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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... 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 . Harriet de ...
... 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 . Harriet de ...
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... hour since ; yet you not drest , Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have matins said , And sung their thankful hymns ; ' tis sin , Nay , profanation to keep in , Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring sooner than ...
... hour since ; yet you not drest , Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have matins said , And sung their thankful hymns ; ' tis sin , Nay , profanation to keep in , Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring sooner than ...
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... hours do , and dry Away , Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again . ROBERT HERRICK ENGLISH ( 1591-1674 ) SPRING | 9 The Spring Now that the Winter's gone , the earth hath lost Her snow ...
... hours do , and dry Away , Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again . ROBERT HERRICK ENGLISH ( 1591-1674 ) SPRING | 9 The Spring Now that the Winter's gone , the earth hath lost Her snow ...
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... hours by hours . Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay , where are they ? Think not of them , thou hast thy music too , While barred clouds bloom the soft - dying day , And touch the stubble - plains with rosy hue ; Then in a wailful choir ...
... hours by hours . Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay , where are they ? Think not of them , thou hast thy music too , While barred clouds bloom the soft - dying day , And touch the stubble - plains with rosy hue ; Then in a wailful choir ...
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... hour comes for the great wing - beat . Sky - strider , Star - strider they rise , and the imperial utterance , Which cries out for distance , quivers in the wheeling sky . That much they know , and in their nature know The path of ...
... hour comes for the great wing - beat . Sky - strider , Star - strider they rise , and the imperial utterance , Which cries out for distance , quivers in the wheeling sky . That much they know , and in their nature know The path of ...
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.