epithalamium

In the hands of the poets the epithalamium was developed into a special literary form, and received considerable cultivation.

At the close of In Memoriam Tennyson has appended a poem, on the nuptials of his sister, which is strictly an epithalamium.

The second alone can decide, whether it will conclude the piece with an epithalamium—or a requiem!'

Fragments of his other pieces are preserved in Stobaeus; the epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia is not his.