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Bridal Ballad
The fantastic poem "Bridal Ballad" by Edgar Allan Poe which begins with:
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satins and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satins and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.
2 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1837
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,882 books28.6k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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September 22, 2020
A bittersweet poem of lost love and lost futures due to the young casualties of war.
March 18, 2022
Do I just enjoy sad and depressing poems?
Another Poe banger.
Another Poe banger.
May 31, 2017
This is an exquisite poem about a bride with cold feet and lingering doubts on her wedding day. It's well worth a read.
November 4, 2020
Bridal Ballad is one of Poe’s poems that left me conflicted. In truth, it’s a three-point-five-star rating that I rounded down. I enjoyed this one, it flowed well and kept me hooked, but I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I’ve enjoyed other poems from the author. It’s worth a read for anyone interested in Poe’s poetry, but it’s not my favourite.
November 18, 2020
For such a short poem it packs a mighty wallop. The reader knows this woman will never really be truly happy and forever mourn her lost lover.
August 8, 2019
I have arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku:
"They're poor, shaky things,
Those walls we raise to stay sane
When Life bids, 'Move on.'"
"They're poor, shaky things,
Those walls we raise to stay sane
When Life bids, 'Move on.'"
January 9, 2021
Poeathon is now well and truly into its third day.
(One of my reading rules is never to read the same author twice in succession so this means Poe is only every other "book" read)
I digress again, this is a beautiful little poem.
Even though you can hardly call of these works books, despite it counting as books on the Goodreads tally, they are still valuable works and I am pleased we can discuss and think about each work individually.
(One of my reading rules is never to read the same author twice in succession so this means Poe is only every other "book" read)
I digress again, this is a beautiful little poem.
Even though you can hardly call of these works books, despite it counting as books on the Goodreads tally, they are still valuable works and I am pleased we can discuss and think about each work individually.
March 19, 2024
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I enjoyed this one quite a lot but this one wasn’t that good in the end. Which really leaves me conflicted.
The writing style was pretty basic in this one, you will get the Edgar Allan Poe vibe to it but Edgar Allan Poe was able to do a much better work than this one.
In the end this one is a short and enjoyable read.
https://thebookcornerchronicles.com/2...
I enjoyed this one quite a lot but this one wasn’t that good in the end. Which really leaves me conflicted.
The writing style was pretty basic in this one, you will get the Edgar Allan Poe vibe to it but Edgar Allan Poe was able to do a much better work than this one.
In the end this one is a short and enjoyable read.
October 23, 2023
Read in 2023 as part of Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
June 20, 2020
Not what it seems at first.
December 31, 2020
I definitely enjoyed this poem of his. Would 100% recommend.
January 25, 2021
Comprehensible when you realize that it's written from the bride's viewpoint. It should have been titled: A Bride's Ballad.
August 30, 2021
Bridal Ballad
Love, (lies?), loss, letting go ... echoes of Emily Bronte again. I like it.
Love, (lies?), loss, letting go ... echoes of Emily Bronte again. I like it.
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June 15, 2023
I like to focus on the theme of how dangerous not moving on from loss is. Short, and packs a punch.
April 25, 2023
Balada nupcial: Banco
La Durmiente: Banco el triple, pero ya está de minas muertas porfa
La Durmiente: Banco el triple, pero ya está de minas muertas porfa
October 21, 2019
"Bridal Ballad"
By Edgar Allan Poe
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satin and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.
And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he breathed his vow,
I felt my bosom swell-
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed his who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.
But he spoke to re-assure me,
And he kissed my pallid brow,
While a reverie came o'er me,
And to the church-yard bore me,
And I sighed to him before me,
Thinking him dead D'Elormie,
"Oh, I am happy now!"
And thus the words were spoken,
And this the plighted vow,
And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now!
Would God I could awaken!
For I dream I know not how!
And my soul is sorely shaken
Lest an evil step be taken,-
Lest the dead who is forsaken
May not be happy now.
By Edgar Allan Poe
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satin and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.
And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he breathed his vow,
I felt my bosom swell-
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed his who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.
But he spoke to re-assure me,
And he kissed my pallid brow,
While a reverie came o'er me,
And to the church-yard bore me,
And I sighed to him before me,
Thinking him dead D'Elormie,
"Oh, I am happy now!"
And thus the words were spoken,
And this the plighted vow,
And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now!
Would God I could awaken!
For I dream I know not how!
And my soul is sorely shaken
Lest an evil step be taken,-
Lest the dead who is forsaken
May not be happy now.
September 1, 2025
Wow! That's the first thing you've probably said after reading the title. To be in a good hour for both the bride and groom!
Oh, just stay a minute, you don't know Mr. Poe, this lady loved a young soldier, who died in a battle, and now she's marrying another man! No problem, it's just the author and his vision...
The Bridal Ballad was published for the first time on January 1837, by the Southern Literary Messenger.
Oh, just stay a minute, you don't know Mr. Poe, this lady loved a young soldier, who died in a battle, and now she's marrying another man! No problem, it's just the author and his vision...
The Bridal Ballad was published for the first time on January 1837, by the Southern Literary Messenger.
September 4, 2014
Read as part of the volume Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems.
August 10, 2015
Amazing short poem
August 21, 2015
Otro precioso poema. <3
August 26, 2016
So beautiful!
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