Read full poem →Ages since the vanquished bled
Round my mother's marriage-bed;
There the ravens feasted far
Dictionary Entry
The legal or socially recognized union between two people, typically involving commitment and shared life.
In a Sentence
“Their marriage was a celebration of love and commitment, bringing together two families.”
Origin
From Old French 'mariage', from Latin 'maritagium', meaning 'the right of marrying'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “marriage”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Catch the starry beams they shed
Prospering the marriage bed,
And breed the land that reared your prime
Read full poem →Made slaves by honour, and made fools by shame.
Marriage may all those petty tyrants chase,
But sets up one, a greater, in their place;
Read full poem →Ambrose Philips, and Pope assisted him in the composition of his
luckless farce, 'Three Hours after Marriage'. When Gay's opera 'Polly'
was forbidden by the licenser, and Gay's patrons, the Duke and Duchess
Read full poem →to the king than was the marriage of his daughter. ed
136-137. lose the child, assume the woman, cease to be submissive,
Read full poem →proper, draws a picture of Arthur’s court at the height of
its glory and purity. At the beginning of “The Marriage
of Geraint”’ comes the first rumor that
Read full poem →Balan,” and with the division of the original ‘‘Enid” into
two parts, ‘“The Marriage of Geraint’’ and “Geraint and
Enid,” the “Idylls of the King’? was complete. The poems
Read full poem →33, Proxy-wedded with a bootless calf. In the ceremony of proxy-
marriage, which was common during the Middle Ages, the representa-
. tive of the bridegroom removed his boot and placed his leg, bare to
Read full poem →60), when for the sake of a barren material fidelity to his "rose" of
marriage, he has passed over the offered flower "such as May never bore,"
the rose herself "turns away with jealousy," and gives him thorns for
Read full poem →TITLE-PAGE. A design of borders, selected from those in "JERUSALEM"
(plates 5, 19, &c.), with minor details from "MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND
HELL," and "BOOK OF THEL."