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Take a look at this TabStart page to discover beautiful poems that congratulate happy couples on their engagement. The curated resources below offer poems that extol love and pay tribute to adorable, happy couples. Some of the verse below includes "Love Song" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Czeslaw Milosz's "The Two of You," and "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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"Love Song" - a Love Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke - Take a look at Rainer Maria Rilke's gorgeous "Love Song," a poem that discusses losing yourself in the one you love.
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"The Two of You" - an Engagement Poem by Czeslaw Milosz - Czeslaw Milosz's "The Two of You" is a gorgeous work to use to congratulate and celebrate a happy couple who is engaged. Czeslaw writes of the couple, "For one plant divided / Into masculine and feminine which longed for each other." Be sure to check out Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII," which is also presented on this page.
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Engagement Poem to Congratulate a Happy Couple - This poem is entitled "Engagement is the Time Between," and it can be recited against M. Dimitri Shostakovich's "Fugue in B Minor." Of engagement the author writes, "Things race by, yet move so slow / A month can take a year."
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Wedding Poetry from the American Academy of Poets - The American Academy of Poets presents an essay that discusses the wide range of poetry that is devoted to brides and grooms. Of course, much of the poetry here would be perfectly suitable for soon-to-be husbands and wives upon the occasion of their engagement. Some of the works explored on this page include "Epithalamium" by the ancient Greek poet Sappho, "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and "When a Woman Loves a Man" by David Lehman.
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Poems to Celebrate an Engagement from the Poetry Foundation - The Poetry Foundation offers a coterie of sumptuous poems in its section on poetry appropriate for celebrating engagements. Some of the works in this section include "I Knew a Woman" by Theodore Roethke, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" by Richard Wilbur, and "Lovers' Infiniteness" by John Donne.
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Love Poems to Celebrate an Engagement from the Academy of American Poets - In addition to its section on weddings, the Academy of American Poets also features an outstanding section on love poetry. This page includes love poetry that is categorized as traditional and classic, American classic, and contemporary love poems. Some of the distinguished poets here include Emily Dickinson, Robert Desnos, Christopher Marlowe, e.e cummings, and Stephen Dunn