Ambrose Bierce

Here you will find thePoemThe Brideof poet Ambrose Bierce

The Bride

?YOU know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house,? Divorced old barren Reason from my bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to spouse.? So sang the Lord of Poets. In a gleam Of light that made her like an angel seem, The Daughter of the Vine said: ?I myself Am Reason, and the Other was a Dream.?