Love
On My Wedding-Day
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Love
Here'S a happy New Year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say--
Wish me many returns of the Season,
But as few as you please of the Day.
✦ ✦ ✦
Codex Note
January 2, 1820. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 294.
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MLA
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On My Wedding-Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/242/.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On My Wedding-Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/242/.
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