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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... Fairies James Whitcomb Riley : Little Orphant Annie 43 44 45 46 48 48 50 50 51 51 51 51 52 53 53 53 54 54 55 55 58 59 60 60 61 61 62 63 64 64 64 65 66 66 68 8888 70 68 vii THANKSGIVING Robert Herrick : Grace for a Child Traditional (
... Fairies James Whitcomb Riley : Little Orphant Annie 43 44 45 46 48 48 50 50 51 51 51 51 52 53 53 53 54 54 55 55 58 59 60 60 61 61 62 63 64 64 64 65 66 66 68 8888 70 68 vii THANKSGIVING Robert Herrick : Grace for a Child Traditional (
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Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. THANKSGIVING Robert Herrick : Grace for a Child Traditional ( trans . Harriet Maxwell Converse ) : The Thanksgivings Lydia Marie Child : The New - England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day John Greenleaf ...
Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. THANKSGIVING Robert Herrick : Grace for a Child Traditional ( trans . Harriet Maxwell Converse ) : The Thanksgivings Lydia Marie Child : The New - England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day John Greenleaf ...
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... Children's Hour 105 John Greenleaf Whittier : The Barefoot Boy 107 Walt Whitman : There Was a Child Went Forth 110 Robert Louis Stevenson : The Land of Nod 112 Robert Louis Stevenson : My Bed Is a Boat Federico García Lorca ( trans ...
... Children's Hour 105 John Greenleaf Whittier : The Barefoot Boy 107 Walt Whitman : There Was a Child Went Forth 110 Robert Louis Stevenson : The Land of Nod 112 Robert Louis Stevenson : My Bed Is a Boat Federico García Lorca ( trans ...
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... Child 229 231 Anonymous : O grief ! even on the bud that fairly flowered 231 Ben Jonson : On My First Son 231 Ben Jonson : Slow , slow , fresh fount 232 Henry Vaughan : They are all gone into the world of light 232 Yosa Buson ( trans ...
... Child 229 231 Anonymous : O grief ! even on the bud that fairly flowered 231 Ben Jonson : On My First Son 231 Ben Jonson : Slow , slow , fresh fount 232 Henry Vaughan : They are all gone into the world of light 232 Yosa Buson ( trans ...
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... child , thy choice and worthy the winning . GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ENGLISH ( 1844-1889 ) Spring Pools These pools that , though in forests , THE CYCLES The laughing leaves of the trees divide , Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring.
... child , thy choice and worthy the winning . GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ENGLISH ( 1844-1889 ) Spring Pools These pools that , though in forests , THE CYCLES The laughing leaves of the trees divide , Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring.
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.