What is bridegroom?

Famous quotes containing the word bridegroom:

    “I will be
    A bridegroom in my death, and run into’t
    As to a lover’s bed.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Lovers lying two and two
    Ask not whom they sleep beside,
    And the bridegroom all night through
    Never turns him to the bride.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “Having interr’d her Infant-birth,
    The watry ground that late did mourn,
    Was strew’d with flow’rs for the return
    Of the wish’d Bridegroom of the earth.”
    —Edward Herbert (1583–1648)