7 Anniversary Poems

1. Your Wedding Anniversary
   Poet: Unknown
   
   You must be very happy
   As you start another year,
   And may it bring you both the things
   You hold especially dear,
   Including love and laughter,
   Best of health for both of you,
   And, always, lots of happiness
   In everything you do.




2. An Anniversary
   Poet: Grinnell Willis
   
   Full many an anniversary
   Has come to thee and me,
   Heartbreaking days have come with tears,
   And happy days, with joy and glee.
   
   We've had our clouds and sunshine.
   Our shadows and our light.
   But we've kept our love unsullied,
   Our affection warm and bright.
   
   Our fathers and our mothers,
   In word and thought and deed,
   Worked out their lives before us,
   Their simple honest creed;
   
   And we, by force of circumstance,
   Less simple in our way.
   Have wrought before our children
   Our life work, day by day.
   
   Our home like theirs has open been,
   Honest in thought and deed,
   To many friends a pleasure,
   To many a help in need.
   
   To manhood and to womanhood
   Our children here have grown,
   And with their children go and come
   About the dear Old Home.
   
   Oh! may we not rejoice
   To have lived so many years.
   And reaped this glad fruition
   Of all our hopes and fears.
   
   For more than thirty years
   We have lived and loved and striven.
   And now with grateful hearts
   Thank God, for all that he has given.




Wedding Anniversary Quotes



3. For My Wife
   Poet Unknown
   
   It's not enough to wish you
   Happy Anniversary, Dear
   For there are many other things
   That you've a right to hear -
   
   For instance, that you're wonderful,
   For instance, that you're sweet,
   For instance, that you've done so much
   To make my life complete.
   
   And, Dear, you know it's coming
   From my heart when I express
   My one enduring wish for you -
   A wish for happiness.




4. An Anniversary Wish
   Poet: Grinnell Willis
   
   May ever the golden blessing
   Be yours, and ne'er depart,
   And the love of friends who have been so true,
   Who are present now to rejoice with you,
   Be found in every heart.




5. Marriage Hymn
   Poet: Caleb Davis Bradlee
   
   Two, Lord, at thine altar wait,
   A blessing to receive;
   Humbly they would unite their fate,
   If thou wilt give them leave.
   
   Their hands they join, their hearts they blend,
   One journey now they take;
   They pray their love may have no end,
   They ask it for Christ's sake.




Irish Wedding Blessing



6. Full Of Memories
   Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
   
   Before you know it an anniversary arrives,
   Full of memories, where meaning thrives.
   A marker in time, memories of roads we did tread,
   We remember the joys and the tears we've shed.
   
   We look back and we look forward to what we face
   Celebrating the journey, every joyous trace.
   For on this day, we honor with might,
   And celebrate this anniversary with sheer delight.




Anniversary Quotes



7. Sunshine And Storms
   Poet: Sarah A. Thomas
   
   Twelve years of sunshine and of storms
   Since first our lives were joined in one;
   But had the sky no threatening clouds,
   We would forget to prize the sun.
   With life one joyous summer-day,
   And, gliding down life's quiet stream,
   We would not note our rapid flight
   Were there no landmarks by the way.
   
   I would not call to memory now
   The sorrows of those vanished years
   (Our steps led through affliction's path,
   Bordered by bitter falling tears);
   But I would have you think today
   Of all that made life seem most dear,
   Of hopes that tint with pleasing ray
   The prospects of the coming year.
   
   It seems that those who love are doomed
   Affliction's bitterest cup to drain,
   As if they with their mutual strength
   Were better formed to bear the pain;
   Or it may be, had fortune smiled,
   Our love with years had colder grown:
   Yours might have followed fancy's paths,
   And I have doubted e'en my own.
   
   Perhaps that Fate has been more kind
   Than we, dear heart, shall ever know;
   The purest gem may worthless seem
   If scanned by firelight's fitful glow.
   Then at our lot we'll not repine,
   Though cold and dreary seem the way,
   But journey on, heart joined to heart,
   Until we find the perfect day.