Bartlett's Poems for OccasionsLittle, Brown, 2007/09/03 - 544 ページ Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance -- from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say? |
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... readers . Or take the chill conveyed by this untitled little poem by Buson : What piercing cold I feel : my dead wife's comb , in our bedroom , under my heel ... How could any formal elegy on , say , the Duke of Bedford , do more to ...
... readers . Or take the chill conveyed by this untitled little poem by Buson : What piercing cold I feel : my dead wife's comb , in our bedroom , under my heel ... How could any formal elegy on , say , the Duke of Bedford , do more to ...
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... readers can also browse within for poems to suit any mood , time of year , or predica- ment - poems to augment personal moments , to pluck them from the rush of time . Plus , poems are always offering the reader the opportunity to ...
... readers can also browse within for poems to suit any mood , time of year , or predica- ment - poems to augment personal moments , to pluck them from the rush of time . Plus , poems are always offering the reader the opportunity to ...
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... readers have in a sense imparted to them . On the other hand , I have allowed ample space to the less familiar — to ... reader might turn to them , occasions that seem to call for words beyond what we can ourselves easily articulate : a ...
... readers have in a sense imparted to them . On the other hand , I have allowed ample space to the less familiar — to ... reader might turn to them , occasions that seem to call for words beyond what we can ourselves easily articulate : a ...
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... Readers of poetry perform a similar operation . No two people will find the same things in the same poems , or for the same reasons . The categories here are rough signposts , but it is for the reader to decide when it is an appropriate ...
... Readers of poetry perform a similar operation . No two people will find the same things in the same poems , or for the same reasons . The categories here are rough signposts , but it is for the reader to decide when it is an appropriate ...
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... readers , poetry had a private , domestic aspect ; poems were sung or recited in intimate circumstances and car- ried ... reader , to be evoked at will whenever needed . In classrooms poems become objects to be dissected according to ...
... readers , poetry had a private , domestic aspect ; poems were sung or recited in intimate circumstances and car- ried ... reader , to be evoked at will whenever needed . In classrooms poems become objects to be dissected according to ...
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VALENTINES | 41 |
CELEBRATING FAMILY | 51 |
THE FOURTH OF JULY | 61 |
THE CHRISTMAS SEASON | 78 |
YOUTH AND ITS PLEASURES | 123 |
INTO ADULTHOOD | 136 |
Why so pale and wan fond lover | 305 |
To | 311 |
Wild Nights | 317 |
SEPARATIONS AND FAREWELLS | 341 |
SOLITUDE | 361 |
These | 391 |
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING | 400 |
Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors | 407 |
MARRIAGE | 146 |
Still Here | 177 |
RETIREMENT FROM WORK AND FROM THE WORLD | 183 |
Leisure | 189 |
His Execution | 215 |
On the Death of | 231 |
Sleep brings no joy | 237 |
Requiescat | 243 |
THE HUMAN CONDITION | 251 |
CONTENTMENT | 265 |
THE WORKING LIFE | 272 |
LOVE AND PASSION | 282 |
When in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes | 293 |
The Ecstasy | 299 |
THE FATES OF NATIONS AND EMPIRES | 413 |
IN TIME OF WAR | 420 |
FROM THE AMERICAN STORY | 437 |
Reconciliation | 453 |
THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWABLE | 472 |
Heart of Autumn | 486 |
73 | 495 |
21 | 496 |
26 | 502 |
78 | 505 |
83 | 83 |
89 | 89 |
96 | 96 |
The Sky is low the Clouds are mean | 130 |
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A. E. HOUSMAN AMERICAN ARTHUR WALEY auld auld lang syne beautiful birds blue breath buyer Chapter client cold communication components CONDITION cuckoo dark dead death doth dream E. E. CUMMINGS earth eyes fall fire flowers friends gone green grief hand happy hath hear heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hill home inspectors inspection kiss laugh leaves light live look Lord mind MOMENTS AND ULTIMATE moon morning never night o'er Oh stay pleasure poems rain Ring river ROBERT ROBERT FROST roof rose round seller shadows silence sing sleep smile snow song soul spring stars summer sweet tell thee things thou thought TRANSLATED trees TRUMBULL STICKNEY ULTIMATE MATTERS VINCENT MILLAY voice wild WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind winter wood youth
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25 ページ - To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.