Bartlett's Poems for OccasionsLittle, Brown, 3 вер. 2007 р. - 544 стор. 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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... America the Beautiful Walt Whitman : I Hear America Singing Langston Hughes : I , Too , Sing America HALLOWEEN : PHANTASMS AND HAUNTINGS William Shakespeare : Witches ' Song ( I ) ( From Macbeth ) Ben Jonson : Witches ' Song ( II ) ...
... America the Beautiful Walt Whitman : I Hear America Singing Langston Hughes : I , Too , Sing America HALLOWEEN : PHANTASMS AND HAUNTINGS William Shakespeare : Witches ' Song ( I ) ( From Macbeth ) Ben Jonson : Witches ' Song ( II ) ...
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... AMERICAN STORY 437 George Berkeley : On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America 437 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Paul Revere's Ride 438 Ralph Waldo Emerson : Concord Hymn 442 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Old Ironsides 443 James ...
... AMERICAN STORY 437 George Berkeley : On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America 437 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Paul Revere's Ride 438 Ralph Waldo Emerson : Concord Hymn 442 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Old Ironsides 443 James ...
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... American laureate was under no such obligation . In short , the British laureate was required to write occasional poems , whereas the American laureate only had to write poems occasionally . The occasional poem , that is , a poem ...
... American laureate was under no such obligation . In short , the British laureate was required to write occasional poems , whereas the American laureate only had to write poems occasionally . The occasional poem , that is , a poem ...
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... American fireside poets of the nineteenth century such as Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow and William Cullen Bryant ... America , since the mid- twentieth century - has the assumption taken hold that poetry is something to be relegated to ...
... American fireside poets of the nineteenth century such as Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow and William Cullen Bryant ... America , since the mid- twentieth century - has the assumption taken hold that poetry is something to be relegated to ...
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... AMERICAN ( 1874-1963 ) Spring To what purpose , April , do you return again ? Beauty is not enough . You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily . I know what I know . The sun is hot on my neck as I ...
... AMERICAN ( 1874-1963 ) Spring To what purpose , April , do you return again ? Beauty is not enough . You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily . I know what I know . The sun is hot on my neck as I ...
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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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Сторінка 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.