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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


50-STRING LUTE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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 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 BLESSING FOR A WEDDING, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 STORY AS WET AS TEARS, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ON EARTH, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem 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 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 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


ABDUCTOR, by TERRANCE HAYES    Poem 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 Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't lock me in wedlock, I want
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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


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 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 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 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 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


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 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 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


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 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 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


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 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: 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 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 HYMENEAL DIALOGUE: BRIDE AND GROOM, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, my love, since hymen ti'd
Last Line: Each by contraction multipli'd.
Subject(s): Weddings;; 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


AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON    Poem 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


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


ANGELUS, by BRIAN TEARE    Poem 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


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


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


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


ARGUING BARTUSIAK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem 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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is erroneous
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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


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 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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


BLACK RANALD, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the time when the little flowers are born
Last Line: And kisses her first, a bride!
Subject(s): Kidnapping; Rescues; Love; Weddings


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 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 ROADS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the cottage, cold and white
Last Line: And led her home a bride!
Subject(s): Courtship; Weddings


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 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 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 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'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


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


BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not think the ending can be right
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BY CANDLE'S LIGHT A BEDOUIN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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 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


CANDLELIGHT, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem 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 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


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


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


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


CHATEAU IF, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If love if then if now if the flowers of if the conditional
Subject(s): Weddings


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


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


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


CLIMBS A TOWER AS IN A TALE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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


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 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


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


COMMON LAW, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


COMPLAINT, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She's gone. She was my love, my moon or more
Last Line: And now lies down, who was my moon or more
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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


CONTEST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem 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


COPE'S RULE, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem 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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They married out of school
Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives


COUPLE (FOR ISABEL ARCHER), by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You turn to the window, and whatever it was
Last Line: We are left with mere afternoon, in a daze
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


COURTESY, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an afternoon toward the end of august
Subject(s): Weddings; Basketball


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


CRAZY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem 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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark eyed, / o woman of my dreams
Subject(s): Marriage; Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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


DAYS OF '74, by MARK JARMAN    Poem 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


DEAR MRS. BERRIGAN, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem 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 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


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


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


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


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 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 LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem 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 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


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


DREAM OF LIGHT IN THE SHADE, by RUTH STONE    Poem 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


EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem 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


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


ED, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ed was in love with a cocktail waitress
Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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


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 HUSBAND, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem 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 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


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 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


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 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 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 [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 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 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: 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


EQUINOX 1980, by PETER DAVISON    Poem 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


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


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 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


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


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


FAIR ELEANOR, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the birds were mating and building
Last Line: I ween, to answer a word!
Subject(s): Spinning; Weddings; Love


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 ROMANCE, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem 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


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


FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem 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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I made it cross country
Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Cancer (disease); Reconciliation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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


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 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 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 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 BOTH OF YOU, THE DIVORCE BEING FINAL, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot celebrate with doleful music
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FOR FRAN, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem 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 J.W., ON HIS MARRIAGE IN THE FAITH, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem 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 Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some simple
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FOR MY HUSBAND, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a dream
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FOR RICHER, FOR POORER, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem 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 Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night in a toughtful
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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


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


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


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


GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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


GETTING TO KNOW YOU, by RUTH STONE    Poem 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: & smash a glass
Last Line: O smash the glass
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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


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 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


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


HALF-EATEN, by JAMES TATE    Poem 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


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 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 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


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


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


HER SURE JOY, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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 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


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: 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 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


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 MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem 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


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


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


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 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


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 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 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 MARRIED YOU, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem 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, I REMEMBER, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Memory; Wedding


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 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


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 EVER THERE WAS ONE, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem 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 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


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 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 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 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 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 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 TAXI TO THE MRI, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem 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 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 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 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


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


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


IUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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


JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem 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, 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


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


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 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


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


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


KISSING AGAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kissing again, after a long drought of
Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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


LIFE 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


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 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


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


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 2, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Used to each other to the point that we
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LOVE 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 FOR A HAND, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem 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 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'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


