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Poetry can add that extra
special touch to your invitations. Include a poem in your invitation
or your wedding program by choosing one of the many samples we provide
or you can provide your own poetry.
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(1)
He is soft spoken
And I am a chatter Box
He loves a love story
and I like to laugh,
He whispered "Will you
marry me?" An I
shouted "yes!"
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(2)
Love is a short word
but it contains everything.
Love means the body,
the soul, the life,
the entire being.
We feel love as we feel
the warmth of our blood,
we breathe love
as we breathe the air,
we hold it in ourselves
as we hold
our thoughts.
Guy de Maupassant
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(3)
Love is a friendship
set on fire.
Jeremy Tayloy
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(4)
Grow old with me!
The best is yet to be ...
Robert Browning
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(5)
It is the true season
of love
when we know that
we alone can love;
that no one could ever
have loved before us
and that no one
will ever love
in the same way
after us
Goethe
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(6)
There is no more lovely,
friendly, and charming a
relationship, communication, or
company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
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(7)
It
is not good that man should be alone,
I will make him a helpmate for him.
Genesis 2:18
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(8)
With
this ring I thee wed,
with my body I thee worship,
and with my worldly goods I thee endow.
Book of Common Prayer
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(9)
Suspend for one day, your cares and labours, and come
to the wedding, kind friends and good neighbours.
Old English ditty
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(10)
I think we had the chief of all love’s joys.
Only in knowing that we loved each other.
George Eliot
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(11)
You were born together, and together you Shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white
Wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the
Silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance
Between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond
Of love:
Let rather be a moving sea between
The shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from
One cup.
Give on another of your bread but eat
Not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
But let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
Though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each
Other’s keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain
Your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near
Together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And oak tree and the cypress grow
Not in each other’s shadow.
Kahlil Gibran
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(12)
True love is the best gift which God has given to man
alone beneath the heaven.
Sir Walter Scott
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(13)
Something old,
Something new,
Something borrowed,
Something blue…
And a silver sixpence in her shoe.
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(14)
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
whatever stirs this mortal frame,
all are but ministers of love,
and feed his sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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(15)
Love is patient, love is kind
it does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude, it
is not self-seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no records of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth. It always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
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(16)
In true marriage lies
Not equal or unequal;
Each fulfills
Defect in each other, and always thought in
thought,
Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow
The single pure and perfect animal,
The two-cell’d beating, one full stroke, Life.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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(17)
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
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(18)
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third
might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for
the abolishment of separateness.
It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities
within the two spirits. It is the golden ring within a chain whose beginning
is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls
from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the field of divine nature.
Kahlil Gibran
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(19)
A contract of eternal bond of love,
Comfirm’d by mutual joining of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,
Strengthen’d by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact
Sealed in my function, by my testimony.
William Shakespeare
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(20)
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of
friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and
reason…
and indeed all the sweets of life.
Joseph Addison
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(21)
What greater thing is there for two human souls than
to feel that they are joined for life-to strengthen each other in all labor,
to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain,
to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment
of the last parting.
George Elliot
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(22)
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other
guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between
the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful
living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance
between them which
makes it possible for each to see the other whole and
against a wide sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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(23)
For whither thou goest, I will go,
And whither thou lodgest, I will lodge,
Thy people shall be my people,
And thy God my God.
Where thou diest, will I die,
And there I will be buried.
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me.
Ruth 1:16-17
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(24)
`Tis the gift to be simple
`Tis the gift to be free
`Tis the gift to be come down
Where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves
In the place just right
It will be in the valley
Of love and delight.
Shaker Hymn
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(25)
New love is the brightest,
and long love is the greatest; but revived love is the
tenderest thing known on earth.
Thomas Hardy
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(26)
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Pierre-Augustin De Beaumarchais
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(27)
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out
fear.
1 John 4:18
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(28)
Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rock,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee a bed of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of purest gold.
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing
For they delight each may morning;
If these delight thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
Christopher Marlowe
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(29)
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother,
And the sunlight clasp the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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(30)
The owl and pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
“O lovely pussy! O pussy, my love,
what a beautiful pussy you are,
you are!
What a beautiful pussy you are!”
Edward Lear
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(31)
The voice of my beloved!
Look he comes,
Leaping upon the mountains,
bounding over the hills.
My beloved is like a gazelle
or a young stag.
Look,there he stands
behind our wall,
Gazing in at the windows,
looking through the lattice.
My beloved speaks and says to me:
“Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away;
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
In the covert of the rock,
Let me see your face,
let me hear your voice;
For your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely.”
My beloved is mine and I am his;
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
For love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
Song of Solomon 2:8-10
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(32)
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before
the money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou has
a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn
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(33)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bend with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it not even to the edge of doom.
If this is error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.
William Shakespeare
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(34)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints-I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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(35)
Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:3
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(36)
The sunrise blooms and withers on the hill
Like hillflower; and the noblest troth
Dies here to dust. Yet shall heaven’s promise clothe
Even yet these lovers who have cherished still
This test for love- in every kiss sealed fast
To feel the first kiss and forebode the last.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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(37)
To do good and communicate is the lover’s grand
intention. It is the happiness of the other that
make his own most intense gratification. It is not
possible to disentangle the different emotions, the
pride, humility, pity, and passion which are excited
by a look of happy love or an unexpected caress.
To make oneself beautiful...to excel in talk…is
to
not only magnify one’s self, but to offer the most
delicate homage at the same time. And it is in this
latter intention that they are done by lovers, for the
essence of love is kindness; and, indeed, it may so
be best defined as passionate kindness—kindness, so
to speak, run mad and become importunate and violent.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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(38)
Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good fame,
Plans, credit and the muse,
Nothing refuse.
Tis a brave master;
Let it have scope:
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope:
High and more high
It dives into noon,
With wing unspent,
Untold intent;
But it is a god,
Knows its own path
And the outlets of the sky.
It was never for the mean;
It requireth courage stout.
Souls above doubt,
Valor unbending.
It will reward,
They shall return
More than they were,
And ever ascending.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(39)
For hearing my thoughts,
understanding my dreams,
and being my best friend...
For filling my life with music,
and loving me without end...
I do.
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(40)
Because in my life
is where I want you to be
always and forever,
you and me...
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(41)
As our marriage brings new meaning to love,
so our love brings new meaning to life.
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(42)
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
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(43)
Love knows no limit to its endurance
no end to its trust,
Love still stands
where all else has fallen.
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(44)
One love that
is shared by two.
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(45)
Came but for friendship,
and took away love.
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(46)
My family, your family -
blending as one sharing, caring -
a new life's begun
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(47)
Our life together
begins this day...
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