The Song of Soloman

Clearly in love, the girl is full of joy at her wedding.

Song of Solomon 1:2-4
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
for thy love is better than wine.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments
thy name is as ointment poured forth,
therefore do the virgins love thee.
Draw me, we will run after thee:
the king hath brought me into his chambers:
we will be glad and rejoice in thee,
we will remember thy love more than wine:
the upright love thee"

Solomon is also in love and he tells his bride how beautiful she is as they lie ouside.

Song of Solomon 1:14-17
"My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
Behold, thou art fair, my love;
behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant:
also our bed is green.
The beams of our house are cedar,
and our rafters of fir"

Easter, when Jesus rose from the dead, is in springtime. Spring is a symbol of beginnings and the bride is recalling the beginnings of their love.

Song of Solomon 2:8-13
"The voice of my beloved!
behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains,
skipping upon the hills.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:
behold, he standeth behind our wall,
he looketh forth at the windows,
shewing himself through the lattice.
My beloved spake, and said unto me,
Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
the flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
the fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away"

In one verse the bride speaks to them and asks them not to wake her groom.

Song of Solomon 3:5
"I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, and by the hinds of the field,
that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please"

Song of Solomon 3:6-8
"Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all powders of the merchant?
Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s;
threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
They all hold swords, being expert in war:
every man hath his sword upon his thigh
because of fear in the night."

We are also told of the chariot Solomon is riding. It is made from Lebanese wood with silver posts, a gold canopy and purple seats. Purple was a very expensive dye in those days

She asks the winds to spread the scent of her garden into the air for her love to smell.

Song of Solomon 4:16
"Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south;
blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Let my beloved come into his garden,
and eat his pleasant fruits"

After this experience the bride was, understandably, fed up with love.

Song of Solomon 5:6-8
"I opened to my beloved;
but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone:
my soul failed when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
The watchmen that went about the city found me,
they smote me, they wounded me;
the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved,
that ye tell him, that I am sick of love"

Song of Solomon 6:13
"Return, return, O Shulamite;
return, return, that we may look upon thee.
What will ye see in the Shulamite?
As it were the company of two armies."

A Shulamite is someone from Shulem. We don't know for sure who Solomon's bride was but she may have been Abishag, a Shulamite mentioned in the First Book of Kings

He is obviously still in love with his wife!

Song of Solomon 7:1-6
"How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter!
the joints of thy thighs are like jewels,
the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor:
thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory;
thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim:
thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel,
and the hair of thine head like purple;
the king is held in the galleries.
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!"

Song of Solomon 8:13-14
"Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
the companions hearken to thy voice:
cause me to hear it.
Make haste, my beloved,
and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart
upon the mountains of spices."

A happy ending to a beautiful song