Epithalamion

Even in his late "Epithalamion" he remains apart from the boys swimming in the river to bathe by himself, though Ford would have it that what he is doing is secretly ogling the boys.

'The Poet & the Wreck': An Exchange Ford, Mark 2009

Miss Heale, another London aspirant, is credited with "Epithalamion,"

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

And as for Spenser, the didactic symbolism of his "Faerie Queen" might be lost forever with no great disadvantage to posterity if his splendid "Epithalamion" could be preserved.

Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

Although beautiful, it is inferior to the "Epithalamion" on Spenser's own marriage—omitted with great reluctance as not in harmony with modern manners.

Notes: Book First. Palgrave, Francis T Francis T. Palgrave 1875

When Spenser poured forth his warmest love-notes in the "Epithalamion," he adopted the very words of the Psalmist, as he bade the gates open for the entrance of his bride.

History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860

So also in the "Epithalamion" it grates our nerves to hear,

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

"Epithalamion" of Donne, began now, when their voices were listened to, and their taste consulted, to determine that their poetical lovers should address them in strains more musical, if not more intelligible.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801

To the south, Spenser had his own bog, now a nature reserve, which among the lines wishing away all the bad things from the wedding night in 'Epithalamion', especially brings alive: "Ne let th'unpleasant Quyre of Frogs still croking/Make us to wish theyr choking."

Early Modern Whale 2010

I cannot at this time remember what was the spark that fired the train of his poetical tendencies, -- I do not remember what was the first signalized poetry he read; but he must have given me unmistakable tokens of his bent of taste; otherwise, at that early stage of his career, I never could have read to him the "Epithalamion" of Spenser; and this I perfectly remember having done, and in that (to me) hallowed old arbor, the scene of many bland and graceful associations, -- all the substances having passed away.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

"Epithalamion," and in the century that followed inspired "John

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman