Wedding Readings and Poems (Shakespeare William, Browning Elizabeth Barrett, Coleridge Samuel Taylor) ; Macmillan, 2021

Preface
LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY
Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley
from As You Like It William Shakespeare
'How do I love thee?' Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What Is Love Sir Walter Raleigh
Answer to a Child's Question Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from Virginibus Puerisque Robert Louis Stevenson
First Love John Clare 10 Meeting at Night Robert
Browning
My First Love Story Rumi
The Stolen Heart Sir John Suckling
To Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning
A Ditty Sir Philip Sidney
All for Love Lord Byron
from The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
from A Backward Glance Edith Wharton
First Meeting A. S. J. Tessimond
The Call Charlotte Mew
Now Robert Browning
from Plato's Symposium tr. Benjamin Jowett
from The Hunting of Cupid George Peele
Renouncement Alice Meynell
THESE I CAN PROMISE
These I Can Promise Mark Twain
from The Book and the Brotherhood
Iris Murdoch
To a Friend Amy Lowell
Thee, Thee, Only Thee Thomas Moore
from Song of Solomon
To John Middleton Murry Katherine Mansfield
I Will Make You Brooches Robert Louis Stevenson
О Divine star of Heaven John Fletcher
Now You Will Feel No Rain Apache wedding song
The Bait John Donne
'i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) ' E. E.
Cummings
from Love Songs Harriet Monroe
from Song of the Open Road Walt Whitman
from Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W B. Yeats
Marriage Advice Jane Wells
Beauty That is Never Old James Weldon Johnson
Fragment Letitia Elizabeth Landon
from The Princess Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow? Clive James
Since We Parted Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Song-Come, let me take thee to my breast Robert
Burns
I To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
Katherine Philips
The Good-morrow John Donne
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
When You are Old W B. Yeats
To Livy on her thirtieth birthday Mark Twain
Love and Friendship Emily Bronte
from Gift from the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh
'Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art' John
Keats
from Adam Bede George Eliot
An Hour with Thee Sir Walter Scott
Friendship Henry David Thoreau
Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare
from 'Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets'
Christina Rossetti
When Two People Are At One
Marriage Morning Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fidelity D. H. Lawrence
To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet
from The Art of Marriage Wilferd A. Peterson
Love's Omnipresence J. Sylvester
from Endymion: A Poetic Romance John Keats
from Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
from 'The Hours of Afternoon' Emile Verhaeren tr. E S.
Flint
Scaffolding Seamus Heaney
When We Are Old and These Rejoicing Veins Edna St.
Vincent Millay
from Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The True Beauty T. Carew
LOVE IS ENOUGH
from Love is Enough William Morris
A Birthday Christina Rossetti no To Fanny Brawne John
Keats HI
from Colossians
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd Walt Whitman
from Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
If I Were Loved Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from Paradise Lost John Milton
Night Thoughts Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 119
Sonnet
William Shakespeare
First Sight of Her and After Thomas Hardy
When the Heart is Hard Rabindranath Tagore
from Portrait of a Lady Henry James
from Corinthians
from Discourse on the Passion of Love Blaise Pascal tr.
Orlando Williams Wight
House of Dreams Sara Teasdale
Never Marry But For Love William Penn
A Moment Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
WEDDED BLISS
Wedded Bliss Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Love's Garden Katharine Tynan
from Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Wild Nights Emily Dickinson
О Solitude! if I must with thee dwell John Keats
from My Antonia Willa Cather
from Song of Solomon
from To Althea., From Prison Richard Lovelace
Song Christina Rossetti
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear
from The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
Friendship Dinah Maria Craik
Camomile Tea Katherine Mansfield
Love Song Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Jessie Lamont
from Emma Jane Austen
A Spring Morning John Clare
from 'The Bells5 Edgar Allan Poe
from Chamber Music James Joyce
To-night Sara Teas dale
Public Speaking Tips
Index of Poets and Authors
Index of First Lines