Because -- Love's Philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Will you perhaps consent to be / Delmore Schwartz -- from Notes toward a Supreme Fiction / Wallace Stevens -- Marriage / Amy Gerstler -- Marriage / Gregory Corso -- Advice for Good Love / Yehuda Amichai -- Men Marry What They Need / John Ciardi -- A Slice of Wedding Cake / Robert Graves -- Because / Linda Pastan -- A Prayer / Joel Oppenheimer -- from The Prophet -- Epithalamia / Kahlil Gibran -- Marriage Morning / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- O Bride / Sappho -- from Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser -- Epithalamion / Dannie Abse -- Epithalamium: The Single Light / Michael Blumenthal -- Epithalamium / Daniel Halpern -- They Came to the Wedding / Babette Deutsch -- A Wedding Story / Melvin Wilk -- A Wedding Toast / Richard Wilbur -- Witnessing a Wedding / Marge Piercy -- Epithalamion / Stephen Dunn -- Upon a Second Marriage / James Merrill -- The Wedding / Robert Graves -- Omens / Alan Feldman -- Wedding Day / Seamus Heaney -- The Wedding / Marcia Southwick -- Ark / Linda Pastan -- Wreath for a Bridal / Sylvia Plath -- Poem / Seamus Heaney -- Wedding-Wind / Philip Larkin -- Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful to a Vow! -- So Much Happiness / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- It is Marvellous to Wake Up Together / Elizabeth Bishop -- 7, 22, 66 / Sandra McPherson -- Wishful Thinking / Michael Blumenthal -- For Love / Robert Creeley -- The Wife / Denise Levertov -- The Skunk / Seamus Heaney -- So Much Happiness / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The Blind Leading the Blind / Lisel Mueller -- Domestic Song / Heather McHugh -- Primitive -- Poem to My Husband from My Father's Daughter / Sharon Olds -- Cherish / Raymond Carver -- from That Walk Away as One: A Marriage Brood -- Toward a Definition of Marriage / Rachel Hadas -- from Solomon and the Witch / William Butler Yeats -- from Toward a Definition of Marriage / Mona Van Duyn -- Marriage / David Ray -- Tree Marriage / William Meredith -- A Bride Again / Susan Kinsolving -- Marriage / David Ignatow -- Love and Memory / Steve Orlen -- Mathematics of Love / Michael Hamburger -- To My Wife / Philip Larkin -- Most Like an Arch This Marriage / John Ciardi -- Marriage / Mark Van Doren -- A Marriage / Michael Blumenthal -- The Common Wisdom / Howard Nemerov -- Domestic Interior -- Two-Part Harmony / Eavan Boland -- from The Country of Marriage / Wendell Berry -- Homecoming / Maxine Kumin -- Habitation / Margaret Atwood -- Song for a Marriage / Vassar Miller -- A Marriage / Robin Becker -- from The One Day / Donald Hall -- Two-Part Harmony / Peter Karoff -- Love Song: I and Thou / Alan Dugan -- The Night the Children Were Away / Stephen Dunn -- After Making Love We Hear Footsteps / Galway Kinnell -- You Hold Me in My Life / Robert Pack -- The Message -- Identities / Charles Fishman -- This Blessing / Michael Blumenthal -- Identities / Paul Muldoon -- Driving Home in Two Cars / Jody Bolz -- Ways of Looking at a Wife / Peter Karoff -- To My Wife / Hale Chatfield -- A Pillowed Head / Seamus Heaney -- A Locked House / W.D. Snodgrass -- from Woman / Randall Jarrell -- Cutting the Jewish Bride's Hair / Ruth Whitman -- In Praise of Marriage / Christine de Pisan -- Man and Wife / Robert Lowell -- Astronomical: A Marriage / Michael Blumenthal -- The Husband and Wife Team / Patricia Goedicke -- The Country Wife / Dana Gioia -- Foreign Affairs / Stanley Kunitz -- Some Nation Who's Been Slighted / Gary Margolis -- Possession -- A Man and a Woman / Theresa Pappas -- But That Is Another Story / Donald Justice -- Days We Would Rather Know / Michael Blumenthal -- Letter Home / Stephen Dunn -- Liebesgedicht / Ellen Bryant Voight -- The Marriage Nocturne / Alicia Ostriker -- A Man and a Woman / Alan Feldman -- Marriage / Donald Finkel -- After the Argument / Stephen Dunn -- Thrust & Parry / Greg Delanty -- At the Funeral of the Marriage -- The Ache Of Marriage / Paul Durcan -- The Ache of Marriage / Denise Levertov -- For My Husband / Ellen Bryant Voight -- Drift / Linda Pastan -- Outlook Uncertain / Alastair Reid -- Quarrel / Ellen Bryant Voight -- Patience / Charles Fishman -- Just Married / Dave Smith -- Trouble in the Portable Marriage / Linda Gregg -- Leaving / Gail Mazur -- Horse / Louise Gluck -- Adam and Eve in Later Life / Howard Nemerov -- The Figures on the Frieze / Alastair Reid -- From the Night-Window / Douglas Dunn -- Equinox 1980 -- From Grief to Grief / Peter Davison -- Love crosses its islands, from grief to grief / Pablo Neruda -- Separated / Michael Blumenthal -- After the Division / Grace Schulman -- Good-bye. Sweet Dreams. Come Back / Arthur Smith -- Man and Wife / L.E. Sissman -- The Marriage / Ellen Bryant Voight -- Here Are My Black Clothes / Louise Gluck -- No More Marriages / Linda Gregg -- River Road / Stanley Kunitz -- Winter Remembered / John Crowe Ransom -- Divorce / Anne Sexton -- Hymn to a Broken Marriage / Paul Durcan -- Wedding-Ring / Denise Levertov -- The Marriage -- Love Recognized / Mark Strand -- from Idea / Michael Drayton -- Revisions / Michael Blumenthal -- Ars Poetica / Philip Appleman -- For What Binds Us / Jane Hirshfield -- The Price / Anne Stevenson -- History / Jay Parini -- Air and Fire / Wendell Berry -- After an Absence / Linda Pastan -- from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower / William Carlos Williams -- Love Poem for My Husband / Barbara Helfgott Hyett -- Twenty-Year Marriage / Ai -- You must know that I do not love and that I love you / Pablo Neruda -- Our Wives / Jonathan Galassi -- Second Marriage / Linda McCarriston -- I Could Take / Hayden Carruth -- For Fran / Philip Levine -- After Paradise / Czeslaw Milsoz -- Afternoon Happiness / Carolyn Kizer -- Marriage Amulet / Nancy Willard -- Late Loving / Mona Van Duyn -- from A Happy Marriage -- The Old Gray Couple (2) / Archibald MacLeish -- The Marriage / Yvor Winters -- A Marriage / Richmond Lattimore -- Two Shadows / Elizabeth Spires -- Love Recognized / Robert Penn Warren -- To Dorothy / Marvin Bell -- The Widow's Lament in Springtime / William Carlos Williams -- A Marriage, an Elegy -- Anniversaries: The Progress of Love / Wendell Berry -- The Anniversary / John Donne -- An Anniversary / Wendell Berry -- from The Fourteenth Anniversary / Richard Shelton -- Crystal Anniversary -- Anniversary / Philip Appleman -- The Underground / Seamus Heaney -- On the Eve of Our Anniversary / Gary Margolis -- An Anniversary: A Lucubration / L.E. Sissman -- Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary / Robert Lowell -- Anniversary on the Island / W.S. Merwin -- Lines on a Tenth Anniversary / Arthur Smith -- Celebration for June 24 / Thomas McGrath -- The Progress of Love -- from Three Anniversaries / Philip Dacey -- 25th Anniversary / Linda Pastan -- Three Poems for a Twenty-fifth Anniversary / Richard Shelton -- The Commemoration / Edwin Muir -- To My Wife on Our Thirty-fifth Wedding Anniversary -- from Songs of a Wanderer / Aleksander Wat -- Anniversary Sonnet.
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