An epithalamium is a poem written for one of these occasions, like the one John Masefield wrote for Nov. 20, 1947
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Lee, Janet Lewis; an essay of the poetry of John Masefield by John... [DOC] [TLE] Harvard and Yale Poetry Culture between the World Wars [PAR] These few extracted stanzas give a sense of the more or less blatant 
undercurrent of ... [W]e like that not any of Poems' fifty-one pages fails to impress 
us with an .... the following poem by John Brooks Wheelwright, '20 (not in 
Collected Poems): ...