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Summary

The meeting, the courtship, the wedding and the honeymoon have all now been completed. 
 
Having got this far the real journey lays before every married couple seeking the love, stability, support and joys of a long-term relationship.  The state of the newly-weds is now at hand.  The meeting of minds and the living together can become a source of friction or ignition to a deeper understanding.  Physically the very first blush of lust and desire is replaced by an understanding that life and our own biological and emotional clocks, for some, may now require that children be brought into the mix and families raised. 
 
Yes, that interlude when the bliss of being a newly-wed – announced and seen as such to a wider society – really doesn’t last that long.  Time to savour the days and nights of love’s sweet wonder. 
 
Our classic poets, of course, have much to say and advise on.  With the storied likes of Christopher Marlowe, Khalil Gibran, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and even George Orwell then the listener is in wise and knowing hands. 
 
01 - Poems for Newly-Weds - An Introduction 
02  - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 
03 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 
04 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay 
05 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell 
06 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi 
07 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
08 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
09 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit 
10 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence 
11 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 
12 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
13 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 
14 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
15 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 
16 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood 
17 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
18 - On Love by Khalil Gibran 
19 - Two Lovers by George Eliot 
20 - Love's Unity by Alfred Austin 
21 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
22 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
23 - Sonnet 116 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare 
24 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell 
25 - Beloved by Hafiz 
26 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce 
27 - Romance by George Orwell 
28 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper 
29 - Sonnet 143 - Lo, As a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch by Willaim Shakespeare 
30 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
31 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
32 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 
33 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
34 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 
35 - Unending Love by Tagore 
36 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
37 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats 
38 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney 
39 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser 
40 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti 
41 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron 
42 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay 
43 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 
44 - Bright Star by John Keats 
45 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 
46 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
47 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats 
48 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

Duration: about 1 hour (01:04:12)
Publishing date: 2022-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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