Be inspired for a speical occasion

Read by David Shaw-Parker, Liza Ross, Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 01:05mins)

Featuring stories by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, John Ford, James Madison Bell, William Cowper & many more

The wedding. The legal and public union of two people.

A very simple concept and one we all, at one time or another, have thought about.

In life that’s the easy part.

The difficult part is the ceremony, not for the dewy-eyed couple, family and friends but for those who are now called to stand and offer words of tribute, of jest and of satisfaction with the couple, on their past lives and future happiness.

Even the most socially hardened are certain nerves will fray and know the importance of confidence and delivery at this unique moment. Expectations are high and a badly punch-lined joke or story has the glaring eyes of the room upon you.

In this volume our classic and well-loved poets take the work out of words and offer up lines and verse of unrivalled beauty, telling knowledge and the comfort of love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, W B Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Khalil Gibran are but a handful of the poets who will speak for you and on behalf of us all.

01 - 50 Poems to Read at Weddings - An Introduction

02 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

03 - A Bridal Song by John Ford

04 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell

05 - June, a Tale by William Cowper

06 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly

07 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson

08 - Beloved by Hafiz

09 - Bright Star by John Keats

10 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker

11 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke

12 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence

13 - First Love by John Clare

14 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller

15 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats

16 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

17 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

18 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

19 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

20 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar

21 - I Shall Not Place You In My Heart by Shams Tabrizi

22 - Love is Enough by William Morris

23 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay

02 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley

25 - Love's Unity by Alfred Austin

26 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges

27 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney

28 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson

29 - Oh Lovers by Jalaluddin Rumi

30 - On Love by Khalil Gibran

31 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran

32 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser

33 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

34 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran

35 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare

36 - Sonnet 116 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare

37 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson

38 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell

39 - The Good Morrow by John Donne

40 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

41 - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

42 - The Sunne Rising by John Donne

43 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

44 - To the Beloved by Alice Meynell

45 - Unending Love by Tagore

46 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit

47 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi

48 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay

49 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats

50 - Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight by Christopher Marlowe

51 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson