title: Treasury of Wedding Poems, Quotations, and Short Stories
author: Rosemary Fox
description: Wedding Gifts, Sels. <i>by S. Y. Agnon</i><br /> The Bride <i>by Bella Akhmadulina</i><br /> The Worn Wedding-ring <i>by William Cox Bennett</i><br /> Happy Marriage <i>by Thomas Blacklock</i><br /> Wedding Feast <i>by Amy Bower</i><br /> To My Dear And Loving Husband <i>by Anne Bradstreet</i><br /> New Poems: 8 <i>by Edward Estlin Cummings</i><br /> Marriage Poem <i>by Sapardi Djoko Damono</i><br /> Come Live %with Me, And Be My Love <i>by John Donne</i><br /> A Father's Wedding Poem To His Son <i>by Joseph Ezobi</i><br /> To My Bride <i>by Janos Garay</i><br /> Wedding Song <i>by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</i><br /> At The Savory Chapel <i>by Robert Ranke Graves</i><br /> Chosen Of Bridegrooms <i>by Yehuda Halevi</i><br /> Any Wife Or Husband <i>by Carol Haynes</i><br /> At The Wedding March <i>by Gerard Manley Hopkins</i><br /> The Wedding Gift <i>by Minna Irving</i><br /> Wedding Celebration <i>by Tenrai Kono</i><br /> My Mayday Bride <i>by Vilhelm Krag</i><br /> Bride's Mother <i>by Christie Lund</i><br /> Bridal Day <i>by Compton Mackenzie</i><br /> Here Love His Golden Shafts Employs, Here Lights <i>by John Milton</i><br /> Village For A Wedding <i>by Jan Boleslaw Ozog</i><br /> The Wedding <i>by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak</i><br /> Hear The Mellow Wedding Bells <i>by Edgar Allan Poe</i><br /> Hear The Mellow Wedding Bells <i>by Edgar Allan Poe</i><br /> The Moon's Bed, The Bride's Bed <i>by W. S. Rendra</i><br /> A Bride Song <i>by Christina Georgina Rossetti</i><br /> Wedding Season <i>by Johan Ludvig Runeberg</i><br /> Bride <i>by George Sarandaris</i><br /> Man And Wife <i>by Shin Shalom</i><br /> This And More <i>by Glenn Siebert</i><br /> The Bride <i>by Edith Sodergran</i><br /> The Rain's Marriage <i>by Marcia Southwick</i><br /> Wedding Pillow <i>by Kim Sowol</i><br /> Of The Night, Let The Bridegroom Sing <i>by Publius Papinius Statius</i><br /> Bride Waltz <i>by Evert Taube</i><br /> Proposal <i>by Bayard Taylor</i><br /> With This Ring <i>by Saul Tchernikhovsky</i><br /> On The Marriage Of A Virgin <i>by Dylan Thomas</i><br /> The Mariage Cake <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> Ode To A Bridegroom <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> Old Senryu Collections, Sels. <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> To The Bride <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> To The Bridegroom <i>by Anonymous</i><br /> Marriage Song <i>by William Thomas Walsh</i><br /> The Marriage <i>by Yvor Winters</i><br /> --Table of Poems
zlib_text: _Married in white, you've chosen all right;_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Married in blue, your love is true._
  
  
  
  
  
  _Married in green, you'll not long be seen..._
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  \--Traditional wedding rhyme.
  
  
  
  
  
  _Buckley Township, Michigan, 1932_
  
  
  
  
  
  Frances Brown--soon to be Frances Healy, assuming the minister showed up and
  was still willing to perform the ceremony with her in her current condition--
  turned to study her profile in the bedroom mirror, smoothing her dress down
  over her swollen stomach with the heels of her hands. “I feel like just about
  every cautionary tale in the book right now,” she said, to no one in
  particular. “Don’t talk to strange men who hunt monsters, little girl, or
  you’ll wind up pregnant, unmarried, and stranded in Michigan.”
  
  
  
  
  
  The mice, who had been sitting on the bed watching her raptly for the past
  several hours, let out a cheer. Fran sighed.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Guess I just committed another proverb,” she said, and turned away from the
  mirror, leveling a finger at the enthusiastic rode