Marriage poems

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Aurora Leigh: Book Fourth

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


  She, at that,
Looked blindly in his face, as when one looks
Through driving autumn-rains to find the sky.
He went on speaking.

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Aurora Leigh: Book Three

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"To-day thou girdest up thy loins thyself
And goest where thou wouldest: presently
Others shall gird thee," said the Lord, "to go
Where thou wouldst not." He spoke to Peter thus,
To signify the death which he should die
When crucified head downward.

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Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto II

© Samuel Butler

Next him his Son and Heir Apparent
Succeeded, though a lame vicegerent;
Who first laid by the Parliament,
The only crutch on which he leant;
And then sunk underneath the State,
That rode him above horseman's weight.

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Some Account Of A New Play

© Richard Harris Barham

Tavistock Hotel, Nov. 1839.
Dear Charles,
- In reply to your letter, and Fanny's,
Lord Brougham, it appears, isn't dead,- though Queen Anne is;
'Twas a 'plot' and a 'farce'- you hate farces, you say -
Take another 'plot,' then, viz. the plot of a Play.

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Black Lizzie

© Henry Kendall

But let them pass! To right your wrong,
 Aspasia of the ardent South,
Your poet means to sing a song
 With some prolixity of mouth.

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Don Juan: Canto The Fourth

© George Gordon Byron

Nothing so difficult as a beginning

In poesy, unless perhaps the end;

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The Kalevala - Rune XXVI

© Elias Lönnrot

ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.


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On The Consequences Of Happy Marriages

© George Moses Horton

Hail happy pair from whom such raptures rise,
On whom I gaze with pleasure and surprize;
From thy bright rays the gloom of strife is driven,
For all the smiles of mutual love are Heaven.

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The Marriage of Sir Gawaine

© Thomas Percy

King Arthur lives in merry Carleile,
And seemely is to see;
And there with him queene Guenever,
That bride soe bright of blee.

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Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth

© George Gordon Byron

I now mean to be serious;--it is time,

  Since laughter now-a-days is deem'd too serious.

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Dum Vivimus

© Madison Julius Cawein

I.

  Now with the marriage of the lip and beaker

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Sonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Vakzy, James Joyce, Et A

© Delmore Schwartz

Let me not, ever, to the marriage in Cana

Of Galilee admit the slightest sentiment

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Stanzas - To the Memory of an agreeable Lady, buried in marriage to a Person undeserving her

© William Shenstone

'Twas always held, and ever will,
By sage mankind, discreeter
To anticipate a lesser ill
Than undergo a greater.

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Ouija

© Sylvia Plath

It is a chilly god, a god of shades,

Rises to the glass from his black fathoms.

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The Season

© Alfred Austin

So sings the river through the summer days,
And I, submissive, follow what I praise.
What if my boyish blood would rather stay
Where lawns invite, where bonnibels delay,
Though but a youth and not averse from these,
To conflict called, I abdicate my ease,

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The Birth Of Flattery

© George Crabbe

Muse of my Spenser, who so well could sing

The passions all, their bearings and their ties;

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Alice And Una. A Tale Of Ceim-An-Eich

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

With a sigh for what is fading, but, O Earth! with no upbraiding,
For we feel that time is braiding newer, fresher flowers for thee,
We will speak, despite our grieving, words of loving and believing,
Tales we vowed when we were leaving awful Ceim-an-eich,
Where the sever'd rocks resemble fragments of a frozen sea,
And the wild deer flee!

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Hero And Leander: The First Sestiad

© Christopher Marlowe

On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood,

In view and opposite two cities stood,

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Book Seventh [Residence in London]

© William Wordsworth

  Returned from that excursion, soon I bade
Farewell for ever to the sheltered seats
Of gowned students, quitted hall and bower,
And every comfort of that privileged ground,
Well pleased to pitch a vagrant tent among
The unfenced regions of society.

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Metamorphoses: Book The Third

© Ovid

  The End of the Third Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands