early Subject(s): Jews; Marriage; Sons-in-law; Love - Complaints; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 REIVER'S WEDDING, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O will ye hear a mirthful bourd? Last Line: A shackled knight along. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RETORT, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old birch [or, nick], who taught the village school Last Line: "o, dear! I didn't know 't was you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE REWAKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full 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 RING'S MOTTO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A lover gave the wedding-ring Last Line: Till death us join Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE RIVER-MECHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedi Subject(s): Nature; Marriage; Againg; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation THE 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 RURAL LASS, by CATHERINE (YEO) JEMMAT Poem Text First Line: My father and mother (what ails them?) Last Line: This world it should end as begun. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RWOSE IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In zummer, leate at evenen tide Last Line: Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Love; Marriage; Roses; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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 SANDGATE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was a young maid truly Last Line: And my good days are all done Subject(s): Lament;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE SATIN SHOES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever I walk to church to wed Last Line: Like flute-notes softly blown. Subject(s): Marriage; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SEATON TERRACE LASS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love at seaton terrace dwells Last Line: The seaton terrace lass. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SECOND WIFE, by KATE PORTER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: You lived in a gray cottage on a street Last Line: Could I but give to roger his first son! Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver waters smoothly slip / in an overarching flood Last Line: And few there are who understand. Subject(s): Floods; Marriage; Sound; Water; Waterfalls; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SHEEPSHEARING MAN, by FRANCES EADES Poem Text First Line: Now girls, please take my advice Last Line: Ere you marry a sheepshearing man. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full 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 SILVER ARROW, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With your fifteen percent chance to survive Last Line: Unbidden, through the forbidden city Subject(s): Railroads; Survival; Marriage THE SILVER WEDDING; TO JOHN NEWMAN, D.D., by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wedding of silver! - and what shall we do? Last Line: Find the years that are past were as silver to gold! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SISTERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were two daughters of one race Last Line: O, the earl was fair to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 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: 84, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But when she view'd his countenance o'ercast Last Line: Her tender eyes bright tears of ruth bedim. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 85, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: She did not press him with unwelcome speech Last Line: Till he should choose to unburden all his woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Marriage; Sympathy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Empathy THE 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 SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SONG, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My time, o ye grattans, was happily spent Last Line: Begone, froward wife, for I'll drink till I die! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SONG OF 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 SOW OF FEELING, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malignant planets! Do ye still combine Last Line: Life, to be numbered 'mongst the feeling swine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE SPANISH WIVES: SONG BETWEEN MR. LEVERIDGE AND MRS. CROSS, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Fairest nymph that ever bless'd our shore Last Line: A wiser will supply, &c. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TEA-GOWN, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lady has a tea-gown Last Line: Of that gown at two pounds ten! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TELEPHONE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was just as far as I could walk Last Line: "well, so I came." Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Telephones; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness THE TEST OF CONJUGAL LOVE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his fever burnt bed, quick gasping for breath Last Line: But the gentleman there on the bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE THREE WIVES; A JUBILIATION, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first was a lady whose dominant passion Last Line: For I'm clear of the world and the flesh and the devil! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TOY SOLDIER, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I want a soldier Last Line: I'd not consider wedding one. No, that's out! Subject(s): Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TREASURED THREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Here with my treasured three I sit Last Line: To leave this little house of joy? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Pets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TRETIS OF THE TUA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apon the midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis Last Line: Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif, gif ye suld wed one? Variant Title(s): The Book Of The Two Married Women And The Widow Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TROUBLES OF MATTHEW MAHONEY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little town in devonshire, in the mellow september moonlight Last Line: And matthew mahoney dearly does her love. Subject(s): Distrust; Love; Marriage; Repentance; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Penitence THE TRUE LOVE-KNOTT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But why / on thy beloved feeds thine eye? Last Line: Not I, but thou and I are mine. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON, by HENRY PORTER Poem Text First Line: Gentlemen, I come to ye like one that lacks and would borrow Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Anger; Marriage; Neighbors; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TYTHE. TO THE BRIDE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If nine times you your bride-groome kisse Last Line: Won't for his tenth part ask you one. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE UNEQUAL FETTERS, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could we stop the time that's flying Last Line: At the full length of their chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE USUAL WAY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took Last Line: Well -- they do -- in the usual way. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VACUUM, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full 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 VICTORIES OF LOVE: TH WEDDING SERMON, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truths of love are like the sea Last Line: Content with mediocrities! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though days do gain upon the night Last Line: A-look'd on as I look'd on you. Subject(s): Chairs; Comfort; Fireplaces; Marriage; Nostalgia; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VIOLENCE OF PRONOUN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loving came her way Last Line: "that makes us vicious." Subject(s): Marriage; Racism; Slavery; Social Problems; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs THE 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 VOCABULARY OF JOY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm on the grass in front of the library, writing Subject(s): Laughter; Interracial Marriage THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are going to marry my pretty relation Last Line: And your worth not the best of your friends will disparage! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Marriage; Travel; English; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WATCHER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose for a young head Last Line: And the lips and the hair of the bride. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WATCHERS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's nose is white from the icy window Last Line: Why we watch him Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WAY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full 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 WAY TO LIVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man and a woman got married one day Last Line: And if we can't get on we may think it strange Subject(s): Human Behavior;marriage; Conduct Of Life;human Nature;weddings;husbands;wives THE WEARY PUND O' TOW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weary pund, the weary pund Last Line: The weary pund, &c. Subject(s): Marriage; Drinks & Drinking THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another? Last Line: Mother, my mother. Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE 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, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ah, day of joy! The sound of pipe and flute with sweetly blending Last Line: Of sweet-voiced instruments! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by THOMAS HOOD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady clara vere de vere Last Line: Bound for the dam of rotter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her satin gown so fine Last Line: And our lilies wait the dead. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Life; Love; Marriage; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O marriage-bells, your clamor tells Last Line: Macon, georgia, 1865. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells! Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WEDDING BONNET, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She tied her wedding bonnet on Last Line: Then blushed as if she felt the ring. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING DAY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart, name the day for me Last Line: Rosebuds wither, picked too soon. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING DAY; OR, THE BUCCANEER'S CURSE; A FAMILY LEGEND, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has a jocund sound Last Line: With 'drink there! -- we'll have henceforth no more cakes and ale!!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Curses; Marriage; Pirates; Ghosts; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Piracy; Buccaneers THE WEDDING FEAST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced to walk, not long ago Last Line: Betoken singularity. Subject(s): Feasts; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 1, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh who art thou - thou fearful guest Last Line: "and we will dart into the sun." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 2, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fires bedight that magic sprite Last Line: "eternal and angelic creature." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 3, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That god rode forth upon my mind Last Line: "her will upon this night be done." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 4, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What strange pavilions builded bright Last Line: "thy will upon this night be done." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 5, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last from dreamless sleep I came Last Line: To my great love, a holy kiss. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING FEAST: 6, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more - no more - not any more Last Line: "I am mother to all living men!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING GARMENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old coat, the easy coat Last Line: What's the harm? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING GIFT, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the garret under the sloping eaves Last Line: To every girl on her marriage day. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING MORN, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, come forth, but never to return Last Line: Himself between their lips a grave to make. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING MORNING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tabitha dressed for her wedding Last Line: "she can have him. I shall not mourn!" Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING MORNING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread the feast, and let there be Last Line: And cathleen weeps among her streams. Subject(s): Marriage; Sex; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING PARTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the large frame of the window collapses in the fire Last Line: For the hat that he wore to a wedding. Subject(s): Fire; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING POSY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to thy newly-wedded hand, which gave Last Line: Among the blest shall tell of orange flowers! Subject(s): Marriage; Posies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING RING DANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dance in circles holding Last Line: Waiting for a magnet Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Marriage THE WEDDING VEIL, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear anna, when I brought her veil Last Line: "the dead is safe with god alone!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING VOW, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not stand at the altar, I stood Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING-TIME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: This is the merry marriage time Last Line: May last through wintry weather. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WELFORD WEDDING, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Susan and charlotte and letty and all Last Line: Susan and charlotte and letty and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEREWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me in a dazzling guise Last Line: And the kiss of her stung like the fang of a snake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHIMS OF THE AMOROUS; A TRUE STORY, REPATED AFTER OLD DOCUMENTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the hedge the beetle sits sadly Last Line: Poor bride has long been dead and rotten. Subject(s): Insects; Love; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS 28: NO. 3), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple boughs lie in the eaves Last Line: And a bride girl peered at her from the floor. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHITE WITCH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven help your home tonight Last Line: "and married for your woe." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Marriage; Witchcraft & Witches; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That whitsun, I was late getting away Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE WIDOWER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free as air Last Line: To laugh -- or cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE, by 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, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little dreams of maidenhood Last Line: Should laugh to find you there. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: The wife,' he said, whenever he spoke of her Last Line: The use that never sees a flower or star. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE, by ANNA SPENCER TWITCHELL Poem Text First Line: He sees the wife, from slim young comeliness Last Line: The halo that surrounds her mother-brow. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE OF BATH HER PROLOGUE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the woes of matrimonial life Last Line: And bless those souls my conduct help'd to save! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE OF LOKI, by CHARLOTTE ELLIOT (1830-1880) Poem Text First Line: Cursed by the gods and crowned with Last Line: Resumes her constant place. Alternate Author Name(s): Florenz Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE 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 WRAPT IN WETHER'S SKIN (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sweet william he married him a wife Last Line: And now she make william a very good wife Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE WIFE'S APPPEAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat and read. A book with silver clasps Last Line: Frighted with calumny! -- and this is fame! Subject(s): Marriage; Pride; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE WIFE'S CHRISTMAS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can you speak to me so, charlie! Last Line: Your wife but a single year! Subject(s): Christmas; Marriage; Nativity, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S LAMENT, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like daytime Last Line: Me, poor little wife! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S POEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My works, dear poet wife, are set Last Line: To time's remotest, fairest shelf! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S SONG, by ERNEST BENSHIMOL Poem Text First Line: When I awake Last Line: Oh what am I? Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE'S 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 WIFE'S WILL, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit still - a word - a breath may break Last Line: Lit by our clear fire's happy glow; Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFE; A TRUE STORY DONE INTO VERSE, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her husband starved; and gazed up in her face Last Line: She and the child together ate that fare. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: MARRIAGE MORNING, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light, so low upon earth Last Line: Flash for a million miles. