Bartlett's Poems for OccasionsLittle, Brown, 3 sept 2007 - 544 páginas 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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... Robert Herrick : Corinna's Going a - Maying 3 5 556 Robert Herrick : To Daffodils 7 9 Thomas Carew : The Spring William Blake : To Spring 10 William Wordsworth : Lines Written in Early Spring Robert Browning : Home - Thoughts , from ...
... Robert Herrick : Corinna's Going a - Maying 3 5 556 Robert Herrick : To Daffodils 7 9 Thomas Carew : The Spring William Blake : To Spring 10 William Wordsworth : Lines Written in Early Spring Robert Browning : Home - Thoughts , from ...
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... Robert Penn Warren : Heart of Autumn Robert Frost : My November Guest 18 19 21 22 22 23 24 25 25 25 22 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 20 20 26 27 28 28 WINTER William Shakespeare : When icicles hang by the wall William Shakespeare : Blow , blow ...
... Robert Penn Warren : Heart of Autumn Robert Frost : My November Guest 18 19 21 22 22 23 24 25 25 25 22 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 20 20 26 27 28 28 WINTER William Shakespeare : When icicles hang by the wall William Shakespeare : Blow , blow ...
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... Robert Louis Stevenson : To My Mother Charles Reznikoff : My grandfather , dead long before I was born Robert Hayden : Those Winter Sundays Margaret Walker : Lineage Langston Hughes : Mother to Son E. E. Cummings : my father moved ...
... Robert Louis Stevenson : To My Mother Charles Reznikoff : My grandfather , dead long before I was born Robert Hayden : Those Winter Sundays Margaret Walker : Lineage Langston Hughes : Mother to Son E. E. Cummings : my father moved ...
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... Robert Southwell : New Prince , New Pomp Robert Herrick : Come , bring with a noise 72 72 72 73 75 77 78 78 79 79 80 81 83 Clement C. Moore : A Visit from St. Nicholas Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Christmas Bells William Makepeace ...
... Robert Southwell : New Prince , New Pomp Robert Herrick : Come , bring with a noise 72 72 72 73 75 77 78 78 79 79 80 81 83 Clement C. Moore : A Visit from St. Nicholas Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Christmas Bells William Makepeace ...
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... Robert Louis Stevenson : The Land of Nod 112 Robert Louis Stevenson : My Bed Is a Boat Federico García Lorca ( trans . Harriet de Onís ) : Silly Song William Butler Yeats : A Prayer for My Daughter 113 113 114 E. E. Cummings : in Just ...
... Robert Louis Stevenson : The Land of Nod 112 Robert Louis Stevenson : My Bed Is a Boat Federico García Lorca ( trans . Harriet de Onís ) : Silly Song William Butler Yeats : A Prayer for My Daughter 113 113 114 E. E. Cummings : in Just ...
Índice
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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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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - 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.