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The Poems of Sidney Lanier
Contents:
The Wedding.
O marriage-bells, your clamor tells
Two weddings in one breath.
SHE marries whom her love compels:
— And I wed Goodman Death!
My brain is blank, my tears are red;
Listen, O God: — "I will," he said: —
And I would that I were dead.
Come groomsman Grief and bridesmaid Pain
Come and stand with a ghastly twain.
My Bridegroom Death is come o’er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
Ring, ring, O bells, full merrily:
Life-bells to her, death-bells to me:
O Death, I am true wife to thee!
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Macon, Georgia, 1865.
Contents:
Chicago: Sidney Lanier, "The Wedding.," The Poems of Sidney Lanier, ed. Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962- in The Poems of Sidney Lanier (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), Original Sources, accessed June 8, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GD5H9WFJTUHUMY5.
MLA: Lanier, Sidney. "The Wedding." The Poems of Sidney Lanier, edited by Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962-, in The Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, George E. Wood, 1850, Original Sources. 8 Jun. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GD5H9WFJTUHUMY5.
Harvard: Lanier, S, 'The Wedding.' in The Poems of Sidney Lanier, ed. . cited in 1850, The Poems of Sidney Lanier, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 8 June 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GD5H9WFJTUHUMY5.
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