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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Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. OF NATURE 16 O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty . how often have religions ...
Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. OF NATURE 16 O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty . how often have religions ...
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... I woo the wind That still delays his coming . Why so slow , Gentle and voluble spirit of the air ? Oh , come and breathe upon the fainting earth Coolness and life . Is it that in his caves OF NATURE 20 | The pine is bending his proud.
... I woo the wind That still delays his coming . Why so slow , Gentle and voluble spirit of the air ? Oh , come and breathe upon the fainting earth Coolness and life . Is it that in his caves OF NATURE 20 | The pine is bending his proud.
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... earth , and I to people it alone . It rains across the country I remember . TRUMBULL STICKNEY AMERICAN ( 1874-1904 ) November Night Listen . . With faint dry sound , Like steps of passing ghosts , The leaves , frost - crisp'd , break ...
... earth , and I to people it alone . It rains across the country I remember . TRUMBULL STICKNEY AMERICAN ( 1874-1904 ) November Night Listen . . With faint dry sound , Like steps of passing ghosts , The leaves , frost - crisp'd , break ...
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... She's glad the birds are gone away , She's glad her simple worsted grey Is silver now with clinging mist . The desolate , deserted trees , The faded earth , THE CYCLES Knows what has happened . Now , today , watching.
... She's glad the birds are gone away , She's glad her simple worsted grey Is silver now with clinging mist . The desolate , deserted trees , The faded earth , THE CYCLES Knows what has happened . Now , today , watching.
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... earth , the heavy sky , The beauties she so truly sees , She thinks I have no eye for these , And vexes me for reason why . Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow ; But it were vain ...
... earth , the heavy sky , The beauties she so truly sees , She thinks I have no eye for these , And vexes me for reason why . Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow ; But it were vain ...
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25 | |
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.