About

For their wedding, Liz and Tom Sharp offered friends and family an opportunity to read love poems during the ceremony. Liz searched the literature and sent selections to possible readers.

Clifford Schwartz volunteered to read all the selections.
Gil Helmick read “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickenson.
Bill Vartnaw read “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron.
Gabrielle and Mike Seibel read “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe.
Jeffrey Kahrs read excerpts from the Song of Solomon.
Susan and Tom Garrison read 1 Corinthians, 13.
Clifford Schwartz read “Sonnet 116” by Shakespeare.

Subsequently, Clifford Schwartz emailed to Liz and Tom his readings of the poems that you can listen to in this book by clicking the photographs to the left of the titles.

Click a photo the left of the title to play a reading of the poem. Click a second time to stop the reading that is playing.

Clifford Joseph Schwartz is a teacher of Shakespeare and poetry, a consulting historian of poetry, and an actor and voiceover performer.

All photographs were taken by Jo Seese on 31 August 2008.

You may email lizandtom/AT/liztomsharp/DOT/-c-o-m-/ to share comments on this work.

Links and shortcuts

In any page, you can click on or touch links to jump around in this book.

Each entry in the contents links to the poem.
The title for a poem links back to the contents, highlighting the entry for the poem.
Words in the headers and footers link to the index, the contents, a listing of books by the author, to this page, and to the previous and next poems in the book.

You may find the following keyboard equivalents to be convenient. Here I use the symbol ⌥ for the option key on Mac/OS or the alt key on Windows, ⇧ for the shift key, and ⏎ for the return (enter) key. Arrow keys are ◄ (left), ► (right), ▲ (up), and ▼ (down).

Context	Keys	Jump to / Behavior
cover	⌥ ►	about this book (this page)
	⌥ ▼	contents
	⇧ ⌥ ▼	contents
contents	⇧ ⌥ ▲	cover
	⌥ ▼	select the next item in the contents
	⌥ ▲	select the previous item in the contents
	⌥ ►	open the selected page
	⌥ ⏎	open the selected page
poem	⇧ ⌥ ▲	contents
	⌥ ◄	contents
	⌥ ▲	open the previous page
	⌥ ▼	open the next page