Wedding Readings

The poems and passages couples have chosen for centuries — on devotion, partnership, and the vow to love against time.

Words for the day itself

In this collection

• The Wind of Sorrow (Sonnets)
• Human Feelings
• The Broken Sword
• Vittoria
• Art thou the topmost apple
• The Sack of the Gods
• Nonsense Drolleries
• Ezra Pound
• Miss Ophelia Gledd
• Impelled
• Vale
• Destruction of Jerusalem
• Stratford-On-Avon
• We Have Loved of Yore
• For an Autumn Festival
• The Model Farm (Rhymes for the Times)
• Abisag
• The World's Need
• Song, from Abdelazar
• InTime
• Young Peggy Blooms
• Will Ye Go to the Indies, my Mary?
• John Anderson, my Jo
• My Eppie Adair
• A Bridal Song

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