Bridegroom

Famous quotes containing the word bridegroom:

“Having interr’d her Infant-birth,
The watry ground that late did mourn,
Was strew’d with flow’rs for the return
Of the wish’d Bridegroom of the earth.”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)

“In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm XIX (l. XIX, 4–5)

“Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)