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WINSOME WEE THING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is a winsome wee thing Last Line: And think my lot divine. Variant Title(s): My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WISE WOMAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes grow hot, his words grow wild Last Line: Who understands him. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WISHBONE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another fowl had gone the way Last Line: "oh, never mind! I wished that, too!" Subject(s): Marriage; Wishes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WITCH-MOTHER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep Last Line: And twae mair sauls in hell. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE WIVES OF WEINSBERG, by GOTTFRIED AUGUST BURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which way to weinsberg? Neighbor, say! Last Line: A weinsberg dame my wife shall be. Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOFLE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this week Last Line: To pull you all hup to a'beckett the beak. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOMAN AT HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please note this little fact, I beg: it is the Last Line: Softly smiles, for she's content with a reflected glory. Subject(s): Housewives; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOOD ROAD, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: All day they are hurrying off to the fair Last Line: Then we'll turn from the highway and take the wood road. Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Marriage; Fairs; Pageants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORN WEDDING-RING, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few Last Line: Of those fond eyes, -- fond as they were when this old ring was new! Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORST OF TIMES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two men agree to swap wives Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WRAGGLE TAGGLE GIPSIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three gipsies a-come to my door Last Line: "along with the wraggle taggle gipsies, o!" Subject(s): Gypsies;love - Marital;marriage;wandering & Wanderers;; Gipsies;wedded Love;marriage - Love;weddings;husbands;wives THE WRITER'S JOURNAL: POSSESSION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was our wedding-day Last Line: God's mercy thou, and therefore shalt endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, / when the coach rolled off Last Line: "please write, ""I know." Subject(s): Marriage; New York City - 19th Century; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THEKLA; A SWEDISH SAGA: 3. THE BRIDAL, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The guests have met in the castle hall Last Line: "that I had never been born!" Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THEME AND VARIATION, by PETER DE VRIES Poem Source First Line: Coleridge caused his wife unrest Last Line: But he left no one in the lurch, %and played the stuff he wrote in church Subject(s): Marriage THEOGONY: MARITAL MISERY, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As drones, appressive habitants of hives Last Line: What ills on ills which will admit no cure! Subject(s): Marriage; Pain THEOTOKOS, by LEONORE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Light coming out of the darkness out of the earth Last Line: Better not to appear in tortillas glass building %what assurance can you give us that our sores will Subject(s): Marriage; Virginity; Women's Rights 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 THERE WAS A YOUNG HUSBAND NAMED DWIGHTLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If I knew how to do it politely Subject(s): Flirtation;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF HARROW, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I'll wheel you all day in this barrow! Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age THERE'S A WEDDING IN THE ORCHARD, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wedding in the orchard, dear Last Line: And aisles of flowery light. Subject(s): Marriage; Orchards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THEY SAID I WAS A CRYING BRIDE, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. And mrs. Clemente rios Last Line: Come from my eyes, the water being water %was so easily explained as tears Subject(s): Marriage; Tears THIN-SKINNED, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world may be shaped as nourished Last Line: Shed a petal, disappear Subject(s): Marriage THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14. GOOD WIFE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it all that men possess, among themselves conversing? Last Line: Bad with bad in ill suit well; but good with good live blessed. Subject(s): Marriage THIRD PERSONS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shouldn't have been so accommodating Last Line: For such an intrusion Subject(s): Fights; Marriage THIRD WIFE'S OBSERVATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Stephen gilhooley's third wife says Last Line: Are the signs of a comical man Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Marriage; Rites And Ceremonies THIRTEEN YEARS, by ERIN MOURE Poem Source First Line: I am in a daydream of my uncle Last Line: Who in the hell did my cousin marry. %I tell you Subject(s): Marriage; Teenagers THIS AND MORE, by GLENN SIEBERT Poem Source First Line: Attenders to this day Last Line: Attend all this Subject(s): Marriage THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THOSE DICKINS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose you think it queer, an' 't ain't no common thing, I know Last Line: She'll know her husband sent 'em, an' wants -- to be -- forgiven. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Marriage; Reading; Clemency; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THOUGHTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY WIFE'S DEATH, by NARA SINGDE Poem Source First Line: When will this misery end? Last Line: My tears are gone, %ashes of paper rise Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Marriage; Mourning THREE TRUE ACCOUNTS: HUSBAND, by SHERYL NOETHE Poem Source First Line: Has a bumblebee in the middle Last Line: All changed now back into the husband Subject(s): Change; Marriage THRISSIL AND THE ROSE [OR, ROIS]., by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When merche was with variand windis past Subject(s): Marriage THROUGH THE NIGHT, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: One hope have I-one prayer both night and day Last Line: Take her. She is for evermore thy bride.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THY FAINTING SPOUSE, YET STILL THY SPOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And tired, thy dove Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage THY LIP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lip thy eye thy brow thy single nature thy chorus thy marriage to Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THY LIP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lip thy eye thy brow thy single nature thy chorus thy marriage to Last Line: Ious care thy pavaillion in baths do steepe them in common marriage amen Subject(s): Marriage TILL DEATH DO US JOIN, by ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till death us part Last Line: The life in god shall make us one forever. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TITHONUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall Last Line: And thee returning on thy silver wheels. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Immortality; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO 'THE WIFE', by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say I'm 'getting used' to you Last Line: So used to you I couldn't live without you! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO - (3), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee on thy bridal day Last Line: The world all love before thee. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO - (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 CITY COUSIN ABOUT TO BE MARRIED, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it true, what they tell me, my beautiful cousin Last Line: "and husbands exclaiming, ""I envy the man!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE, by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful girl said something in your praise Last Line: In a community of flames and breathe %contentment, savouring wine and wreath Alternate Author Name(s): Prince, F. T. Subject(s): Marriage TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When peleus wedded on thessalia's plain Last Line: Grow impotent and rotten in a stew. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Pleasure; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A FRIEND 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 FRIEND UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know no fitter subject for your view Last Line: Prove good to you, and perfect as this wife. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A FRIEND UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER (2), by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, who understands you well would swear Last Line: That you the life, and this your copy were. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A HUSBAND, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full 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 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 JILTED SWAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get thee back neglected friends Last Line: Curst is she that marrieth. