In Memoriam — Imagery and Motifs: Widow, Wife

Jon Lanestedt, University of Oslo

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• Section 9: "whom I shall not see Till all my widowed race be run"
  
• Section 10: "Thou bring'st the sailor to his wife"
  
• Section 13: "Tears of the widower"
  
• Section 17: "him I shall not see Till all my widowed race be run"
  
• Section 40: "Could we forget the widowed hour"
  
• Section 40: "tidings of the bride"
  
• Section 59: "No casual mistress, but a wife"
  
• Section 59: "O Sorrow . . . sometimes lovely like a bride"
  
• Section 85: "My heart, though widowed, may not rest"
  
• Section 90: "would but find in child and wife An iron welcome"
  
• Section 97: "[I thought of] my spirit as of a wife"
  
• Epilogue: "the bridal flower, That must be made a wife ere noon"
  
• Epilogue: "Now waiting to be made a wife"
  
• Epilogue: "O happy hour, behold the bride"
  
• Epilogue: "drinking health to bride and groom"
  
• Epilogue: "touch with shade the bridal doors"

Related Materials

• "Tears of the Widower:" Love and Grief in In Memoriam

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