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Love poems for married people.
Read by Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hrs 49mins)
Featuring poems by Khalil Gibran, Sara Teasdale, Robert Burns, John Keats, Edward Lear, James Weldon Johnson, Lord Byron, Edna St Vincent Millay, Edmund Spenser & many more.
The meeting, the courtship, the wedding and the honeymoon have all now been completed.
Having got this far the real journey lays before every married couple seeking the love, stability, support and joys of a long-term relationship. The state of the newly-weds is now at hand. The meeting of minds and the living together can become a source of friction or ignition to a deeper understanding. Physically the very first blush of lust and desire is replaced by an understanding that life and our own biological and emotional clocks, for some, may now require that children be brought into the mix and families raised.
Yes, that interlude when the bliss of being a newly-wed – announced and seen as such to a wider society – really doesn’t last that long. Time to savour the days and nights of love’s sweet wonder.
Our classic poets, of course, have much to say and advise on. With the storied likes of Christopher Marlowe, Khalil Gibran, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and even George Orwell then the listener is in wise and knowing hands.
In this compilation -
01 - Poems for Newly-Weds - An Introduction
02 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran
03 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale
04 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay
05 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell
06 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi
07 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker
08 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins
09 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit
10 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence
11 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg
12 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats
13 - A Bridal Song by John Ford
14 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
15 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte
16 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood
17 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch
18 - On Love by Khalil Gibran
19 - Two Lovers by George Eliot
20 - Love's Unity by Alfred Austin
21 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin
22 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell
23 - Sonnet 116 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare
24 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell
25 - Beloved by Hafiz
26 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce
27 - Romance by George Orwell
28 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper
29 - Sonnet 143 - Lo, As a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch by Willaim Shakespeare
30 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
31 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
32 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
33 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly
34 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence
35 - Unending Love by Tagore
36 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
37 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats
38 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney
39 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser
40 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
41 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
42 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay
43 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke
44 - Bright Star by John Keats
45 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson
46 - The Good Morrow by John Donne
47 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats
48 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear