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Subject: HONEYMOONS
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A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness
Last Line: Quite so emphatically!
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BRIDAL NIGHT, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When darkness was three hours beyond its noon
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Honeymoons


DON'T BE TOO PARTICULAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Never offend your wife!
Subject(s): Children;honeymoons;life; Childhood


HONEYMOON, by JOHN HAVENER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now there's a note of music too sublime
Last Line: A word to loose this glory from the mind.
Subject(s): Honeymoons


HONEYMOON, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uncle bob prayed over the groom:
Subject(s): Honeymoons


HONEYMOON CONCEPTION (1952), by BRAD LEITHAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night, though not a flake fell, the snow deepened...
Last Line: Smooth and rich-bellied, as if big with child.)
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Honeymoons


HONEYMOON TIME AT AN INN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the shiver of morning, a little before the false dawn
Last Line: That it fits all mortal mould.'
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Superstition


MARRIAGE, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should I get married? Should I be good?
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MARRIAGE, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should I get married? Should I be good?
Last Line: So I wait bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage


MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER HONEYMOON, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon - the moon, so silver and cold
Last Line: For she dreamt she had married the devil!
Subject(s): Honeymoons


MY BROTHER, THE WEDDING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daddy walks me slowly past the guests and they rise
Last Line: I don't recognize anyone
Subject(s): Brides; Churches; Honeymoons; Wedding Song


NOTES OF A HONEYMOON, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last we are free, all hail, hymenaeus!
Last Line: I must learn to deserve her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Honeymoons


OUR LOVE OUT OF TOWN, by LAURA GOLDEN BELLOTTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oxnard not by-the-sea but
Last Line: Glorified in hotel kisses
Subject(s): Hearts; Honeymoons; Love; Travel


PERSPECTIVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She photographed the library from rotten row
Last Line: Like an unravelling honeymoon.'
Subject(s): Cynicism; Honeymoons; Marriage; Photography And Photographers


SECOND HONEYMOON, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A perfect cone shell lay on live coral twenty yards from shore
Last Line: The way, come to think of it, my first wife and I %stripped each other of love, then followed our no
Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Honeymoons; Love - Marital


SPANISH BOYS AT THE HOTEL MANX, by DEBORAH BYRNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They prepare french dip sandwiches
Last Line: So innocent they believe only the stars %know where they've been
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Labor And Laborers; Loyalty; Unfaithfulness


THE HONEYMOON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The honeymoon is very strange
Last Line: Faintly; and then . . Has naught to lose.
Subject(s): Honeymoons


THE IMMORALIST, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Samaden, the julier, tiefenkasten -- the raw egg
Last Line: Like the trench of a young couple crossing a lake.
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Man-woman Relationships; Murder; Tuberculosis; Male-female Relations; Consumption (pathology)


THE MARRIAGE (3), by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tons of suicide rock hauled away
Last Line: Tons of suicide rock hauled away
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Bones


THE MI-NA-MEALA, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the rising of the sun
Last Line: For you an endless mi na-meala.
Subject(s): Honeymoons


UNDER A BLUE MOON, OXFORD, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Introduced by letter as 'relatives'
Last Line: We're here till new year's, looking for certain signs
Subject(s): Brides; Honeymoons; Marriage


WE'S ARIDIN' ON DE HONEYMOON TRAIN, by A. S. DRAPER    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Refrain
Subject(s): Honeymoons


WHEELCHAIR REPAIRMAN'S BRIDE IMAGINES HER FIRST NIGHT, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wonders if she'll straddle him
Last Line: The upper and lower worlds; their skin igniting
Subject(s): Brides; Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Travel