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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Pagina ix
... Rose my eyes are blue Dylan Thomas : Fern Hill 116 117 118 YOUTH AND ITS PLEASURES Phyllis McGinley : Portrait of Girl with Comic Book Elizabeth Bishop : In the Waiting Room Robert Wever : In Youth Is Pleasure Samuel Daniel : Are they ...
... Rose my eyes are blue Dylan Thomas : Fern Hill 116 117 118 YOUTH AND ITS PLEASURES Phyllis McGinley : Portrait of Girl with Comic Book Elizabeth Bishop : In the Waiting Room Robert Wever : In Youth Is Pleasure Samuel Daniel : Are they ...
Pagina xvi
... Rose Robert Burns : Lang Hae We Parted Been 307 308 308 William Wordsworth : She was a Phantom of delight George Gordon , Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley : To 309 310 311 John Keats : Bright star , would I were ...
... Rose Robert Burns : Lang Hae We Parted Been 307 308 308 William Wordsworth : She was a Phantom of delight George Gordon , Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley : To 309 310 311 John Keats : Bright star , would I were ...
Pagina xxii
... Rose William Blake : The Fly 474 474 Thomas Hood : Silence Christopher Cranch : Enosis Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Flower in the crannied wall Walt Whitman : When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Emily Dickinson : Four Trees - opon a ...
... Rose William Blake : The Fly 474 474 Thomas Hood : Silence Christopher Cranch : Enosis Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Flower in the crannied wall Walt Whitman : When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Emily Dickinson : Four Trees - opon a ...
Pagina 25
... rose , girded himself , and o'er the bleak Hills fled from our sight ; but left his golden load . WILLIAM BLAKE ENGLISH ( 1757-1827 ) To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! Close bosom - friend of the maturing sun ...
... rose , girded himself , and o'er the bleak Hills fled from our sight ; but left his golden load . WILLIAM BLAKE ENGLISH ( 1757-1827 ) To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! Close bosom - friend of the maturing sun ...
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Inhoudsopgave
3 | |
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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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
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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.