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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... gone to war ? What poems will be appropriate to console a mourning and bereft family and serve as an inspired eulogy ? Organized into five parts - the Cycles of Nature , the Round of the Year , the Cycles of Life , the Human Condition ...
... gone to war ? What poems will be appropriate to console a mourning and bereft family and serve as an inspired eulogy ? Organized into five parts - the Cycles of Nature , the Round of the Year , the Cycles of Life , the Human Condition ...
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... gone into the world of light 232 Yosa Buson ( trans . Harold Henderson ) : What piercing cold I feel John Milton : On His Deceased Wife 234 234 Sir Walter Scott : Coronach 234 William Wordsworth : Surprised by joy - impatient as the ...
... gone into the world of light 232 Yosa Buson ( trans . Harold Henderson ) : What piercing cold I feel John Milton : On His Deceased Wife 234 234 Sir Walter Scott : Coronach 234 William Wordsworth : Surprised by joy - impatient as the ...
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... top 446 Paul Laurence Dunbar : The Colored Soldiers 447 John Greenleaf Whittier : Barbara Frietchie 449 Walt Whitman : Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 452 Walt Whitman : Reconciliation Anonymous Spiritual : Many Thousand Gone.
... top 446 Paul Laurence Dunbar : The Colored Soldiers 447 John Greenleaf Whittier : Barbara Frietchie 449 Walt Whitman : Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 452 Walt Whitman : Reconciliation Anonymous Spiritual : Many Thousand Gone.
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... Gone Francis Miles Finch : The Blue and the Gray 453 453 454 Richard Eberhart : The Fury of Aerial Bombardment 456 John Ciardi : A Box Comes Home 457 GOD 457 Mary Herbert , Countess of Pembroke : Each inmost piece in me is thine 457 ...
... Gone Francis Miles Finch : The Blue and the Gray 453 453 454 Richard Eberhart : The Fury of Aerial Bombardment 456 John Ciardi : A Box Comes Home 457 GOD 457 Mary Herbert , Countess of Pembroke : Each inmost piece in me is thine 457 ...
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... A great passion might be shared with John Donne in a world where , only recently , " sea - discoverers to new worlds have gone . " The faith of poetry is that INTRODUCTION inner truths , the hard - won structures of xxviii | INTRODUCTION.
... A great passion might be shared with John Donne in a world where , only recently , " sea - discoverers to new worlds have gone . " The faith of poetry is that INTRODUCTION inner truths , the hard - won structures of xxviii | INTRODUCTION.
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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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Bartlett's Poems for Occasions Geoffrey O'Brien,Billy Collins No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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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
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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.