Next in frequency are the applications for private literary contributions, -- such as epithalamia, obituaries, addresses for lovers, and the like. ❋ Various (N/A)
The bride was lighted to bed by a number of torches, according to her quality; and the company returned in the morning to salute the new married couple, and to sing _epithalamia_ at the door of their bed-chamber. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Lucretia was showered with sonnets and epithalamia. ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)
It is not known who was the fortunate orator, but we are familiar with the names of some of the poets who addressed epithalamia to the beautiful princess. ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)
Some were _epithalamia_, or songs composed to celebrate marriages; others to commemorate a victory, or the accession of a prince; to return thanks to the Deity, or to celebrate his praises; to lament a general calamity, or a private affliction; and others, again, were peculiar to their festive meetings. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Before the door of the bridal chamber epithalamia were sung, a charming specimen of which we possess in the bridal hymn of ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Two of his epithalamia, a form of composition rare in Irish literature, have been preserved. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent; epithalamia and lamentations; little satirical songs; odes of wonderful lyrism etc. The fundamental law of Hebrew poetry, the parallelism of the stichs, is usually observed. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
While in no degree Shakespearian echoes, there are epithalamia and dirges of his that might properly have fallen from the lips of Posthumus in "Cymbeline." ❋ Unknown (1904)
Music was heard until a late hour, and epithalamia were again resumed with the morning light. ❋ Lydia Maria Francis Child (1841)
It must be faced that epitaphs are generally more memorable than epithalamia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He imagined how he would bid farewell to his wife, if he had one (465), and wrote magnificent epithalamia for his friends, but lived and died a bachelor. ❋ Robert Herrick (1632)
They included: (1) _ludicra_ (in hendecasyllables); (2) _epithalamia_; (3) _Io_; (4) _ad uxorem_; (5) _epigrammata_. ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
'epithalamia,' he wrote and printed 'epicedia,' a mistake which he corrected with the greatest coolness on the following day thus: 'For ❋ Various (N/A)
a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)
