Meanings of epithalamium in anglès

The comedy winds up with the epithalamium in honour of the nuptials.

We shall have a wedding and I will write an epithalamium.

Come, Solon, take a social drop, and give us an epithalamium in your best Greek.

The epithalamium had been followed by the dirge.

Love is the burden of all Nature's odes,-thesong of the birds an epithalamium, a hymeneal.

He has ordered me to write your epithalamium.

He hastens to embrace the new-married couple, and singing an epithalamium, the dithyrambic epicure enchanted the company.

And no more circles for me, my dear; and here I conclude, and my next shall be the epithalamium.

No one is born a baitman, I don't think, but the rings of Saturn sing epithalamium the sea-beast's dower.

No epithalamium then, but a marriage-hymn of long retrospect, this is a collection which is unabashedly joyful, univocal and sincere.

He laughs at Statius, who congratulated himself that he employed only two days in composing the epithalamium upon Stella, containing two hundred and seventy-eight hexameters.

In one brief passage, Marlowe did more than all poets since Stesichorus, or, at least since the epithalamium of Theocritus, for the glory of Helen.

Sulamith's epithalamium, Assad's narrative, the choral greeting to the Queen, the fateful recognition-allthese things are made for music of the inspiring, swelling, passionate kind.

Their friends sing a merry rollicking catch outside, the Epithalamium.

The second is an Epithalamium composed for a drama which his friend Williams was writing.

From those votaries of Hymen who were honoured with his epithalamiums, he received a small reward.