Famous quotes containing the word bridegroom:
“Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“Having interr’d her Infant-birth,
The watry ground that late did mourn,
Was strew’d with flow’rs for the return
Of the wish’d Bridegroom of the earth.”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)
“And may her bridegroom bring her to a house
Where all’s accustomed, ceremonious;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)