Bartlett's Poems for OccasionsLittle, Brown, 03.09.2007 - 544 Seiten 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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... Live blindly and upon the hour 132 A. E. Housman : The fairies break their dances 133 A. E. Housman : Loveliest of trees , the cherry now 133 Ernest Dowson : Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Edna St. Vincent Millay ...
... Live blindly and upon the hour 132 A. E. Housman : The fairies break their dances 133 A. E. Housman : Loveliest of trees , the cherry now 133 Ernest Dowson : Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Edna St. Vincent Millay ...
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... live and love 295 Ben Jonson : To Celia 296 John Donne : The Good - Morrow 296 John Donne : The Sun Rising 297 John Donne : To His Mistress Going to Bed 298 John Donne : The Ecstasy 299 Thomas Carew : Song 302 Robert Herrick : Clothes ...
... live and love 295 Ben Jonson : To Celia 296 John Donne : The Good - Morrow 296 John Donne : The Sun Rising 297 John Donne : To His Mistress Going to Bed 298 John Donne : The Ecstasy 299 Thomas Carew : Song 302 Robert Herrick : Clothes ...
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... 'm happiest when most away 368 Walt Whitman : I Saw in Louisiana a Live - Oak Growing 369 369 Emily Dickinson : The Soul selects her own Society 370 CONTENTS Frederick Goddard Tuckerman : Dank fens of cedar , xviii | CONTENTS.
... 'm happiest when most away 368 Walt Whitman : I Saw in Louisiana a Live - Oak Growing 369 369 Emily Dickinson : The Soul selects her own Society 370 CONTENTS Frederick Goddard Tuckerman : Dank fens of cedar , xviii | CONTENTS.
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... lives : the torments and fulfillments of love ; friendship and contentment ; the working life ; farewells ; sufferings shared or undergone in solitude ; and endurance . Finally , the last part , " Public Moments and Ultimate Matters ...
... lives : the torments and fulfillments of love ; friendship and contentment ; the working life ; farewells ; sufferings shared or undergone in solitude ; and endurance . Finally , the last part , " Public Moments and Ultimate Matters ...
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... live in . In the reign of James I , Ben Jonson invited a friend to supper while assuring him that there would be no government spies among the guests to eavesdrop on their conversation . During the draft riots of 1863 Herman Melville ...
... live in . In the reign of James I , Ben Jonson invited a friend to supper while assuring him that there would be no government spies among the guests to eavesdrop on their conversation . During the draft riots of 1863 Herman Melville ...
Inhalt
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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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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Seite 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.