Havisham bite awake. Love's hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake. Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon. Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks. Havisham "Havisham" is a poem written in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy. It responds to Charles Dickens' character "Miss Havisham" from his novel "Great Expectations", looking at Havisham's mental and physical state many decades after being left standing at the altar, when the bride-to-be is in her old age. It expresses Havisham's anger at her fiancé and her bitter rage over
Wedding Day (Courtney Love song) switch between a sneer and a raw scream". Chris Martins of "Spin" referred to "Wedding Day" as "a curdled bowl of snarled vocals, grinding guitar, and pounding rhythm" in which Love "sounds plenty authoritative". Wedding Day (Courtney Love song) "Wedding Day" is a song by the American alternative rock musician Courtney Love. It is the first single from her upcoming second studio album "Died Blonde", and was released on May 4, 2014, packaged as a double A-side single with the song "You Know My Name". Originally intended for release as a single backed with the song "California", "Wedding Day"s lyrics