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


MAGNOLIA, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mayor, in order to marry us, borrowed
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MAIDEN NAME, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marrying left your maiden name disused
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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 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


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


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


MARKS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband gives me an a
Subject(s): Judgments; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should I get married? Should I be good?
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MARRIAGE, by 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 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 (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 COUNSEL, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why marry ogre
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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 SONG; WITH COMMENTARY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem 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-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 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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't want it, you wanted it
Subject(s): Marriage; Reality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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: 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 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


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


MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem 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 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


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


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


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


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


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: 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


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


MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem 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 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


MR. AND MRS. JACK SPRAT IN THE KITCHEN, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem 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


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 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 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 GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem 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 TAKES SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ME, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem 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 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 SECOND MARRIAGE TO MY FIRST HUSBAND, by ALICE FULTON    Poem 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'S UPSTAIRS, by IRA SADOFF    Poem 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


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 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


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 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


NIKOS AT 42, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today's like yesterday
Subject(s): Idleness; Marriage; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief
Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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


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 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 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


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! 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 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 Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here from his prominent but thankfully
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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 WEDDING, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! How the bells ring, how happy the day
Last Line: And all that she wish'd to receive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is torn across
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON AN ANNIVERSARY, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty years and more go by
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 TWO DWARFS THAT WERE MARRIED AT COURT, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Design, or chance, makes others wive
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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 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 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


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


PAINTED WIVES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem 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


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


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 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'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


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


PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem 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 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


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


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 IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS), by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem 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


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 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


PORK, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem 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


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 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


PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem 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


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


PROTHALAMION, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem 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


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


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


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


RAIN EFFECT, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem 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


READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem 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


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


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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say 'bells' say 'buckskin leggings' say 'drumstick' say 'domestic' say
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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


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


SCORN, by CAROL FROST    Poem 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


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


SECLUSION, CONCEALMENT & VEILING, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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 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


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


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 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


SHADOWBOXING, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem 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


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


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


SHOPPING SPREE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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


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


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


SLEF-HELP, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What kind of delusion are you under?
Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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 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


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


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 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 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: 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 SEA CHILDREN: 60, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once of a northern midnight
Last Line: You were a prince's bride.
Subject(s): Weddings


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 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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


SPRING 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 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 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


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


STREET OF HUMAN BODIES, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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


SUNDAY RADIO, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem 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


SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem 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


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 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


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 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


TEN SONGS: 4, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem 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


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 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


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 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 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 ARK UPON HIS SHOULDERS, by FORREST GANDER    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 BLUE ROBE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How joyful to be together, alone
Subject(s): Weddings


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 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 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-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 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 CEREMONY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wedding veils are oppressing them
Subject(s): Weddings


THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 EPITHALAMIUM OF HELEN AND MENELAUS;, by NOBLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve spartan virgins, noble, young, and fair
Subject(s): Weddings; Helen Of Troy;


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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 MARRIAGE, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Incarnate for our marriage you appeared
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW, by SABINE BARING-GOULD    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cried over humpty-dumpty
Last Line: I think of mynas
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Children; Eggs; Racial Equality; 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


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'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


THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem 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


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 LIP, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 JUDITH, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now by a ritual of legality
Subject(s): Marriage; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moving and moaning / under our coverings
Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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 Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is late, my heart
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TOWARD A DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is to make a fill, not find a land
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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


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


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 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


TWENTY-YEAR MARRIAGE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY    Poem 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


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 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 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


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


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


UNION, by RUTH STONE    Poem 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


WATER CAN ONLY WRAP ME BUT LIFE MUST HOLD ME, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem 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


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 (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, 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 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 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 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-WIND, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blew all my wedding-day
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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 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 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 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 SHROUDS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem 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


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


WIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem 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 LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've had a couple the oblique way
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem 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 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


WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime
Subject(s): Marriage; Wind; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


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'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


WORK, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pushing off on her back out
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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


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


YOU GOTTA TAKE OUT MILT, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem 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


ZOO-KEEPER'S WIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem 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