| Description |
x, 116 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Love is Enough / William Morris -- 'That is the true season of love' / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- A Spring Morning / John Clare -- 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds' / William Shakespeare -- The Master Speed / Robert Frost -- 'If love is chaste' / Michelangelo -- 'No love, to love of man and wife' / Richard Eedes -- A Marriage / Mark Twain -- And man and woman are like the earth, that brings forth flowers' / D.H. Lawrence -- Changes / Mary-Ann Tracey -- 'Live you by love confined' / C. Day Lewis -- Wedding Day / Adrian Lomas -- Friendship / Elizabeth Jennings -- 'Love is more thicker than forget' / E.E. Cummings -- 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Amo Ergo Sum / Kathleen Raine -- 'Never above you' / Walter Winchell -- A Dedication to My Wife / T.S. Eliot -- To My Dear and Loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet -- 'Only our love hath no decay' / John Donne -- I Love Thee / Thomas Hood -- The Confirmation / Edwin Muir -- 'Is it for now or for always' / Philip Larkin -- Hinterhof / James Fenton -- Love Not Me / John Wilbye -- 'I carry your heart with me' / E.E. Cummings -- Love Song / Mary Carolyn Davies -- 'I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz' / Pablo Neruda -- A Birthday / Christina Rossetti -- The Bargain / Philip Sidney -- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven / W.B. Yeats -- The Good-Morrow / John Donne -- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' / William Shakespeare -- ' ... winter will seek us, my love' / Pablo Neruda -- Wedding / Alice Oswald -- I Love You / Roy Croft -- 'You and I' / Kuan Tao-Sheng -- I Would Live in Your Love / Sara Teasdale -- 'Everything that touches us, me and you' / Rainer Maria Rilke -- 'If thou must love me, let it be for nought' / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Line from a Notebook -- February 1807 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Beauty that is Never Old / James Weldon Johnson -- 'Sensual pleasure passes' / Voltaire -- The Dance / Wendell Berry -- 'O my luve's like a red, red rose' / Robert Burns -- These I Can Promise / Mark Twain -- Reply / Naomi Long Madgett -- Love's Insight / Robert Winnett -- Touch the Air Softly / William Jay Smith -- Relationships / Elizabeth Jennings -- 'I loved you first' / Christina Rossetti -- Song / Edwin Muir -- 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes' / William Shakespeare -- 'I want to be your friend' / The Yuch-Fu -- Last Love / Fyodor Tyutchev -- 'From this day forward' / Anonymous -- O Tell Me the Truth above Love / W.H. Auden -- To Wed or Not to Wed / Una Marson -- 'I may by degrees dwindle into a wife' / William Congreve -- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time / Robert Herrick -- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat / Edward Lear -- 'O Donald! Ye are just the man' / Susanna Blamire -- The Author to His Wife, of a Woman's Eloquence / John Harington -- I'll Still be Loving You / C. David Hay -- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love / Christopher Marlowe -- The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd / Walter Ralegh -- From the Irish / Ian Duhig -- Love is ... / Adrian Henri -- The Female of the Species / Rudyard Kipling -- Always Marry an April Girl / Ogden Nash -- I'll be There / Louise Cuddon -- No Mistake / Martha Simms -- 'No young lady should fall in love, till the offer has been made' / Charlotte Bronte -- A Word to Husbands / Ogden Nash -- Valentine / Wendy Cope -- The Ten Properties a Horse Shares with a Woman / John Fitzherbert -- 'An April state of smiles and tears' / Charles Dickens -- On Marriage / Kahlil Gibran -- 'Silent unspeakable memories' / George Eliot -- Love is Giving / Anonymous -- When Two People are at One / The I. Ching -- The Art of Marriage / Anonymous -- For a Wedding / Kate Clanchy -- On Your Wedding Day / Anonymous -- 'Now you will feel no rain' / Traditional Apache prayer -- 'The love of God, unutterable and perfect' / Dante -- 'Dear friends, let us love one another' / The First Letter of John -- 'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels' / Corinthians -- Unlimited Friendliness / The Buddhist scriptures -- 'May you have been words on a cold evening' / Irish Toast |
| Summary |
"When attending friends' weddings - and because she's an actress - Julia Watson has often been asked to read a poem. In the same way, many people have asked her for ideas about what to choose. In this book, she has collected over ninety poems and readings for weddings."--Jacket |
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Weddings -- Poetry.
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Love poetry.
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Marriage -- Literary collections.
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Marriage -- Poetry.
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Love -- Poetry.
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Weddings -- Literary collections.
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Love -- Literary collections.
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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Poetry.
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Love poetry.
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Love poetry.
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Poetry.
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Literature.
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| Author |
Watson, Julia.
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| ISBN |
0141014954 paperback |
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