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Laughter; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A LADY BEFORE MARRIAGE, by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, formed by nature, and refined by art Last Line: And s[ecious joys are brought with real woe Subject(s): Landscape; Marriage 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 A YOUNG GENTLE-WOMAN [CONCERNING HER CHOICE], by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, heaven-designed soul! Last Line: May it not be amongst the sonnes of men. Variant Title(s): To [mrs. M.r.] Councel Concerning Her Choice Subject(s): Marriage; Nuns; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A. R. UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I would instruct or tutor you Last Line: What yourself are, what other wives should be. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO AN OLD WIFE TALKING TO HIM, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, beldam ugly! Thou'lt not find Last Line: That tom-a-lincoln and bow bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO BE OR NOT TO BE, by DAVID GITTLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Body and spirit close wedded Last Line: Be this our cherished creed. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO CELIA ON HER WEDDING DAY, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst heav'n with kind propitious ray Last Line: Wrapt in a glorious blaze of light Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Tragedy TO E.F, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt thy little bosom beats Last Line: That glitters on the stream. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO 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 HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO HER FATHER WITH SOME VERSES, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most truly honored, and as truly dear Last Line: Such is my bond, none can discharge but I, %yet paying is not paid until I die Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO HER MOST HONOURED FATHER, THOMAS DUDLEY ESQ, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir of late delighted with the sight Last Line: Then water in the boundless ocean %flows Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness 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, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though valentine brings love Subject(s): Marriage TO HIS WIFE, by SU WU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since our hair was plaited and we became man and wife Last Line: And if I die, we will go on thinking of each other. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO HIS WIFE (COMPOSED AT ROTTERDAM), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a city Last Line: I drink at rotterdam! Variant Title(s): Rotterdam;to His Wife Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips TO HIS WIFE 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 HIS WIFE WITH A KNIFE ON THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A knife, dear girl, cuts love they say Last Line: Save only--'cut and come again.' Variant Title(s): To Mary Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO 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 JUDITH, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now by a ritual of legality Subject(s): Marriage; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO LORD HARLEY, SINCE EARL OF OXFORD, ON HIS MARRIAGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among the numbers who employ %their tongues and pens to give you joy Last Line: A mortal of superior kind Subject(s): Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Marriage TO MAKE A MARRIED LIFE HAPPY, by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brisk young wife, who did a fortune bring Last Line: To your vexations ne'er shall be an end. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MAKE THE WIFE KIND, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To make the wife kind, and to keep the house still Last Line: As to make, by your jealousy, horns for yourselves. Subject(s): Jealousy; Marriage; Trust; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MARY PRIDHAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tho' unseen! Tho' I have left behind Last Line: A father's blessing on thee, gentle maid! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving and moaning / under our coverings Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving and moaning %under our coverings Last Line: But michal from myself Subject(s): Bible; Marriage TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This you shall owe me-that your soul shall keep Last Line: Your joyous and impetuous infancy. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so it shall be, when you come to die Last Line: Climb slowly down those last dark stairs to bed. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 3. APOLOGY FOR NEGLECT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, my fair! Subdue those angry lights! Last Line: But never yours, nor your desired content. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 4. ON HER SINGING THE GLORIA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can that small voice assault the embanded skies Last Line: Poised, while the dawn within her east was grey. Subject(s): Marriage; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 5. IN HER ABSENCE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is her couch, this is her very nest Last Line: Who never yet broke promise or was late.' Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 6. AT THE SEASIDE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These tempers and incalculable hues Last Line: Corners and holes of soft indwelling night. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 7. ON DOMESTIC GOVERNMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the forgotten time ere mankind grew Last Line: Of my command and your obedience. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 8. AFTER RONSARD, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old, and I-if that should be Last Line: "when I was happy, beautiful, and young." Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MISS AURELIA C---R; ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDING, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, fair aurelia, cease to mourn Last Line: "you'll find your sister in his arms." Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MISS BIGG, PREVIOUS TO HER MARRIAGE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cambrick! With gratefull blessings would I pay Last Line: And have no tears to wipe, but tears of joy Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage TO MISS BIGG, PREVIOUS TO HER MARRIAGE - NOT SENT, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cambrick! Thou'st been to me a good Last Line: Slight be her colds & few her tears Subject(s): Marriage TO MITHERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, mithers, o mithers! Last Line: That hauds a drucken wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. AND MRS. G. E. STALEY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since cunning cupid's mystic darts Last Line: Hold the sunshine in your heart. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. BARBAULD, WITH A MAP OF THE LAND OF MATRIMONY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sailor worn by toil and wet with storms Last Line: And I my destined captive hold too fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Marriage; Love - Erotic; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 7. JOYS OF LIFE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It's a fine thing to live and to give life Last Line: Which waits for you beyond the sepulchre. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 8. THE TRUEST LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: In the world's book so full of vulgar things Last Line: Of being just as true as when 'twas born. Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MRS HOUGHTON OF BORMOUNT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are always making a god of your spouse Last Line: For you, by this rule, must adore all mankind Subject(s): Marriage TO MRS. LEIGH UPON HER WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While all to this auspicious day Last Line: Not wear herself, the breeches. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY 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 BRIDE, by JANOS GARAY Poem Source First Line: I embrace you Last Line: You are my sweet mate! Subject(s): Marriage TO MY COUSIN CAREW RALEGH MARRYING MY LADY ALTHAM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy youth! That shalt possess Last Line: Oft destroy both smell and sight. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO MY HUSBAND, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "when from the world, I shall be tane" Last Line: For I'me a parting now from you Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Diamonds;farewell;marriage; Parting;weddings;husbands;wives TO MY HUSBAND'S FIRST GRAY HAIR, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES Poem Text First Line: Thou strange, unbidden guest! From whence Last Line: Such is thine errand, first gray hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre Subject(s): Aging; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY 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 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 Full 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, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY WIFE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan Last Line: Now you become my boredom and my failure, %another way of suffering, a risk, %a heavier-than-air hyp Subject(s): Marriage TO MY WIFE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who else, dear eyes of brown, could know or dream Last Line: To think how suddenly life's partings come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY WIFE, by JOHN EDWARD RAISER Poem Text First Line: I will be silent / e'en though her words Last Line: There's no demur. Alternate Author Name(s): Raiser, J. Edward Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery TO MY WIFE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two clouds that float together all the day Last Line: Points out the lights and open doors of home! