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Read by Ghizela Rowe, Stella Gonet & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins)
Featuring poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, Tagore, Emily Dickinson, WB Yeats & more.
Whilst those of us old enough to remember the sixties might have thought weddings would become obsolete for all but the faithful, they still seem for the majority of us to be the benchmark, the gold standard of a relationship.
This symbol of love, commitment and sacrifice between two people, albeit for most, no longer mirroring the union between God and His Church, endures. Others have found other words with which to celebrate, share and state their love, their spiritual and emotional commitment in front of family, friends and the wider world.
This wide-ranging and inclusive volume contains some of the most beautiful verses ever created in the English language from some of its greatest classic poetical voices including Shakespeare, John Donne, John Keats, Edna St Vincent Millay and Sara Teasdale.
Whether conventional, convenient or gimmicky, love is the theme and the feeling and used to offer the vows without focusing on the religious but still providing the personal and universal of that very mysterious emotion, love.
In this compilation -
1 - The Poetry of Weddings - An Introduction |
2 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
3 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
4 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson |
5 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges |
6 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe |
7 - The Sunne Rising by John Donne |
8 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson |
9 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
10 - A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns |
11 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly |
12 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller |
13 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran |
14 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence |
15 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare |
16 - She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron |
17 - Beauty That Is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson |
18 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay |
19 - Bright Star by John Keats |
20 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke |
21 - Unending Love by Tagore |
22 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
23 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats |
24 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser |
25 - To One Persuading a Lady To Marriage by Katherine Phillips |
26 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker |
27 - Marriage Morning by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
28 - The Wedding Morning by Francis Ledwidge |
29 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit |
30 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi |
31 - A Wedding Song by Jean Inglelow |
32 - A Bridal Song by John Ford |
33 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell |
34 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
35 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear |
36 - The Bride by Henry Alford |
37 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg |
38 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick |
39 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
40 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar |
41 - Beloved by Hafiz |
42 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
43 - June, a Tale by William Cowper |
44 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell |
45 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare |
46 - The Good Morrow by John Donne |
47 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet |
48 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch |
49 - Sonnet To My Wife by Thomas Hood |
50 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti |
51 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale |
52 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay |
53 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell |
54 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney |
55 - An Extract Of The Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte |
56 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats |
57 - The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier September the 27th 1868 by Sidney Lanier |
58 - Wife to Husband by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
59 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats |
60 - The Bride by Rainer Maria Rilke |
61 - On Love by Khalil Gibran |
62 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran |