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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... kiss your eyes Thomas Traherne : The Salutation Ambrose Philips : To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her Mother's Arms William Blake : The Angel that presided o'er my birth William Blake : Infant Joy William Blake : Infant Sorrow William ...
... kiss your eyes Thomas Traherne : The Salutation Ambrose Philips : To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her Mother's Arms William Blake : The Angel that presided o'er my birth William Blake : Infant Joy William Blake : Infant Sorrow William ...
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... 168 Friedrich Hölderlin : Half of Life 168 Charles Lamb : The Old Familiar Faces 169 Leigh Hunt : Jenny kissed me when we met 170 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Mezzo Cammin 170 CONTENTS | xi Henry David Thoreau : I am a x | CONTENTS.
... 168 Friedrich Hölderlin : Half of Life 168 Charles Lamb : The Old Familiar Faces 169 Leigh Hunt : Jenny kissed me when we met 170 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Mezzo Cammin 170 CONTENTS | xi Henry David Thoreau : I am a x | CONTENTS.
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... kissed , and where , and why 175 Wallace Stevens : A Postcard from the Volcano 175 Langston Hughes : Still Here 177 Stephen Spender : What I expected was 177 Andrew Marvell : The Garden Stevie Smith : Not Waving but Drowning Elizabeth ...
... kissed , and where , and why 175 Wallace Stevens : A Postcard from the Volcano 175 Langston Hughes : Still Here 177 Stephen Spender : What I expected was 177 Andrew Marvell : The Garden Stevie Smith : Not Waving but Drowning Elizabeth ...
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... kiss and part John Donne : Sweetest love , I do not go John Donne : A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning John Dryden : Why should a foolish marriage vow Richard Lovelace : To Lucasta , Going Beyond the Seas Robert Burns : Farewell to ...
... kiss and part John Donne : Sweetest love , I do not go John Donne : A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning John Dryden : Why should a foolish marriage vow Richard Lovelace : To Lucasta , Going Beyond the Seas Robert Burns : Farewell to ...
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... kiss and part " — almost the archetype of breakup poems - does end , after all , on a note of lingering hope for reconciliation . It may take an imaginative leap to recognize a treasured friend in a poem about a veteran of the Roman ...
... kiss and part " — almost the archetype of breakup poems - does end , after all , on a note of lingering hope for reconciliation . It may take an imaginative leap to recognize a treasured friend in a poem about a veteran of the Roman ...
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.