bride quotes

'Will ye gang wi'me, Lizzy Lindsay, Will ye gang to the Highlands wi'me? Will ye gang wi'me, Lizzy Lindsay. My bride and my darling to be?'

-Ballads
'Lizzy Lindsay', opening lines.

That is ever the way.'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
Quality Street (published1913), act1.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And IJohn saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 21:1^2.

So though a virgin, yet a bride To every Grace, she justified A chaste polygamy, and died.

-Thomas Carew
  'Inscription on the Tomb of Lady Mary Wentworth'.

Farewell! Be the proud bride of a ducal coronet, and forget me!† Unalterably, never yours, Augustus.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^4  Augustus Moddle. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.54.

Avirgin-widow, and a mourning bride.

-John Dryden
  Palamon and  Arcite, bk.3, l.927.

Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza1.

O wha's the bride that cairries the bunch O'thistles blinterin' white? Her cuckold bridegroom little dreids What he sall ken this nicht.

-Grieve
  A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

I can't remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride. Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

- Don McLean
  Of the death of Buddy Holly.'American Pie'.

One day he missed his loving bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten byan alligator. ProfessorTwist could not but smile. 'You mean,' he said,'a crocodile.'

- (Frederic) Ogden Nash
  The Face Is Familiar,'The Purist'.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

- Alexander Pope
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.71^2.

'Why weep ye by the tide, ladie? Why weep ye by the tide? I'll wed ye to my youngest son, And ye sall be his bride: And ye sall be his bride, ladie, Sae comely to be seen' But aye she loot the tears down fa' For Jock of Hazeldean.

- Sir Walter Scott
  'Jock of Hazeldean', stanza1.

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

- Samuel John Stone
  Lyra fidelium.

Passionless bride, divineTranquillity, Yearned after by the wisest of the wise, Who fail to find thee, being as thou art Without one pleasure and without one pain.

-Tennyson
  'Lucretius',1.265^8.

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

-William Wordsworth
  'The Excursion', bk.3, l.735^6.

Even so for me a vision sanctified The sway of death; long ere my eyes had seen Thy countenancethe still rapture of thy mien When thou, dear Sister! wert become death's bride: No trace of pain or languor could abide That changeage on thy brow was smoothedthy cold Wan cheek at once was privileged to unfold A loveliness to living youth denied. Oh! if within me hope should e'er decline, The lamp of faith, lost Friend! too faintly burn; The may that heaven-revealing smile of thine, The bright assurance, visibly return: And let my spirit in that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn.

-William Wordsworth
  'November1836', complete poem (published1837).