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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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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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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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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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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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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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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. quoted in W.H. Auden, pt. 2, ch. 6, Humphrey Carpenter (1981).
In The Dyer's Hand, pt. 3, "Hic et Ille" (1962), Auden wrote: "Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face.... To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.")
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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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