wedding quilt poems????
kar...@ix.netcom.com
Howdy! I've seen (and saved somewhere!!) the poems about quilts for
babies. Does anyone know about any poems for quilts to be given as a
wedding present??
If I had Phebe's touch with words I might try and write one myself,
but.... about the only thing I can think of is to try and describe the
love that went into the quilt. and somehow make it seem that the love
is a renewable resource within the quilt, that can be called upon during
the marriage as needed. sounds corny, doesn't it...
i might be able to come up with something better if this wasn't my
'quilting marathon' week. i only started this quilt last april. the
wedding shower for my BIL is *this sunday*.... it is going to go down
to the wire, but i think i will make it. my toes are getting ready for
a happy dance by saturday....
anyway, if anyone has any poem suggestions, i would greatly appreciat
it!!!
kathy from tx
Liz
kar...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Hi Kathy! If no one comes up with a suitable poem (which would be hard to
believe with all the talent that floats around here) I'd suggest you call your
local library and speak with the Reference Librarian. I can't begin to tell you
how many times they've saved my bacon--a terrific bunch of people. Good luck!
(If you find one, would you please post it here?) Best wishes, Liz
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Merry Stahel
I've always intended to cross-stitch or quilt this saying from my
SIL's wedding:
On this day, I married my friend
The one who shares my dreams,
my life and my love
There is E.B. Browning's poem:
HOW DO I LOVE THEE?
You can find it in any book of poetry - I'd type it out, but
although I remember the poem, I can't remember the proper punctuation.
(Used to have it hanging on my bedroom wall).
And one of the best is from the Song Of Songs, Solomon:
Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
As a seal upon thine arm
For love is strong as death
Jealousy as cruel as the grave
Many waters cannot quench love
Neither can floods drown it
If a man offered, for love,
All the wealth of his house
It would be utterly scorned
Madeline L'Engle - the writer of the "Wrinkle In Time" series - used
the theme of "Many Waters" for the book in the series about Sandy and
Dennys, Charles Wallace and Meg's twin brothers.
An old one - I think it's from Robert Frost:
Oh, my love's like a red, red rose
That sweetly blooms in spring
Oh, my love's like a melody
That sweetly sings in spring
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass (or lad)
So deep in love am I
I will come again my love, though it were ten thousand mile....
HTH
Merry
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Ruth Evans
>and somehow make it seem that the love
>is a renewable resource within the quilt, that can be called upon during
>the marriage as needed. sounds corny, doesn't it...
Not at all! I think it is a lovely sentiment.
--
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Tracey and John Winbigler
Kathy wrote:
>> anyway, if anyone has any poem suggestions, i would greatly appreciat
>> it!!!
Kathy, I don't know whether you want a poem from you (the quilter) to the
couple or a poem between them. If you want the poem to be between them,
you might be able to ask the bride or groom if they're using any songs in
their ceremony and look at the lyrics, and choose a stanza or two.
But if you want one from you to them, here are a couple that i especially
like from Carrie Hall and Rose Kretsinger's _Romance of the Patchwork
Quilt_:
1.
EACH STITCH
The stitches in this quilt-patch rare,
Were patiently made with loving care;
If each thought put forth were as perfect and true,
It would make a grand world for me and you.
(by Ida H. Frederick)
2.
Life is like a patchwork quilt
And each little patch is a day,
Some patches are rosy, happy and bright,
And some are dark and gray.
But each little patch as it's fitted in
And sewn to keep it together
Makes a finished block in this life of ours
Filled with sun, and with rainy weather.
So let me work on Life's patchwork quilt
Through the rainy days and the sun限
Trusting that when I have finished my block
The Master may say: "Well done."
(by Elizabeth Ryan DeCoursey)
*you might be able to take a little license with the last stanza
above..."So let [us]"...Trusting that when [we] have finished [our
blocks]"
I love poetry!
Tracey Winbigler
Nann Blaine Hilyard
>An old one - I think it's from Robert Frost:
>Oh, my love's like a red, red rose
>That sweetly blooms in spring
>Oh, my love's like a melody
>That sweetly sings in spring
>As fair art thou, my bonnie lass (or lad)
>So deep in love am I
>I will come again my love, though it were ten thousand mile....
Ach, Merry, it's nae Robert Frost but Robbie Burrrrrrnnsss.
(Thus supplying the answer before Jack Campion gets
here.)
Nann
....whose DH reminds her that while SHE is a Scot (with a
tincture of Welsh), HE is a Sassenach all the way back
on both sides, whereupon SHE reminds him that one of
those Vermont great-great grandfathers was one Narcisse
Moreau who slipped over the border from Quebec about 1847....
Jack Campin
hil...@pol.org (Nann Blaine Hilyard) writes:
>> An old one - I think it's from Robert Frost:
>> Oh, my love's like a red, red rose [...]
> Ach, Merry, it's nae Robert Frost but Robbie Burrrrrrnnsss.
> (Thus supplying the answer before Jack Campin gets here.)
