Wedding Song

In a Mongolian wedding-song there is an invocation of "Mother Ut, Queen of Fire," who is said to have come forth "when heaven and earth divided," and to have issued "from the footsteps of Mother-Earth." ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)

But the prettiest moment was when the two brides rose and touched glasses, mutually and to the health of the company, apropos of a little wedding-song which Fortnoye had composed and was trolling at the head our willing chorus. ❋ Various (N/A)

And the women inside at once divested him of his cloak and put on him a bridal robe; and the servants ran about the town and put olive wreaths and laurel garlands at the doors of Baccho's house as well as Ismenodora's, and a flute-girl went up and down the street playing and singing the wedding-song. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)

The hour that should have been so sweet and quiet in the "fragrant chamber adorned for love" of the wedding-song, is turned to strain and dreadfulness. ❋ Gertrude Hall Brownell (1912)

It sang in her ears persistently, joyously, ironically -- a wedding-song, a battle-song, a song of victory. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

This had been going on for a few minutes, when I became aware suddenly that Struboff had ceased playing my wedding-song. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)

Why, we are all here, all except Hammerfeldt, who looks down from heaven, and Coralie who is coming presently to sing us the wedding-song. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)

"Hey for the wedding-song and one night more!" he cried. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)

When the bride and groom and the bridesmaids came in, all the girls were standing in rows on either side of the walk, making an aisle in between, and they sang a wedding-song I had invented from my heart. ❋ Kate Langley Bosher (1898)

The wailing minor of the beginning broke into a joyous chorus at the end, and Gideon wept and laughed in turn, for it was his wedding-song. ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

Of course, inasmuch as the consort of a Jewish monarch was not an incarnate prophecy as her husband was, the transference of the historical features of this wedding-song to a spiritual purpose is not so satisfactory, or easy, in the latter part as in the former. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

[The Hymenaeus was the wedding-song, so called because of its refrain "Hymen O! Hymenae 'O!" ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)