Book, Chapter

 1   1    |   story of Rama's winning his bride, and of the marriage of
 2   1, 3 |      weapon, he the beauteous bride shall wed!~Rama strained
 3   1, 6 |    laws require,~Stepped each bride and princely bridegroom
 4   1, 6 |      every bridegroom led his bride,~And the nuptial rites were
 5   1, 7 |   loving, greeted every happy bride,~Soft-eyed Sita noble-destined,
 6   2, 6 |        Kaikeyi, when a gentle bride you came,~By a wife's unfailing
 7   3, 6 |     the three worlds rolling, bride and empress of the sea,~
 8   4, 6 |     broke the bow and won the bride,~How by Queen Kaikeyi's
 9   5, 4 |       royal Rama dear,~Like a bride the beauteous season doth
10   6, 2 |   would'st thou be a vassal's bride?~Rather be his younger consort,
11   6, 5 |  other destiny is thine,~As a bride beloved and courted in thy
12   6, 5 |        be a monarch's queenly bride!~Speak thy lineage, heaven-descended!
13   6, 7 |        Ravan fled with Rama's bride,~Where amidst the boundless
14   8, 4 |    her hair,~When she came my bride and consort decked in beauty
15   8, 4 | stature high,~Ah, methinks my bride and consort, she who wore
16   9, 7 |     Rama, widowed Sita be thy bride!"~
17  10, 7 |    combat widowed Sita as thy bride!"~Slow and sullen, dark
18  10, 12|      Ravan's first and eldest bride,~Mandodari, slender-waisted,
19  11, 1 |    combats for a sin-polluted bride?~Hast thou, Rama, all forgotten?--
20  12, 5 |    virtue, be again my loving bride!"~Gods and Spirits, bright