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The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Wedding-Wind.")
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I wear my wedding ring
He will cut off your finger
And the blood will linger
Little bird!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "The Robber Bridegroom.")
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
(Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805), German dramatist, poet, historian. Tell, in Wilhelm Tell, act 4, sc. 3, trans. by Sir Thomas Martin.)
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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
(Helen Rowland (1875-1950), U.S. journalist. "Syncopations," A Guide to Men (1922).)
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Girls usually have a papier mβchι face on their wedding day.
(Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873-1954), French author. "Wedding Day," pt. 2, Earthly Paradise, ed. Robert Phelps (1966).)
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How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;
(Thomas Flatman (1637-1688), British poet. On Marriage (l. 1-4). . .
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.)
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Come away!
For you shall hence upon your wedding day.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2, l. 310-1.
Sending Bassanio off with money to pay his friend Antonio's debts.)
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The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.
(Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (l. 7-8). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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