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO 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 ONE PERSUADING A LADY TO MARRIAGE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, bold youth; all's heaven here Last Line: More bright and large than his. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): An Answer To Another Persuading A Lady To Marriage Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO ONE WHO FAILED, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you failed, because you failed Last Line: To brute men, dowered with dying hearts. Subject(s): Errors; Failure; Friendship; Love; Marriage; Mistakes; Fallacies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO ONE WHO HAD LEFT HER CONVENT TO MARRY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago you gave yourself to god Last Line: Who knows? Next year may add a third, the devil. Subject(s): Convents; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO ROSEMARY AND BAIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wooing's ended; now my wedding's neere Last Line: When gloves are giving, guilded be you there. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO SILVIA TO WED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us (though late) at last (my silvia) wed Last Line: No man at one time, can be wise, and love. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO SPEAK OF WOE THAT IS IN MARRIAGE', by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full 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 SURVIVE, by MARVIN MALONE Poem Source First Line: Two vowed together Last Line: Just and good to %one another Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Marriage TO THE AUTHOR'S WIFE, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear alice, through much mockery of yours Last Line: Dear alice, I must dedicate to you. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE BRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bride, so filled with rosy longings Last Line: And wedlock's wonder Subject(s): Marriage TO THE BRIDEGROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A bowl full of ambrosia Last Line: All things that are good Subject(s): Marriage TO THE COMTESSE DE MOLANDE, ABOUT TO MARRY THE DUC DE LUXEMBOURG, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say ye that years roll on and ne'er return? Last Line: "and take the highest seat below the crown'd." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE EARL OF CREWE ON HIS MARRIAGE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the duo of love Last Line: There is little libretto. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE 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 HUSBANDMAN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sown are the golden seeds in the smooth furrow Last Line: New life the furrows are giving. Subject(s): Caregivers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE LADIES, by MARY LEE CHUDLEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wife and servant are the same Last Line: You must be proud, if you'll be wise. Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism TO THE LAST WEDDING GUEST, by HORACE GREGORY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Eat my cake, eat,' cried the young Last Line: Even to the last fragment on a covered plate; %it is yours to take Subject(s): Marriage TO THE MEMORY OF ... THOMAS DUDLEY ESQ., by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By duty bound and not by custom led Last Line: And when his time with years was spent, %if some rejoiced, more did lament Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And live I still to see relations gone Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!" Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War TO THE 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 STREET PIANO: A LABOURER'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the day I worked and played Last Line: I hope to die to-night. Subject(s): Despair; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO VIOLET B. ON HER WEDDING DAY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet it is for love to live' Last Line: "sweeter yet." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOAST FROM CANA, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light, his father once had said Last Line: Like the best vintage - deeper, richer, stronger Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Toasts 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 TONIC, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the mother of three, and I'm thirty Last Line: "there's life in the old lady yet!" Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is late, my heart Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is late, my heart Last Line: Remind me who I am Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Marriage; Time TOURNAMENT, by CRISTIN BISHARA Poem Source First Line: One gets to press dough over the door if it sticks so will Last Line: They lick the chicken clean and pull on bones Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Superstition TOWARD A DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full 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 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fifty years through wind and sun and rain Last Line: We shall perchance awaken. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Churches; Gold; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 TRADER, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN Poem Source First Line: You'll be wanting a woman,' cavanaugh said with a laugh Subject(s): Marriage; Women TRAGEDY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fly with me, and be my wife Last Line: They weep and they know not the reason why. Subject(s): Marriage; Tragedy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRANSMUTATION, by OLIVE WALDRON WARNER Poem Text First Line: Marriage ties are bound by rings Last Line: Marriage ties but drag at heel. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRANSPLANTING: 3. THE INTERMARRIAGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. Jessie Last Line: Along with it, as completely %as if in suttee Subject(s): Marriage TRAVELING TO NEW YORK, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: I turned my oral tradition into an endless scream Last Line: Driven there by the lust of two, which is greater than any solitary form Subject(s): Marriage; New York City TRAVELLING TO MY SECOND MARRIAGE, by ROBERT NYE Poem Source First Line: We got into the carriage. It was hot Last Line: And there was a smell of roses Subject(s): Love; Marriage TREASURE SHARED, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: The tender wealth of happy married years Last Line: And tranquil sense of sweet proportion learned. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TREE, by JUAN CARLOS GALEANO Poem Source First Line: A man in love with a tree goes to live with him awhile before get- Last Line: Cloud, or something more versatile Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Trees 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 TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 3. TRISTRAM IN BRITTANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dawn loves the sunlight I love thee;' Last Line: So dawned the moonrise of their marriage night. Subject(s): Brittany, France; Love; Marriage; Moon; Sea; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 4. THE MAIDEN MARRIAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring watched her last moon burn and fade with may Last Line: All night safe sleeping in her maidenhood. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Sea; Spring; Tristram And Isolde; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean TROUBLE WITH WOMEN IS MEN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring Last Line: Just kick him fairly hard in the stomach, you will find it thoroughly enjoible Subject(s): Marriage TROUBLESOME WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A man had once a vicious wife Variant Title(s): The Best Of Wive Subject(s): Marriage TRUE LIFE STORIES, by PAULA GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm going berserk, running up and down the aisles looking for a bald Last Line: Shirt like mr. Clean's and enjoys himself. My mother says I'm lucky Subject(s): Marriage; Story-telling TRUTH TOLD AT LAST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says pontius in rage, contradicting his wife Last Line: You're a cuckold, says she; do I tell you truth now?' Subject(s): Anger; Life; Marriage; Truth; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TRYING, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The husband and wife had planned it for a long time Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRYST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TSANKAWI, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men hiked on a loop trail Last Line: "you live, I live, we live." Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TWELVE YEARS AFTER THE MARRIAGE SHE TRIES TO EXPLAIN HOW SHE LOVES HIM, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the mountain is a meadow with iris Subject(s): Marriage TWENTY-YEAR MARRIAGE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You keep me waiting in a truck Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWENTY-YEAR MARRIAGE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You keep me waiting in a truck Last Line: Old newspapers nobody's ever got to read again Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Erotic Love; Marriage TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: MOUNTAIN HERALD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This time, the celebrant vowed, no one would intinct Last Line: God yes, the forsythia, the forsythia Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Marriage; Parties TWO LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring Last Line: O past that is! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood TWO MARRIED, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Do you remember how we came that day Last Line: And life itself is one more certainty. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWO 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 THINGS, by AMIR MAHMUD IBN AMIR YAMINU'D-DIN TUGHRA'I Poem Text First Line: Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene Last Line: That he will not demand the debt until the judgment day. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn-i-yamin; Ibn Jemin Subject(s): Borrowers & Lenders; Marriage; Loans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWO 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 TWO WIVES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the shadow-white chamber silts the white Last Line: "back, you understand!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore." Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating UNBUNGLING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He unbungled his wife and hit the road Last Line: Several familiar %children of god. Subject(s): Escapes; Marriage UNDER A BLUE MOON, OXFORD, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Introduced by letter as 'relatives' Last Line: We're here till new year's, looking for certain signs Subject(s): Brides; Honeymoons; Marriage UNDER THE SHEET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a terrible night! Does the night Last Line: A shape and a sheet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Night; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime UNHOLY SONNETS: 1, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a fine new shirt his wife has given him Last Line: That pop him open like a purple fig Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Marriage UNION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hirsute, his highness' beetle-browed defense Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UNTIL DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "make me no vows of constancy, dear friend" Last Line: "but while I live, be true" Subject(s): Fidelity;marriage; Faithfulness;constancy;weddings;husbands;wives UNWEDDED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her there in the evening sun Last Line: You waste your pity on such as she. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Love; Marriage; Women; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON 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 MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness UPON MY LORD BROGHILL'S WEDDING; DIALOGUE, SUCKLING AND BOND, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bed, dull man Last Line: Another, when they're ready, shows them game. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winds of winter glue Last Line: Sit unafraid. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON ONE LILLIE, WHO MARRYED WITH MAID CALL'D ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What times of sweetnesse this faire day fore-shows Last Line: To spring from these a sweet posterity. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In what soft language shall my thoughts get free Last Line: My spotless faith shall be for ever thine. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VACANCY, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Faceless, I chase you Last Line: I am about to become Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage 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 Full 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 VASE THAT IS MARRIAGE, by ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA Poem Source First Line: The vase is the painted figure Last Line: Put some flowers in, or not lack the desire? Subject(s): Marriage; Metaphor; Vases VERSE ON THE WU PEOPLE'S MARRYING OFF THEIR DAUGHTERS, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: When planting flowers, don't plant them by the official highway Last Line: So that with graying heads they can regard one another, and she won't fear losing her place Subject(s): Marriage VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES & AKEXANDRA OF DENMARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would sing a song of gladness Last Line: Britain's daughter, albert's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Denmark; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Marriage; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Danes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Welshmen; Welshwomen VIETNAM, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: You become pen pals with a comvict Last Line: Should have fought world war ii %and we should have gone to vietnam Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In london's fair city a merchant did dwell Last Line: And vilikins and his dinah lie buried in one grave. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage - Forced; Suicide; Marriage - Arranged VILLAGE DOGS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Groggy, we watched the ball descend Last Line: In the decades' first hour, who %could deny that the marriage was over? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Marriage; Pets VILLAGE FOR A WEDDING, by JAN BOLESLAW OZOG Poem Source First Line: Sky like the pigeon's little belly Last Line: Here you are invited to the wedding Subject(s): Marriage VISIONS IN VERSE: 7. MARRIAGE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest, this vision is thy due Last Line: And her awards preclude appeals. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VISIONS: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou now hast the money, -- why longer delay? Last Line: "for ever, amen!"" the old mother exclaims." Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WAITING FOR MY WIFE'S COMMUTER FLIGHT, 45 MINUTES LATE, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: When a convulsive boom shakes Last Line: Like a top. A screw needed tightening, %chuck said. Such a little thing Subject(s): Air Travel; Airplane Accidents; Marriage; Waiting WALKEN HWOME AT NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You then, vor me, meade up your mind Last Line: I'll leäd ye right, you needèn doubt. Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WALKING HOME AT NIGHT; HUSBAND TO WIFE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You then for me made up your mind Last Line: I'll lead you right, you need not doubt. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WANDERLUST, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unsuited %& was %a root Last Line: Pavati & shiva: the destruction of the world Subject(s): Marriage WAR BRIDE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who lives with a just war honorable mail order catalog afraid to Last Line: Row he'll be home. Maybe a hopeful letter some news stuck in the blue metal slot Subject(s): Marriage WARNING, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as you never marry me, and I never marry you Last Line: To know that I never can marry you, and you never can marry me! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WAS HE HENPECKED?, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what it is, my dear Last Line: Said mrs. Dorking wisely. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism WATCHERS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's nose is white from the icy window Last Line: Why we watch him Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness WATER CAN ONLY WRAP ME BUT LIFE MUST HOLD ME, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black man, from oklahoma Last Line: Love and exposure have become a poem. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Slavery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs WAX GIRL, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ornamental %presence Last Line: Growing warm %that wax girl Subject(s): Marriage 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 WED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married him on christmas morn Last Line: Would I were dead. Subject(s): Ignorance; Love; Marriage; Sex; Unfaithfulness; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy WEDDED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some quick and bitter words we said Last Line: Now we are wed Subject(s): Hate;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives WEDDED (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 (PROVENCAL AIR), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The happy bells shall ring Last Line: Marguerite. