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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... break their dances 133 A. E. Housman : Loveliest of trees , the cherry now 133 Ernest Dowson : Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Edna St. Vincent Millay : First Fig 134 134 Haniel Long : Daphnis and Chloe 135 Dylan ...
... break their dances 133 A. E. Housman : Loveliest of trees , the cherry now 133 Ernest Dowson : Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Edna St. Vincent Millay : First Fig 134 134 Haniel Long : Daphnis and Chloe 135 Dylan ...
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... Break , break , break 239 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Dark house , by which once more I stand 240 Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Grief 240 Robert Browning : May and Death 241 Matthew Arnold : Requiescat Oscar Wilde : Requiescat Thomas Hardy ...
... Break , break , break 239 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Dark house , by which once more I stand 240 Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Grief 240 Robert Browning : May and Death 241 Matthew Arnold : Requiescat Oscar Wilde : Requiescat Thomas Hardy ...
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... Breaking of Nations " Rudyard Kipling : Recessional William Shakespeare : When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd William Wordsworth : On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic Robert Browning : Love among the Ruins 413 414 414 ...
... Breaking of Nations " Rudyard Kipling : Recessional William Shakespeare : When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd William Wordsworth : On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic Robert Browning : Love among the Ruins 413 414 414 ...
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... breaks out in blue leaves . This impressionist vision of sound turning into sight , noise into color , is a true occasion , a private one which suddenly radiates outward to include all readers . Or take the chill conveyed by this ...
... breaks out in blue leaves . This impressionist vision of sound turning into sight , noise into color , is a true occasion , a private one which suddenly radiates outward to include all readers . Or take the chill conveyed by this ...
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... Breaks up with mingling of unnumbered sounds And universal motion . He is come , Shaking a shower of blossoms from the ... break Into small waves and sparkle as he comes . WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT AMERICAN ( 1794-1878 ) I hear a river thro ...
... Breaks up with mingling of unnumbered sounds And universal motion . He is come , Shaking a shower of blossoms from the ... break Into small waves and sparkle as he comes . WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT AMERICAN ( 1794-1878 ) I hear a river thro ...
Índice
3 | |
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.