Sort of. In fact Burns didn't do much more than tidy up an older song
and put a different tune to it; the original words, with their tune, and
the tune Burns put to them instead ("He's low down, he's in the broom")
were all written at least 50 years before Burns was born. Burns was often
kinda like a quilter in words and music, slicing up bits of the folk
tradition and putting them back together in different arrangements. This
particular one was more like patching holes than a new design, though.
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Mchad702
I don't know how you might use this but Since people are sharing poems here is
my all time favorite:
DID YOU EVER
Did you ever know that God above
Created you for me to love?
He picked you out from all the rest,
Because he knew I loved you best.
And if I'm in heaven before you're there,
I'll carry your name on a golden chair.
If you're not there on judgement day,
I'll know you went the other way.
I'll give the angels back their wings
And give up hearing the songs they sing.
And just to show what love can do
I will go below and search for you.
Just wanted to share. Maybe if you like this you can finnd a way of using it.
Marty............
Lyman Morgan
Shakespeare always does it for me... Lyman and I used this fragment from Sonnet
116 on our wedding program, and I plan to use it on the label for the quilt (that
I am still quilting on one year later) that I gave him as a wedding gift.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
kar...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Howdy! I've seen (and saved somewhere!!) the poems about quilts for
> babies. Does anyone know about any poems for quilts to be given as a
> wedding present??
>
> If I had Phebe's touch with words I might try and write one myself,
> but.... about the only thing I can think of is to try and describe the
> love that went into the quilt. and somehow make it seem that the love
> is a renewable resource within the quilt, that can be called upon during
> the marriage as needed. sounds corny, doesn't it...
>
> i might be able to come up with something better if this wasn't my
> 'quilting marathon' week. i only started this quilt last april. the
> wedding shower for my BIL is *this sunday*.... it is going to go down
> to the wire, but i think i will make it. my toes are getting ready for
> a happy dance by saturday....
>
> anyway, if anyone has any poem suggestions, i would greatly appreciat
> it!!!
>
> kathy from tx
Pam
That's nice, I like it.....
Pam (near Seattle)
Lyman Morgan wrote in message <350026A1...@ziplink.net>...
Jack Campin
Lyman Morgan <lmo...@ziplink.net> writes:
> kar...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> I've seen (and saved somewhere!!) the poems about quilts for babies.
>> Does anyone know about any poems for quilts to be given as a wedding
>> present??
[Shakespeare Sonnet 116]
> Let me not to the marriage of true minds
> Admit impediments...
There is an alternative take on this, I think it's either from Mark
Twain or Oscar Wilde:
Let me not to the marriage of true impediments
Admit minds...
(A *little* more seriously, take a look at some of the poems of
e.e. cummings; not everybody would appreciate them but I can't see
there being such a thing as a one-size-fits-all quilt poem anyway).
Kate McCollough
I agree with Jack's suggestion! I have a poem on my web page by ee
cummings called "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in".
I do love it..and I might even use it for a quilt for sweetie when I rev up
to do one for him! hmmm.. lemme see if I can copy it into this post...
(hope I haven't broken any copyright laws!!)
Enjoy!
Kate
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
by ee cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
--From 95 Poems (1958)
Jack Campin <ja...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
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Ruth Evans
Your poem reminds me of something I've said for years. I no longer have a
heart. It beats outside of my body in a little 35 lb bundle of black fur
with the cutest brownest eyes you ever saw.
BTW - March 31 is the happiest day of the year. It is Adoption Day. My
family knows it if far more important than birthdays or Christmas. It is
the day that I celebrate adopting Princess.
--
Ruth
"I have been deceived, distraught and devastated by friends, but I have
never been deserted by my dog." - Robert E. Winslow
**Princess - Cutest Wiggle Tail Ever!
**Anne McCaffrey - Master Word Crafter
Kate McCollough wrote in message <01bd4a7b$835a2dc0$e7332581@licenceu>...
>I agree with Jack's suggestion! I have a poem on my web page by ee
>cummings called "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in".
>
>I do love it..and I might even use it for a quilt for sweetie when I rev up
>to do one for him! hmmm.. lemme see if I can copy it into this post...
>(hope I haven't broken any copyright laws!!)
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Kate
>
>i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
[snip]
Pam
oh, that one's nice too.....
pam(near seattle, lower case in honor of e.e.cummings)
Kate McCollough wrote in message <01bd4a7b$835a2dc0$e7332581@licenceu>...
>I agree with Jack's suggestion! I have a poem on my web page by ee
>cummings called "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in".
>
>I do love it..and I might even use it for a quilt for sweetie when I rev up
>to do one for him! hmmm.. lemme see if I can copy it into this post...
>(hope I haven't broken any copyright laws!!)
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Kate
>
>i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
>
>by ee cummings
>
>
>i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
>my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
>i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
>by only me is your doing,my darling)
> i fear
>no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
>no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
>and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
>and whatever a sun will always sing is you
>
>here is the deepest secret nobody knows
>(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
>and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
>higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
>and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
>
>i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
>
>
>