| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxiii, 193 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Readings : [Pt.]I : from Love song / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The two of you / Czeslaw Milosz -- Wild nights, wild nights! / Emily Dickinson -- Of all the souls that stand create / Emily Dickinson -- At the wedding march / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Song / John Fletcher -- Now you will feel no rain / Apache Song -- Sonnet XVII / Pablo Neruda -- You that love lovers / Rumi -- I'll give my love an apple without a core / Anonymous -- Married love / Kuan Tao-Sheng -- We two, how long we were fool'd / Walt Whitman -- A wedding toast / Richard Wilbur -- from The imitation of Christ / Thomas À Kempis -- Is it for now or for always / Philip Larkin -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Psalm I (adapted) / The Book of Psalms -- from Letters to a young poet / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from Letters to a young poet / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from Letters / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from A wedding (adapted) / Boris Pasternak. |
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[Pt.]2 : Come, my beloved, let us go up the shining mountain (adapted) / Abanaki song -- The tongues of the lightning snakes flicker and twist (adapted) / Aboriginal Australian song -- Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly, lavender's green / Anonymous -- Sukey, you shall be my wife / Anonymous -- The peace : a wedding song (adapted) / Aristophanes -- Variation on the word sleep / Margaret Atwood -- Shoshone wedding song (adapted) / Mary Austin -- The dance / Wendell Berry -- from Several questions answered / William Blake -- In the month of May / Robert Bly -- Psalm 100 (adapted) / The Book of Psalms -- Psalm 148 (adapted) / The Book of Psalms -- All night the cicada chirps (adapted) / The Book of Songs -- Unlimited friendliness / The Buddha -- O, my luve's like a red, red rose / Robert Burns -- Roman epithalamion (adapted) / Catullus -- Epithalamion (adapted) / Richard Crashaw -- if everything happens that can't be done / e.e. cummings -- love is more thicker than forget / e.e. cummings -- from The divine comedy / Dante -- It was a quiet way / Emily Dickinson -- I gave myself to him / Emily Dickinson -- Alter! When the hills do / Emily Dickinson -- The good-morrow / John Donne -- from The anniversary / John Donne -- A wedding song on St. Valentine's Day (adapted) / John Donne -- An epithalamion for lawyers (adapted) / John Donne -- No love, to love of man and wife / Richard Eedes -- This love is as good (adapted) / Ancient Egyptian -- from Iphigeneia at Aulis / Euripides -- The master speed / Robert Frost -- The creation / Eduardo Galeano -- The world / Eduardo Galeano -- Whole love / Robert Graves -- from Everywhere is here / Robert Graves -- Here all seeking is over (adapted) / Hawaiian song. |
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Love / George Herbert -- Pale clouds, away! and welcome, day! / Thomas Heywood -- As I dig for wild orchids / Izumi Shikibu -- Butterfly wine / Japanese song -- I unpetalled you, like a rose / Juan Ramón Jiménez -- To the bridge of love / Juan Ramón Jiménez -- Now, bride and bridegroom, help to sing (adapted) / Ben Jonson -- The flute of interior time is played whether we hear it or not / Kabir -- Wedding-wind / Philip Larkin -- from Know deeply, know thyself more deeply / D.H. Lawrence -- from Fidelity / D.H. Lawrence -- The ache of marriage / Denise Levertov -- from The garden of earthly delights / Czeslaw Milosz -- Adam and Eve in the garden (adapted) / John Milton -- The night chant (adapted) / Navajo song -- from Sonnet XII / Pablo Neruda -- from Sonnet XLVIII / Pablo Neruda -- Calling-one's-own (adapted) / Ojibway song -- The wedding vow / Sharon Olds -- The knowing / Sharon Olds -- from The first letter to the Corinthians / Paul of Tarsus -- Wreath for a bridal / Sylvia Plath -- from The second Duino elegy / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from The third Duino elegy / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from The seventh Duino elegy / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The sonnets to Orpheus I, 4 / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The sonnets to Orpheus I, 12 / Rainer Maria Rilke -- My heart is like a singing bird / Christina Rossetti -- Turn me like a waterwheel turning a millstone / Rumi -- This marriage be wine with halvah, honey dissolving in milk / Rumi -- The minute I heard my first love story / Rumi. |
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Song for the goddess of love (adapted) / Sappho -- Prothalamion for an autumn wedding / May Sarton -- from The mind of absolute trust (adapted) / Seng-Ts'an -- Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare -- from Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- O fair! O sweet! when I do look on thee / Sir Philip Sidney -- Long their coupled joys maintain (adapted) / Sir Philip Sidney -- Now touch the air softly / William Jay Smith -- I have come into my garden / The Song of Songs -- Wake up, my love, my companion / The Song of Songs -- Bind me as a seal upon your heart / The Song of Songs -- from Epithalamion (adapted) / Edmund Spenser -- Re-statement of romance / Wallace Stevens -- I will make you brooches and toys for your delight / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Wedding song : lullaby for sleepy lovers (adapted) / Theocritus -- from When I heard at the close of day / Walt Whitman -- Marriage / William Carlos Williams -- The rewaking / William Carlos Williams -- Where will you and I sleep? (adapted) / Wintu song -- A blessing / James Wright -- I want to be your friend (adapted) / The Yüeh-Fu. |
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Longer readings : from Poetry and marriage / Wendell Berry -- from Love / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from The imitation of Christ / Thomas À Kempis -- from Women in love / D.H. Lawrence -- from The sacred marriage of Shiva and Parvati / Parañcoti Munivar -- from Letters to a young poet / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from Letters / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from The courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi / Ancient Sumerian -- from Forms of the implicit love of God / Simone Weil. |
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Ceremonies : Preface / Robert Hass -- A Protestant ceremony -- A Catholic ceremony -- A Jewish ceremony (adapted) -- A non-theistic Judeo-Christian ceremony (adapted) -- A Zen ceremony (adapted) -- A Zen-Unitarian-Catholic-American-Transcendentalist ceremony -- Afterword : The Tao of marriage / Stephen Mitchell. |
| Subject |
Weddings -- Literary collections.
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Love -- Literary collections.
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Marriage -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Hass, Robert.
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Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
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| Added Title |
Wedding anthology. |
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Poetry and prose on love and marriage. |
| ISBN |
0060169192: $20.00 |
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9780060169190 |
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