Marriage Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) [Hardcover]

John Hollander (Author)

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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Publication Date: April 29, 1997

A sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony: courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Shakespeare to Omar Khayyám to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn. From the rapturous infatuation of the Song of Songs to Ovid's cynical advice on 'The Art of Deceiving a Husband,' no facet of the matrimonial state remains unexplored.

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Jeane by William Barnes
The Bride Sings (song Of Songs. [king James Version]) by Bible
To His Wife On 16th Anniversary Of Wedding Day, With A Ring by Samuel Bishop
Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet
A Letter To Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment by Anne Bradstreet
Menelaus And Helen by Rupert Brooke
Epilogue: The Householder by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
The Real And True And Sure by Robert Browning
John Anderson by Robert Burns
Song: Roses by Thomas Campion
Parting by Chiang Yen
Silver Wedding by Arthur Hugh Clough
Marriage by Gregory Corso
A Marriage Ring by George Crabbe
An Epitaph Upon Husband And Wife Who Died And Were Buried by Richard Crashaw
Epithalamion by Richard Crashaw
To My Wife by James Vincent Cunningham
Adultery by James Dickey
Title Divine - Is Mine! by Emily Dickinson
The Anniversary [anniversarie] by John Donne
Epithalamion: 3. Raysing Of The Bridegroom by John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
Marriage A La Mode: Song by John Dryden
Marriage A-la-mode: Song by John Dryden
For Anastasia's Grave by Flavius Claudius Julianus
The Hill Wife: House Fear by Robert Frost
The Hill Wife: Loneliness by Robert Frost
The Hill Wife: The Impulse by Robert Frost
The Hill Wife: The Oft-repeated Dream by Robert Frost
The Hill Wife: The Smile by Robert Frost
The Telephone by Robert Frost
Call It A Good Marriage by Robert Ranke Graves
Jus Primae Noctis by Robert Ranke Graves
Love 10 by Rachel Hadas
Love 2 by Rachel Hadas
Love 8 by Rachel Hadas
The Marriage by Moyshe-leyb Halpern
At The Dinner Table by Thomas Hardy
A Beauty's Soliloquy During Her Honeymoon by Thomas Hardy
In A London Flat by Thomas Hardy
A Question Of Marriage by Thomas Hardy
Satires Of Circumstance: 1. At Tea by Thomas Hardy
Satires Of Circumstance: 11. In The Restaurant by Thomas Hardy
Satires Of Circumstance: 9. At The Altar-rail by Thomas Hardy
She Revisits Alone The Church Of Her Marriage by Thomas Hardy
The Wedding Morning by Thomas Hardy
To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick
Upon Jolly And Jilly by Robert Herrick
Upon One Lillie, Who Marryed With Maid Call'd Rose by Robert Herrick
For Both Of You, The Divorce Being Final by John Hollander
Longing For The Emperor by Iwa No Hime
On An Anniversary by Donald Justice
On Leaving His Wife by Kakinomoto Hitomaro
On His Dead Wife by Henry (1592-1669) King
Harp Song Of The Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
Jane's Marriage by Rudyard Kipling
The Widower by Rudyard Kipling
Marriages by Philip Larkin
Wedding-wind by Philip Larkin
The Painter's Wife by David Herbert Lawrence
Wedding Morn by David Herbert Lawrence
Lady Jingly! Lady Jingly! by Edward Lear
South Garden by Li Ho
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
The Song Of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sumptuous Was The Feast Nokomis by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
'to Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage' by Robert Lowell
For A Remarriage (of Cato And Marcia) by Lucan
The Marriage Of Earth And Heaven by Jay Macpherson
Warning To A Wife by Marcus Valerius Martialis
Spoon River Anthology: Benjamin Pantier by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Mrs. Benjamin Pantier by Edgar Lee Masters
Guests For Dinner by George Meredith
Love In The Valley (version A) by George Meredith
Modern Love: 1 by George Meredith
The Owl And The Pussy Cat by George Meredith
The Triangle by George Meredith
For A Second Marriage by James Ingram Merrill
The Betrothal by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Witch-wife by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Discourse; Eve Speaks To Adam by John Milton
Sonnet: 23. On His Deceased Wife by John Milton
The Commemoration by Edwin Muir
Penelope In Doubt by Edwin Muir
Hero And Leander: The Marriage Of Hero And Leander by Grammaticus Musaeus
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 57 by Omar Khayyam
The Widow's Song by Edward Coate Pinkney
To A Friend On His Nuptials by Matthew Prior
Cornelia From The Grave To Her Husband by Sextus Propertius
The Art Of Deceiving A Husband by Publius Ovidius Naso
Constant Penelope Sends To Thee, Careless Ulysses by Publius Ovidius Naso
The Story Of Baucis And Philemon by Publius Ovidius Naso
The Bride by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Voices: The Song Of The Widow by Rainer Maria Rilke
Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Reuben Bright by Edwin Arlington Robinson
For A Marriage Of Saint Katherine [or, Catherine] by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House Of Life: 6a. Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sonnet: 116 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 3 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 8 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 9 by William Shakespeare
The Dreariest Journey by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Word Against Wives by Philip Sidney
Epithalamium On A Late Happy Marriage by Christopher Smart
Amoretti: 65 by Edmund Spenser
Wedding Night by Edmund Spenser
Life Is Motion by Wallace Stevens
The World As Meditation by Wallace Stevens
The Progress Of Marriage by Jonathan Swift
Tithonus by Alfred Tennyson
The Window; Or, The Song Of The Wrens: Marriage Morning by Alfred Tennyson
The Suitor (idyll 23) by Theocritus
On A Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas
On The Marriage Of A Virgin by Dylan Thomas
The Way Things Are by Titus Lucretius Carus
The Flower-girl by Anonymous
For Poorer by Anonymous
The Frog And The Mouse by Anonymous
Her Father's House by Anonymous
I Shall Be Married On Monday Morning by Anonymous
Lord Thomas And Fair Eleanor by Anonymous
My Mother Made Me Marry by Anonymous
The Wife's Lament by Anonymous
The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies by Anonymous
Toward A Definition Of Marriage by Mona Van Duyn
On The Two Dwarfs That Were Married At Court by Edmund Waller
Couple (for Isabel Archer) by Rosanna Warren
A Wedding Out West by Walt Whitman
A Wedding Toast by Richard Wilbur
The Marriage Of Souls by William Carlos Williams
The Marriage by Yvor Winters
A Widow's Hymn by George Wither
Complaint by James Wright
Over Thge Coffin by James Wright
Weddings by William Butler Yeats
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sparking collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony--courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Ovid and Omar Khayyam to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (April 29, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679455159
• ISBN-13: 978-0679455158
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.7 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,041,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent collection, January 20, 2006

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This review is from: Marriage Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

This is a nice collection of poems about marriage. The poems are thematically organized, from courtship, to the wedding day, to separations, etc. It is not a collection of love poems. The editor draws from many eras and a handful of languages. This collection contains anonymous traditional songs, and works by Spenser, Hardy, Rilke, Larkin, and others.

3.0 out of 5 stars Marriage in its True Forms, October 16, 2011

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This review is from: Marriage Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

Hollander does a great job of organizing these poems into various themes. I did not read every single one, but I enjoyed those that I had to read for class and would recommend this to anyone really likes poetry. The poems vary from long to short, complicated to sing-songy, and in that reflect marriage itself. They really made me think about my relationship and where I want to end up in 20 years.