The Wedding-Day: From 'Epithalamion' by Edmund Spenser

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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)

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The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as cautions and complaints; lovers; love's power; and wedded love. Summary by Tomas Peter.

Listen next episodes of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2):
A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous , Connubial Life: From 'The Seasons: Spring' by James Thomson , Darby and Joan by Frederic Edward Weatherly , Dolcino to Margaret by Charles Kingsley , Faith and Hope by Rembrandt Peale , If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love by Reginald Heber , John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns , Laodamia by William Wordsworth , Love Lightens Labor by Anonymous , My Ain Wife by Alexander Laing , My Heart Is a Lute by Lady Lindsay , My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing by Robert Burns , Not Ours the Vows by Bernard Barton , O Lay Thy Hand in Mine, Dear! by Gerald Massey , Possession by Bayard Taylor , Possession by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) , Reunited Love by Richard Doddridge Blackmore , She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth , Song: From an Old Song, 'Woo'd and Married and A'' by Joanna Baillie , The Bride: From 'A Ballad Upon a Wedding' by Sir John Suckling , The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns by Robert Burns , The Eggs and the Horses: A Matrimonial Epic by Anonymous , The Fire of Love: From the 'Examen Miscellaneum,' 1708 by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset , The Golden Wedding by David Gray , The Newly-Wedded by Winthrop Mackworth Praed , The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes , The Poet's Bridal-Day Song by Allan Cunningham , The Poet's Song to His Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) , The Retort by George Pope Morris , The Worn Wedding-Ring by William Cox Bennett , There's Nae Luck About the House by Jean Adam , Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie by Allan Cunningham , 'Till Death Us Part' by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , Woman's Will: An Epigram by John Godfrey Saxe