Bartlett's Words for the Wedding

Bartlett's Words for the Wedding

by Brett Fletcher Lauer (Author), Aimee Kelley (Author), Brett Fletcher Lauer (Author)

Synopsis

BARTLETT?S WORDS FOR THE WEDDING is an essential resource for anyone planning a wedding ceremony or renewing vows. Comprising passages from Plato, Sappho, Shakespeare, Shelley, Auden, Rilke, and many others, this gorgeous edition is a source for inspiration and an invaluable core text from which to select passages. Beautifully packaged, BARTLETT?S WORDS FOR THE WEDDING includes prose and poetry selections from ancient times to the modern day. A sample from St. Augustine: ?What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.?

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Published: 01 Mar 2007

ISBN 10: 0316016969
ISBN 13: 9780316016964

Author Bio
Poets themselves, Brett Fletcher Lauer and Aimee Kelley were the editors of Isn?t It Romantic: 100 Poems by Younger American Poets. Lauer was a longtime director of the Poetry in Motion series for the Poetry Society of America, and with Lauer and Kelley edit a poetry magazine called Crowd Poets themselves, Brett Fletcher Lauer and Aimee Kelley were the editors of Isn?t It Romantic: 100 Poems by Younger American Poets. Lauer and Kelley edit a poetry magazine called Crowd