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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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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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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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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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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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Girls usually have a papier mâché 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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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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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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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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"If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature ... the booklets—the little thrilling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page forty—surely they are due to Steam?"
"And when we travel by electricity—if I may venture to develop your theory—we shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page."
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman. Lady Muriel and the narrator, Sylvie and Bruno, Macmillan (1889).)
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