O marriage-bells, your clamor tells <br /> Two weddings in one breath. <br />SHE marries whom her love compels: <br /> -- And I wed Goodman Death! <br />My brain is blank, my tears are red; <br />Listen, O God: -- "I will," he said: -- <br />And I would that I were dead. <br />Come groomsman Grief and bridesmaid Pain <br />Come and stand with a ghastly twain. <br />My Bridegroom Death is come o'er the meres <br />To wed a bride with bloody tears. <br />Ring, ring, O bells, full merrily: <br />Life-bells to her, death-bells to me: <br />O Death, I am true wife to thee!<br /><br />Sidney Lanier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wedding/
