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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... Human Condition , and Public Moments and Ultimate Matters - Bartlett's Poems for Occasions pro- vides the perfect vehicle to translate the wisdom and expression of the greatest works of poetry into our everyday experience . Among the ...
... Human Condition , and Public Moments and Ultimate Matters - Bartlett's Poems for Occasions pro- vides the perfect vehicle to translate the wisdom and expression of the greatest works of poetry into our everyday experience . Among the ...
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... HUMAN CONDITION 251 FRIENDSHIP 253 Horace ( trans . David Ferry ) : To an Old Comrade in the Army of Brutus 253 Ben Jonson : Inviting a Friend to Supper 253 William Wordsworth : Travelling 255 Samuel Taylor Coleridge : This Lime - Tree ...
... HUMAN CONDITION 251 FRIENDSHIP 253 Horace ( trans . David Ferry ) : To an Old Comrade in the Army of Brutus 253 Ben Jonson : Inviting a Friend to Supper 253 William Wordsworth : Travelling 255 Samuel Taylor Coleridge : This Lime - Tree ...
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... human life . The immensity of the range of occasions is apparent from just a glimpse at the table of contents , which shows that poetry has a way of getting into every corner of expe- rience . The book uses as its organizational ...
... human life . The immensity of the range of occasions is apparent from just a glimpse at the table of contents , which shows that poetry has a way of getting into every corner of expe- rience . The book uses as its organizational ...
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... human emotion that we have , and its formal arrange- ments - particularly its patterns of rhyme and meter - have the power to embody and ritualize feeling . The right poem can bring the balm of structure to the grief- stricken and ...
... human emotion that we have , and its formal arrange- ments - particularly its patterns of rhyme and meter - have the power to embody and ritualize feeling . The right poem can bring the balm of structure to the grief- stricken and ...
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... HUMAN LIFE . I HAVE DIVIDED THE POEMS INTO FIVE PARTS . THE FIRST PART , " The Cycles of Nature , " has a selection of poems arranged by season . The poems in the second part , " The Round of the Year , " are ones that celebrate the ...
... HUMAN LIFE . I HAVE DIVIDED THE POEMS INTO FIVE PARTS . THE FIRST PART , " The Cycles of Nature , " has a selection of poems arranged by season . The poems in the second part , " The Round of the Year , " are ones that celebrate the ...
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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
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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.