epithalamia

Next in frequency are the applications for private literary contributions, -- such as epithalamia, obituaries, addresses for lovers, and the like.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

It is not known who was the fortunate orator, but we are familiar with the names of some of the poets who addressed epithalamia to the beautiful princess.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

Some were _epithalamia_, or songs composed to celebrate marriages; others to commemorate a victory, or the accession of a prince; to return thanks to the Deity, or to celebrate his praises; to lament a general calamity, or a private affliction; and others, again, were peculiar to their festive meetings.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The bride was lighted to bed by a number of torches, according to her quality; and the company returned in the morning to salute the new married couple, and to sing _epithalamia_ at the door of their bed-chamber.

Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous

Before the door of the bridal chamber epithalamia were sung, a charming specimen of which we possess in the bridal hymn of

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Lucretia was showered with sonnets and epithalamia.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

Two of his epithalamia, a form of composition rare in Irish literature, have been preserved.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent; epithalamia and lamentations; little satirical songs; odes of wonderful lyrism etc. The fundamental law of Hebrew poetry, the parallelism of the stichs, is usually observed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

While in no degree Shakespearian echoes, there are epithalamia and dirges of his that might properly have fallen from the lips of Posthumus in "Cymbeline."

Ponkapog Papers. 1904