Inspirational Marriage Poems

A poem's magic can weave love, joy and healing deep into a loved one's heart.

Use these inspirational love and marriage poems to help you express all that you feel for the one you love. Pull out a few lines from a poem that especially have meaning to you, and begin or end your love letter with them. A couple lines of inspirational poetry is all it takes to create a unique gift card and triple the value of a romantic gift. You can also use a poem in a romantic note that you slip into a drawer, purse or wallet. Or to inspire you during a tough time and help you remember what your marriage can be again. Included are two versions of the popular Recipe for a Happy Marriage Poem (also known as "Recipe for a Perfect Marriage" poem.

Marriage Quotes, Romantic Quotes and Funny Love & Marriage Quotes.

To Be One With Each Other

George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen
each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow,
to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other in the
silent unspoken memories?

Recipe for a Happy Marriage Poem I

Author Unknown
Mix one cup of overflowing love with faith in God and each other.
Never let bitter spirits brew overnight.
Sweeten with laughter and understanding.
Add daily prayer to hold these ingredients together.
Sift with respect and work towards a common dream.
Sprinkle generously with hugs and kisses.
Serve daily with a loving heart.
YIELD: Serves one happy marriage.

Recipe for a Happy Marriage Poem II

Author Unknown
1 Cup of Consideration
2 Cups of Praise
1 Small Pinch of In-Laws
1 Tablespoon of Contentment
1 Gallon of Patience
2 Tablespoons of Flattery
1 Cup of Encouragement
A dash of Faith and Trust

Take love and loyalty and mix thoroughly with faith. Blend in kindness and understanding. Add friendship and suprise, stirring well. Fold in passion alternating with an abundance of laughter. Bake with sunshine and rainbows. Garnish with forgiveness and thoughtfullness. Serve daily with generous helpings.
YIELD: Serves 2 for a lifetime.

Personalized "Recipe for a Happy Marriage" Gifts

A Good Wedding Cake

Author Unknown
4 lb. of love
1 lb. butter of youth
1/2 lb. of good looks
l lb. sweet temper
1 lb. of blindness for faults
1 lb. of self forgetfulness
l lb. of pounded wit
l lb. of good humour
2 tablespoons of sweet argument
1 pint of rippling laughter
1 wine glass of common sense
1 oz. modesty

Put the love, good looks and sweet temper into your home. Beat the butter of youth to a cream, and mix well together with the blindness of faults. Stir the pounded wit and good humour into the sweet argument, then add the rippling laughter and common sense. Work the whole together until everything is well mixed, and bake gently for ever.

I've Married One of Shakespeare's Dreams

Ogden Nash
Geniuses of countless nations
Have told their love for generations
Till all their memorable phrases
Are common as goldenrod or daisies.
Their girls have glimmered like the moon,
Or shimmered like a summer moon,
Stood like a lily, fled like a fawn,
Now the sunset, now the dawn,
Here the princess in the tower
There the sweet forbidden flower.
Darling, when I look at you
Every aged phrase is new,
And there are moments when it seems
I've married one of Shakespeare's dreams.

La Vita Nuova (excerpt)

Dante Alighieri
In that book which is
My memory...
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words...
Here begins a new life.

I Ching (Excerpt)

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts,
they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.
And when two people understand
each other in their inmost hearts,
their words are sweet and strong,
like the fragrance of orchids.

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Anne Bradstreet
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more then whole Mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
Then while we live, in love let's so persever,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

A Love Poem For My Wife

Joey Tolbert
I see you as a beautiful women of Kindness and love,
With a big heart for others that your always thinking of.
I love how you smile it makes your eyes shine and twinkle,
Or your laugh when its funny if its not just a wrinkle.
I love your way of hugging and holding me close,
Or staring at my face and smiling, loving me most.
You mean more to me than anything in life,
I'm happy the Lord did make you my wife.

I've looked for your love in all the wrong place,
But I find it in your eyes when I look at your face.
I love to remember our days in a Mexican paradise,
I never took you for granted and you always looked nice.
My heart sings songs of happiness when I'm in your heart,
And cries out for your love when we are apart.

I just need you to know that I always am here,
I will never leave your heart nor create any fear.
You gave me your heart and I gave you mine,
I hope that you love me till the end of time.
I want to die in your arms in a cabin by the woods
If I had one wish, I wish that I could.

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