Marriage poems
By: selected and edited by John Hollander
Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780679455158
Subjects: Married people; Marriage; Poetry
Notes: "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Courtship and engagement: I shall be married on Monday morning / Anonymous; title: Suitor / Theocritus; title: Her father's house / Anonymous (Bojpuri); title: To her doubts / Edmund Spenser; title: Love in the valley / George Meredith; title: Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear; title: My last duchess / Robert Browning; title: Betrothal / Edna St. Vincent Millay.; title: Weddings: Marriage morning / Alfred, Lord Tennyson; title: Wedding morn / D.E. Lawrence; title: Wedding morning / Thomas Hardy; title: from The song of songs - The bride sings; title: Bride / Rainer Maria Rilke; title: Marriage of Hero and Leander / Musaeus; title: Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor / Anonymous; title: Frog and the mouse / Anonymous; title: Ceremonials / John Donne; title: Hiawatha's wedding-feast / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; title: Wedding out West / Walt Whitman; title: On the marriage of a virgin / Dylan Thomas; title: At the altar-rail / Thomas Hardy; title: For a remarriage / Lucan; title: Upon a second marriage / James Merrill; title: On the two dwarfs that were married at court / Edmund Waller; title: Epithalamium on a late happy marriage / Christopher Smart; title: To a friend on his nuptials / Matthew Prior; title: Wedding toast / Edmund Spenser; title: Wedding night / Edmund Spenser; title: Beauty's soliloquy during her honeymoon / Thomas Hardy; title: Harmony / Richard Crashaw; title: Song ('Now hath Flora fob'd her bowers') / Thomas Campion; title: Wedding-wind / Philip Larkin.; title: Domesticities: Couple / Rosanna Warrwen; title: Eros turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson; title: For poorer / Anonymous (Sanskrit); title: At the dinner-table / Thomas Hardy; title: Question of marriage / Thomas Hardy; title: Question of marriage / Thomas Hardy; title: Painter's wife / D.H. Lawrence; title: Marriage / Moishe Leib Halpern; title: Unpon one Lillie, who married with a maid call'd Rose / Robert Herrick; title: Story of Baucis and Philemon / Ovid; title: from Love / Rachel Hadas; title: She revisits alone the church of her marriage / Thomas Hardy; title: Progress of marriage / Jonathan Swift; title: At tea / Thomas Hardy; title: "To speak of woe that is in marriage" / Robert Lowell; title: Before the birth of one of her children / Anne Bradstreet; title: Discourse / John Milton; title: Telephone / Robert Frost; title: Upon Jolly and Jilly / Robert Herrick; title: Modern marriage / George Meredith; title: Nuptial sleep / Dante Gabriel Rossetti; title: Witch-wife / Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: Hill wife / Robert Frost; title: Householder / Robert Browning; title: Tithonus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson.; title: Anniversaries: Silver wedding / Arthur Hugh Clough; title: Second ring / Samuel Bishop; title: Jeane / William Barnes; title: On an anniversary / Donald Justice; title: On a wedding anniversary / Dylan Thomas; title: Marriage / Yvor Winters; title: Commemoration / Edwin Muir; title: To my wife / J.V. Cunningham; title: John Anderson my Jo / Robert Burns; title: Epitaph upon husband and wife who died and were buried together / Richard Crashaw.; title: Adulteries: Foolish marriage vow / John Dryden; title: Menelaus and Helen / Rupert Brooke; title: Wraggle taggle gipsies / Anonymous; title: My mother made me marry / Anonymous (Spanish); title: Flower-girl / Anonymous (Indian); title: Art of deceiving a husband / Ovid; title: In the restaurant / Thomas Hardy; title: Guests for dinner / George Meredith; title: Harp song of the Dane women / Rudyard Kipling; title: Triangle / George Meredith; title: Adultery / James Dickey; title: Jus primae noctis / Robert Graves.; title: Separations: Valediction: forbidding mourning; title: Longing for the Emperor / Empress Iwa No Hime; title: World as meditation / Wallace Stevens; title: Parting / Chiang Yen; title: On leaving his wife / Kakinomoto Hitomaro; title: Letter to her husband, absent upon public employment / Anne Bradstreet; title: River-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound; title: Wife's lament / Anonymous (Anglo-Saxon); title: Penelope in doubt / Edwin Muir; title: For both of you, the divorce being final / John Hollander; title: For Anastasia's grave / Julian (Prefect of Egypt); title: In a London flat / Thomas Hardy; title: Cornelia from the grave to her husband / Propertius; title: On his dead wife / Henry King; title: Reuben bright / Edwin Arlington Robinson; title: Benjamin Pantier / Edgar Lee Masters; title: Mrs. Benjamin Pantier / Edgar Lee Masters; title: Widow's hymn / George Wither; title: Song of the widow / Rainer Maria Rilke; title: Widower / Rudyard Kipling; title: Widow's song / Edward Coute Pinkney; title: Complaint / James Wright; title: Over the coffin / Thomas Hardy; title: Methought / John Milton.; title: Symbolic marriages: Life is motion / Wallace Stevens; title: Marriage of earth and heaven / Jay MacPherson; title: World stands solemner to me / Emily Dickinson; title: New wife / Omar Khayyam; title: Married sounds / William Shakespeare; title: South garden / Li Ho; title: Jane's marriage / Rudyard Kipling; title: For a marriage of St. Catherine by Memling / Dante Gabriel Rossetti; title: Title divine / Emily Dickinson.; title: For and against marriage: "No cause or just impediment" / William Shakespeare; title: Dreariest journey / Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick; title: Real and true and sure / Robert Browning; title: Need of posterity / William Shakespeare; title: Word against wives / Sir Philip Sidney; title: Wasted beauty / William Shakespeare; title: Warning to a wife / Martial; title: Marriage of souls / William Carlos Williams; title: Marriage / Gregory Corso; title: Call it a good marriage / Robert Graves; title: Toward a definition of marriage / Mona Van Duyn; title: Way things are / Lucretius; title: Marriages / Philip Larkin.