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDED BLISS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come and be my mate!' said the eagle to the hen Last Line: And the clam sucked, the salmon swam, alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism WEDDED HANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year, sweet wife, is on the wane Last Line: Good-night, old year, good-night! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDED 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 WEDDED, BUT NOT MATED, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wedding bells and death-knells Last Line: The bells have ceased to swing. Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Marriage; Wedding Song; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium WEDDING, 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, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the courtyard Last Line: Only a blue dove Subject(s): Marriage WEDDING, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: How could I know all ten Last Line: We climbed the stairs and closed the door Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Marriage WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: This is the anniversary of the day Last Line: To us, for all the ills life chose to send. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING BED IN MANGKUTANA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the village guesthouse Last Line: From the same soil. Subject(s): Indonesia; Marriage; Sex; Dutch East Indies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING BELLS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight shade is calmly falling Last Line: Sweetly sound the wedding bells. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING CAKE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a plane Last Line: Was funnier than the whole arm. Subject(s): Babies; Brides; Clothing & Dress; Marriage; White (color); Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING CELEBRATION, by TENRAI KONO Poem Source First Line: The new couple is being united in the hall Last Line: And the family will be prosperous Subject(s): Marriage WEDDING DAY; A LACE 'TELL', NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Nineteen long lines hanging over my door Last Line: Down in the kitchen the cook she will run, %and tell mr. Bellman to ring the ting-tang Subject(s): Marriage WEDDING FEAST, by AMY BOWER Poem Text First Line: Just one more bride has passed before Last Line: Blessed the bride in her silks and laces. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING GARMENT, by ROWLAND WATKYNS Poem Source First Line: Faith is the wedding garment, lind within Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Marriage WEDDING GIFTS, by ADRIENNE SU Poem Source First Line: Everywhere a reason for caution: Last Line: Which you thought were material %become irreplaceable Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Marriage; Poetry And Poets WEDDING GIFTS, SELS., by S. Y. AGNON Poem Source First Line: The magnate renowned, sire of the bride Last Line: Till the end of a hundred and twenty year Subject(s): Marriage WEDDING IN ANTWERP, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: The life of the table, the art historian Last Line: My hands are filled with their treasure Subject(s): Marriage WEDDING MARCH, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Light of the chameleon radiance above Last Line: Of the cretins Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Romance 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 OF THE LADY THERESA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas when the fifth alphonso in leon held his sway Last Line: There she, an aged saint, expired, -- there sleeps she with the dead Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Lament; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Revenge 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 PILLOW, by KIM SOWOL Poem Source First Line: Jaw clenched Last Line: Moonlight dapples the windowsill Subject(s): Marriage WEDDING SEASON, by JOHAN LUDVIG RUNEBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter said to her aged mother Last Line: For the one who loves each season' Alternate Author Name(s): Runeberg, J. L. Subject(s): Marriage WEDDING SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In nuptial chamber far from feast Last Line: And, smiling, gives his blessing Subject(s): Marriage 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 Full 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 WEE WEE HUSBAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Comfits, nor honey Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Money WEEP NOT FOR THOSE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb Last Line: Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Religion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology WEEPING FOR MY HUSBAND, by CHEN DEYI Poem Source First Line: For four decades you were an accomplished minister Last Line: Many times I grieve and bitter tears fall Subject(s): Grief; Marriage WEEPING OVER MY HUSBAND MENGDUAN ON RETURNING HOME, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: The year was drawing to an end when I returned from a far-off land Last Line: I'd look upon death as homecoming and not fear its pain Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Marriage WELCH CAMP, NEVADA, 1864: DIANA ABBEY MEETS THE MAN SHE EVENTUALLY WIL, by ROBERT JOE STOUT Poem Source First Line: The boys, used to rattlers, wolves, explosions Last Line: A new little tower of children's blocks, %'you buy kerchief? Or perfume?' Subject(s): Camping; Marriage; Nevada WELCOME, HUSBANDS, by MARCELLA ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: We extend to you a welcome hearty Last Line: Bestow. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WERE I BUT HIS OWN WIFE, by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were I but his own wife, to guard and to guide him Last Line: To rise like the morning star, darling for you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Of The Nation Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEST RUNNING BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Fred, where is north? Last Line: To-day will be the day of what we both said Subject(s): Marriage; Brooks; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The WHAT ALMOST EVERY WOMAN KNOWS SOONER OR LATER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with Last Line: Most of them are really very deeply ensconced in the affection of their wife Subject(s): Marriage WHEN FOLKS ARE MARRIED, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When folks are married we extend our warm congratulations Last Line: "that is the time to come around and yell ""congratulations!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHEN I 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 I MEAN TO MARRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When do I mean to marry? - well Last Line: And look about me for a wife! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHEN MAIMIE MARRIED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When maimie married charley Last Line: When maimie married -- charley brown! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHERE IT WAS AT BACK THEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Husband, / last night I dreamt Subject(s): Marriage; Dreams; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nightmares WHERE WERE YOU?, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was planting bulbs, my hands deep in the earth Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation WHITE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Older brother of a wedding guest, %don't wait for mist, %don't wait for rice Subject(s): Marriage; Wedding Song WHITE SHROUDS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From our kitchen window I watched the hard sleet chipping Last Line: To husband the small logs, two at a time, onto the fire. Subject(s): Cold; Homeless; Marriage; Winter; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That whitsun, I was late getting away Last Line: A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower %sent out of sight,somewhere becoming rain Subject(s): Marriage WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP NOT ALONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who is this? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Identity WHY DOHERTY DIED, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: It was out on the bogan near billabong creek Last Line: "faith! 'tis now that I know why poor doherty died." Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Obesity; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHY DON'T THE MEN PROPOSE?, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't the men propose, mamma? Last Line: Why won't the men propose? Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIDOW, by AL MASARIK Poem Source First Line: Together so many years Last Line: Here are his empty shoes Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Widows And Widowers 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 LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are some of us Last Line: We swim like a fish for his brother Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are some of us Last Line: If he does %we swim like a fish for his brother Subject(s): Marriage WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had a couple the oblique way Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE, by WILLIAM+(1) LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: By love directed, I would choose a wife Subject(s): Marriage WIFE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: That's how it felt, that I was wind Last Line: No hope of going out. