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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... friendship and contentment ; the working life ; farewells ; sufferings shared or undergone in solitude ; and endurance . Finally , the last part , " Public Moments and Ultimate Matters , " includes poems that address our public lives in ...
... friendship and contentment ; the working life ; farewells ; sufferings shared or undergone in solitude ; and endurance . Finally , the last part , " Public Moments and Ultimate Matters , " includes poems that address our public lives in ...
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... friend in a poem about a veteran of the Roman imperial army ( by Horace ) or a courtier of ancient China ( by Ezra Pound ) . The pleasures of a midwinter dinner party might be marked by the late medieval trappings of Thomas Campion's ...
... friend in a poem about a veteran of the Roman imperial army ( by Horace ) or a courtier of ancient China ( by Ezra Pound ) . The pleasures of a midwinter dinner party might be marked by the late medieval trappings of Thomas Campion's ...
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... friend to supper while assuring him that there would be no government spies among the guests to eavesdrop on their conversation . During the draft riots of 1863 Herman Melville contemplated the breakdown of law and order from a rooftop ...
... friend to supper while assuring him that there would be no government spies among the guests to eavesdrop on their conversation . During the draft riots of 1863 Herman Melville contemplated the breakdown of law and order from a rooftop ...
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... moment promises a singularity , a uniqueness of fate , an emerging possibility of something altogether untried . That possibility may , as in the budding of friendship or pas- sionate desire , be of a splendid fulfillment ; it xxxi.
... moment promises a singularity , a uniqueness of fate , an emerging possibility of something altogether untried . That possibility may , as in the budding of friendship or pas- sionate desire , be of a splendid fulfillment ; it xxxi.
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... friend of the maturing sun ; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch - eaves run ; To bend with apples the mossed cottage - trees , And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the ...
... friend of the maturing sun ; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch - eaves run ; To bend with apples the mossed cottage - trees , And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the ...
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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.