Tag Archives: Marriage

A Swift Birthday Poem for Julia

In which I use one of Swift’s birthday poems to celebrate my Julia’s birthday.

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The Joys of August Blackberries

In an essay written 12 years ago, I announce a special event with a backdrop of Mary Oliver’s blackberries.

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Poems that Celebrate Long Marriages

Two poems to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, by Kunitz and Fanthorpe.

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To Julia, Upon 49 Years of Marriage

A James Weldon Johnson poem for our 49th wedding anniversary.

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Lit Steels Spines in Face of Pressure

One answer to how Austen’s Fanny Price resists the unrelenting family pressure to marry Crawford: she has read Richardson’s “Clarissa.”

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A Father’s Day Poem about Tenderness

For upcoming Father’s Day, here’s a poem about father tenderness by Li-Young Lee.

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To Julia, Who Turns 70 Today

I celebrate my wife’s 70th birthday with a Christina Rossetti love poem.

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You Are the Salt of the Earth

Jesus telling the disciples they “the salt of the earth” reminds me of Clifton’s poem “salt.”

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Verbal Combat Trumps Soft Romance

Shaw contributed some great plays to the feuding couples comedy genre, including Man and Superman and Pygmalion.

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