(Edmonds)
But as to-day the bridegroom disappears in the society column of the newspaper behind the splendor of the elaborate description of the bride’s gown, so in Sappho the praise of the bride is far sweeter than that of the bridegroom. Recall the lines of Rossetti and these verses in the metre of one of Catullus’ epithalamia:
Bride, thy shape is all delight
And thine eyes shine soft and bright,
O’er thy fair cheek desire is shed
And honor showered on thy head
From the Lady of Love in heaven.
(Edmonds)
Congratulations were offered also to the bridegroom:
No other maiden lives to-day,