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Grief; Marriage 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 IS AWAY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh welcome, lone cricket, thy song Last Line: The wife who is far, far away. Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness WIFE OF THE HUSBAND, by MICERE GITHAE MUGO Poem Source First Line: His snores %protect the sleeping hut Last Line: O, wife of the husband! Subject(s): Marriage WIFE POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it's clear at last, she dropped Last Line: And hot clouds of the old days of summer. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE SPEAKS, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Husband, today could you and I behold Last Line: Wait for a future which contains no past? Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage WIFE TO HUSBAND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I went past you down this hill Last Line: And nought had passed of all that was of yore? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE TO HUSBAND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dust, and thou art quick and glad Last Line: Some grace of memory, fair howe'er she be. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE TO HUSBAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon the faults in me Last Line: I must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIFE'S LAMENT, by DARYL MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You no longer watch how the moon finds gaps Subject(s): Marriage WIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sing of myself, a sorrowful woman Last Line: Hard is the lot of one that longs for love in vain Subject(s): Grief; Marriage WIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I make this song sadly about myself Last Line: A joyful floor. Grief for them %who wait longing for love Subject(s): Grief; Marriage WIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A song I sing of sorrow unceasing Subject(s): Grief; Love - Marital; Marriage WILT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a man dies a bachelor the balinese say that in the next life he will Last Line: Der an occult power or impotent Subject(s): Marriage WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime Subject(s): Marriage; Wind; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime Last Line: The problem scrunched into her forehead; %the little kissable mouth %with the nail in it Subject(s): Marriage; Wind WINDOW IN A WALL, by MITCHELL LESCARBEAU Poem Source First Line: When with a pettiness derived Last Line: Of their claws, each to each Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage WINE CUP OF NIGHT PLAY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you have amassed the tones-of-wear, of weight lift, a public life Last Line: Beltane festival. Closer in the small bed Subject(s): Marriage WINTER ECHO, by FRADL SHTOK Poem Source First Line: A little sleigh in the white snow Last Line: Buries their wedding-day Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Winter WINTER LIGHT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you fell asleep Last Line: (if I had made a garden. If I had stayed happy.) Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Grief WITCH, by SANTAL Poem Source First Line: I have cut the plaintain grove Last Line: Kill the girls, kill the boys Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Mothers WITCH-WIFE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is neither pink nor pale Last Line: And she never will be all mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WITH A TOAST TO THE BRIDE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They met, they looked, they sighed, they loved Last Line: To substitute for love. Subject(s): Marriage; Toasts; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WITH THIS RING, by SAUL TCHERNIKHOVSKY Poem Source First Line: With this ring I thee charm in the rite Last Line: I thee charm thee forever..Till death do us part Subject(s): Marriage WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WIVES, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think no husband comprehends Last Line: She bears her own, and equal, share. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIVES BY THE DOZEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O death! How thou spoil'st the best project of life! Last Line: Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WOLBROOK JUNCTION HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER WATCHES HIS WIFE ..., by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: And suddenly, leaning into the edible ear Last Line: I fell for her %and sank down, fathomless Subject(s): Marriage; Social Workers WOMAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an element of power Last Line: A careful mother, virtuous wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Housewives; Marriage; Mothers; Parents; Women; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood WOMAN I MARRIED, by EDWIN WAIYAKI Poem Source Last Line: The noise keeps her sane, %they say Subject(s): Marriage WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE'S IN LOVE WITH MY HUSBAND, by AMBER COVERDALE SUMRALL Poem Source First Line: She whispers %into the black Last Line: What I'm missing Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women WOMAN'S WILL, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men dying make their wills - but wives Last Line: The gentle dames have had? Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A' (1), by ALEXANDER ROSS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: The bride cam' out o' the byre Last Line: If I could get but a man!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A' (2), by ALEXANDER ROSS Poem Source First Line: Wooed and married and a' %married and wooed and a' Last Line: Folk need not on frets to be standing %that's wooed and married and a' Subject(s): Marriage 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 WORDS FOR A WEDDING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Free and rejoicing, walk into this prison Last Line: And breathe easy. Finally you are here Subject(s): Marriage WORDS OF THE NEWLY WED WIFE, by WANG CHIEN+(1) Poem Source First Line: The third day I went into the kitchen Last Line: Not yet sure of my mother-in-law's tastes, %I send some first for my sister-in-law to try Subject(s): Marriage WORK, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pushing off on her back out Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WORKER SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breach %in the breath day Last Line: She's a good old pal Subject(s): Marriage WORKS AND DAYS: MARRIAGE, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring not a wife to your home too soon or too late Last Line: Strong you may be, but unripe you'll shrivel away. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WORST OF TIMES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two men agree to swap wives Last Line: These pains in the asses Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Love - Complaints; Marriage WOULD IT HAD PLEASED THE LORD THAT I NEVER WAS BORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Love - Age Differences; Marriage WREATH FOR A BRIDAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full 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 WRITTEN IN FUN FOR MY COUSIN IN CELEBRATION OF HER WEDDING, by XU YUAN Poem Source First Line: In cassia rooms the orchid censer burns brightly Last Line: Bring him round to share a cup with us amidst the flowers Subject(s): Marriage WRITTEN [OR LINES] IN A YOUNG LADY'S ALBUM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty task, miss s -, to ask Last Line: I'm not a single man. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives YE GODS, YOU GAVE ME A WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To obey your will at any time %I'm ready to resign her Subject(s): Marriage YOLANDA OF CYPRUS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the balm, the balm Last Line: Pity should be as strong as love or death Subject(s): Castles; Death; Love; Marriage; Plays And Playwrights; Women 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 GOTTA TAKE OUT MILT, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ran into miss adventure Subject(s): Murder; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives YOUNG COUPLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is open to the turquoise sky Last Line: Charm the blue of their window instead! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives YOUNG WOMAN TO HER HUSBAND, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: They didn't make me sad, the hymns Last Line: To our parents' hot cars and their questions %about what it meant to believe Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Parents ZOO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Push the gesture %far as it will go Last Line: See the animals in the zoo' %& never returns Subject(s): Marriage ZOO-KEEPER'S WIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can stay awake all night, if need be --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Animals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 2. DEATH OF ALTHEETOR, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon over meles' grave the wild flower dropt Last Line: With all her house; and seeks her own acacia grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jews; Love; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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