Bartlett's Poems for OccasionsLittle, Brown, 3 sep 2007 - 544 pagina's 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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... ring in the New Year , salute the Fourth of July , or honor Mother on Mother's Day ? What poems will bring comfort when a country has gone to war ? What poems will be appropriate to console a mourning and bereft family and serve as an ...
... ring in the New Year , salute the Fourth of July , or honor Mother on Mother's Day ? What poems will bring comfort when a country has gone to war ? What poems will be appropriate to console a mourning and bereft family and serve as an ...
Pagina vii
... Ring out , wild bells , to the wild sky William Cullen Bryant : A Song for New Year's Eve VALENTINE'S DAY Coventry Patmore : Saint Valentine's Day Wilfred Scawen Blunt : St. Valentine's Day Gertrude Stein : A Very Valentine Louis ...
... Ring out , wild bells , to the wild sky William Cullen Bryant : A Song for New Year's Eve VALENTINE'S DAY Coventry Patmore : Saint Valentine's Day Wilfred Scawen Blunt : St. Valentine's Day Gertrude Stein : A Very Valentine Louis ...
Pagina 5
... ring , Cold doth not sting , the pretty birds do sing : Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The palm and may make country houses gay , Lambs frisk and play , the shepherds pipe all day , SPRING | 5 OF NATURE 61 Cuckoo ...
... ring , Cold doth not sting , the pretty birds do sing : Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The palm and may make country houses gay , Lambs frisk and play , the shepherds pipe all day , SPRING | 5 OF NATURE 61 Cuckoo ...
Pagina 25
... ring Summer breaks forth into singing , And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head . " The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit ; and joy , with pinions light , roves round The gardens , or sits singing in the trees ...
... ring Summer breaks forth into singing , And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head . " The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit ; and joy , with pinions light , roves round The gardens , or sits singing in the trees ...
Pagina 27
... Ring- no afternoon gentility- No company- no nobility . - No warmth , no cheerfulness , no healthful ease , No comfortable feel in any member- No shade , no shine , no butterflies , no bees , No fruits , no flowers , no leaves , no ...
... Ring- no afternoon gentility- No company- no nobility . - No warmth , no cheerfulness , no healthful ease , No comfortable feel in any member- No shade , no shine , no butterflies , no bees , No fruits , no flowers , no leaves , no ...
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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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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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
Populaire passages
Pagina 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.