Treasury of Wedding Poems, Quotations & Short Stories

This book is a compilation of poems, quotations, and short stories related to weddings - just as it says it is. Use it to plan your wedding - or a wedding toast, if you are the best man or maid of honor. One of my personal favorites is "Marriage Vow" by an unknown Chinese poet, from the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - A.D. 221), on page 12: "O, celestial beings Let our feelings for each other Continue without diminishing Only when mountains are leveled To basins, when ocean waters run Dry, when winter is ripped With thunders, when the summer sky Rains snow, and heave and earth Are smashed together, shall we Ever dare to be parted." From the back cover: This bridal day with gold I will enchain, And wear its hours like rubies on my heart, That you and I from Love may never part While still these jeweled monuments remain... - From "Bridal Day" by Compton Mackenzie "Every wedding where true lovers wed, helps on the march of universal Love." - Herman Melville (1819-1891) "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul." - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) This charming treasury contains over 100 classic poems, quotations and short stories from many lands - all on the subject of weddings! From bridal preparations and the wedding day itself, to advice for newlyweds about married life - these verses, quotes and short stories celebrate weddings throughout time and from all around the world. Beautifully illustrated, this collection includes the works of Edgar Allen Poe, John Donne, Judah Halevi, Goethe, e.e. cummings, W. S. Rendra, Ovid, George Bernard Shaw, Anne Bradstreet, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Stephen Crane and A.A. Milne among many other writers, both ancient and modern.