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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... 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 inspired eulogy ? Organized into five parts - the Cycles of Nature , the Round of the Year , the ...
... 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 inspired eulogy ? Organized into five parts - the Cycles of Nature , the Round of the Year , the ...
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... bring with a noise 72 72 72 73 75 77 78 78 79 79 80 81 83 Clement C. Moore : A Visit from St. Nicholas Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Christmas Bells William Makepeace Thackeray : The Mahogany Tree Thomas Hardy : The Oxen THE CYCLES OF ...
... bring with a noise 72 72 72 73 75 77 78 78 79 79 80 81 83 Clement C. Moore : A Visit from St. Nicholas Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Christmas Bells William Makepeace Thackeray : The Mahogany Tree Thomas Hardy : The Oxen THE CYCLES OF ...
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... brings no joy ... 237 Edgar Allan Poe : Annabel Lee 238 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Break , break , break 239 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Dark house , by which once more I stand 240 Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Grief 240 Robert Browning : May ...
... brings no joy ... 237 Edgar Allan Poe : Annabel Lee 238 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Break , break , break 239 Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Dark house , by which once more I stand 240 Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Grief 240 Robert Browning : May ...
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... BRINGING TOGETHER THE VISITING UNITED STATES POET LAUREATE ME AND THE CURRENT BRITISH poet laureate , Andrew Motion ... bring a bit of historical weight to the table . Though separated by a common lan- guage , we managed to talk easily ...
... BRINGING TOGETHER THE VISITING UNITED STATES POET LAUREATE ME AND THE CURRENT BRITISH poet laureate , Andrew Motion ... bring a bit of historical weight to the table . Though separated by a common lan- guage , we managed to talk easily ...
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... bring the balm of structure to the grief- stricken and provide the joyous with a pattern of choric dance . I might add that a truly fitting wedding poem is not an easy thing to find , even in a recently published anthology devoted to ...
... bring the balm of structure to the grief- stricken and provide the joyous with a pattern of choric dance . I might add that a truly fitting wedding poem is not an easy thing to find , even in a recently published anthology devoted to ...
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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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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.