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 v
... winter's traces 12 Gerard Manley Hopkins : Spring 14 Robert Frost : Spring Pools 15 Edna St. Vincent Millay : Spring 15 E. E. Cummings : O sweet spontaneous Lizette Woodworth Reese : The White Fury of the Spring SUMMER Anonymous ...
... winter's traces 12 Gerard Manley Hopkins : Spring 14 Robert Frost : Spring Pools 15 Edna St. Vincent Millay : Spring 15 E. E. Cummings : O sweet spontaneous Lizette Woodworth Reese : The White Fury of the Spring SUMMER Anonymous ...
Side vi
... winter wind Thomas Campion : Now winter nights enlarge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Snow - Flakes Ralph Waldo Emerson : The Snow - Storm 33 34 Emily Brontë : The night is darkening round me 35 w w w w wwww N N 33 31 32 29 30 31 29 Emily ...
... winter wind Thomas Campion : Now winter nights enlarge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Snow - Flakes Ralph Waldo Emerson : The Snow - Storm 33 34 Emily Brontë : The night is darkening round me 35 w w w w wwww N N 33 31 32 29 30 31 29 Emily ...
Side vii
... Winter Sundays Margaret Walker : Lineage Langston Hughes : Mother to Son E. E. Cummings : my father moved through dooms of love Denise Levertov : The 90th Year May Sarton : For My Mother Louise Glück : Portrait Seamus Heaney : Follower ...
... Winter Sundays Margaret Walker : Lineage Langston Hughes : Mother to Son E. E. Cummings : my father moved through dooms of love Denise Levertov : The 90th Year May Sarton : For My Mother Louise Glück : Portrait Seamus Heaney : Follower ...
Side xii
... Winter Night 204 William Carlos Williams : The Descent 205 Wallace Stevens : The Plain Sense of Things 207 Charles Reznikoff : Hail and Farewell 207 Dylan Thomas : Do not go gentle into that good night 208 Carl Rakosi : The Street 209 ...
... Winter Night 204 William Carlos Williams : The Descent 205 Wallace Stevens : The Plain Sense of Things 207 Charles Reznikoff : Hail and Farewell 207 Dylan Thomas : Do not go gentle into that good night 208 Carl Rakosi : The Street 209 ...
Side xviii
... winter hath my absence been Michael Drayton : Since there's no help , come let us 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 ...
... winter hath my absence been Michael Drayton : Since there's no help , come let us 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 ...
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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.