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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... death and everything in between . Just as Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the volume everyone reaches for when seeking a pithy citation to spice up an all - important speech or paper , Bartlett's Poems for Occasions is the ultimate ...
... death and everything in between . Just as Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the volume everyone reaches for when seeking a pithy citation to spice up an all - important speech or paper , Bartlett's Poems for Occasions is the ultimate ...
Pagina xi
... death I cry William Drummond : The World a - hunting is Thomas Stanley : Young men dancing , and the old Edmund Waller : On the Last Verses in the Book John Milton : On His Blindness 189 190 191 191 191 192 192 193 193 193 194 Henry ...
... death I cry William Drummond : The World a - hunting is Thomas Stanley : Young men dancing , and the old Edmund Waller : On the Last Verses in the Book John Milton : On His Blindness 189 190 191 191 191 192 192 193 193 193 194 Henry ...
Pagina xii
... DEATH AND MORTALITY Lucretius ( trans . John Dryden ) : What has this bugbear death to frighten man Hadrian ( trans . George Gordon , Lord Byron ) : Hadrian's Address to His Soul When Dying Izumi Shikibu ( trans . Arthur Waley ) : Out ...
... DEATH AND MORTALITY Lucretius ( trans . John Dryden ) : What has this bugbear death to frighten man Hadrian ( trans . George Gordon , Lord Byron ) : Hadrian's Address to His Soul When Dying Izumi Shikibu ( trans . Arthur Waley ) : Out ...
Pagina xiii
... death 222 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Crossing the Bar 223 Walter Savage Landor : I strove with none , for none was worth my strife 224 Walter Savage Landor : Death stands above me 224 Robert Louis Stevenson : Requiem 224 Adelaide Crapsey ...
... death 222 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Crossing the Bar 223 Walter Savage Landor : I strove with none , for none was worth my strife 224 Walter Savage Landor : Death stands above me 224 Robert Louis Stevenson : Requiem 224 Adelaide Crapsey ...
Pagina xv
... Death of Mr Robert Levet Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Work without Hope 272 272 272 273 274 John Keats : When I have fears that I may cease to be 275 Henry David Thoreau : My life has been the poem I would have writ 275 Henry Wadsworth ...
... Death of Mr Robert Levet Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Work without Hope 272 272 272 273 274 John Keats : When I have fears that I may cease to be 275 Henry David Thoreau : My life has been the poem I would have writ 275 Henry Wadsworth ...
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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.