Love
A Bridal Song
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Love
Comforts lasting, loves increasing,
Like soft hours never ceasing;
Plenty's pleasure, peace complying,
Without jars, or tongues envying;
Hearts by holy union wedded,
More than theirs by custom bedded;
Fruitful issues; life so graced,
Not by age to be defaced;
Budding as the year ensu'th,
Every spring another youth:
All what thought can add beside,
Crown this Bridegroom and this Bride!
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Ford, John. “A Bridal Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ford_j/1/.
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Ford, John. “A Bridal Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ford_j/1/.
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