Bartlett's Poems for OccasionsLittle, Brown, 3. sep. 2007 - 544 sider 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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Side ix
... INTO ADULTHOOD William Shakespeare : All the world's a stage Sir Henry Wotton : How happy is he born or taught William Wordsworth : My heart leaps up when I behold 135 136 136 137 138 Leigh Hunt : Abou Ben Adhem George Eliot : The.
... INTO ADULTHOOD William Shakespeare : All the world's a stage Sir Henry Wotton : How happy is he born or taught William Wordsworth : My heart leaps up when I behold 135 136 136 137 138 Leigh Hunt : Abou Ben Adhem George Eliot : The.
Side x
... heart , and I have his Robert Greene : The Shepherd's Wife's Song 146 147 Edmund Spenser : Prothalamion 148 Michael Drayton : Verses Made the Night before He Died William Shakespeare : Let me not to the marriage of true minds 153 154 ...
... heart , and I have his Robert Greene : The Shepherd's Wife's Song 146 147 Edmund Spenser : Prothalamion 148 Michael Drayton : Verses Made the Night before He Died William Shakespeare : Let me not to the marriage of true minds 153 154 ...
Side xi
... heart an air that kills William Carlos Williams : Thursday 174 174 175 Edna St. Vincent Millay : What lips my lips have kissed , and where , and why 175 Wallace Stevens : A Postcard from the Volcano 175 Langston Hughes : Still Here 177 ...
... heart an air that kills William Carlos Williams : Thursday 174 174 175 Edna St. Vincent Millay : What lips my lips have kissed , and where , and why 175 Wallace Stevens : A Postcard from the Volcano 175 Langston Hughes : Still Here 177 ...
Side 5
Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. SPRING Loveless hearts shall love tomorrow , hearts that have loved shall love anew From The Vigil of Venus ( Pervigilium Veneris ) Loveless hearts shall love tomorrow , hearts that have loved shall love ...
Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. SPRING Loveless hearts shall love tomorrow , hearts that have loved shall love anew From The Vigil of Venus ( Pervigilium Veneris ) Loveless hearts shall love tomorrow , hearts that have loved shall love ...
Side 10
... heart congeal'd , and makes her pity cold . The ox , which lately did for shelter fly Into the stall , doth now securely lie In open fields ; and love no more is made By the fireside , but in the cooler shade Amyntas now doth with his ...
... heart congeal'd , and makes her pity cold . The ox , which lately did for shelter fly Into the stall , doth now securely lie In open fields ; and love no more is made By the fireside , but in the cooler shade Amyntas now doth with his ...
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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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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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Side 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.