Bartlett's Poems for OccasionsBartlett'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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... Mother on Mother's Day ? What poems will 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 ...
... Mother on Mother's Day ? What poems will 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 ...
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... Mother Robert Louis Stevenson : To My Mother Charles Reznikoff : My grandfather , dead long before I was born Robert Hayden : Those Winter Sundays Margaret Walker : Lineage Langston Hughes : Mother to Son E. E. Cummings : my father ...
... Mother Robert Louis Stevenson : To My Mother Charles Reznikoff : My grandfather , dead long before I was born Robert Hayden : Those Winter Sundays Margaret Walker : Lineage Langston Hughes : Mother to Son E. E. Cummings : my father ...
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... Mother's Arms William Blake : The Angel that presided o'er my birth William Blake : Infant Joy William Blake : Infant Sorrow William Blake : Nurse's Song Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Sweet and low , sweet and low Eugene Field : Dutch ...
... Mother's Arms William Blake : The Angel that presided o'er my birth William Blake : Infant Joy William Blake : Infant Sorrow William Blake : Nurse's Song Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Sweet and low , sweet and low Eugene Field : Dutch ...
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... Mother , which came on the heels of Motion's appointment , to perhaps the marriage of a disreputable viscount . The American laureate was under no such obligation . In short , the British laureate was required to write occasional poems ...
... Mother , which came on the heels of Motion's appointment , to perhaps the marriage of a disreputable viscount . The American laureate was under no such obligation . In short , the British laureate was required to write occasional poems ...
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... Mother's and Father's Days , the Fourth of July , and Thanksgiving . The third part , " The Cycles of Life , " includes poems trac- ing our earliest explorations of infancy , the pleasures and anxieties of youth , the challenge of ...
... Mother's and Father's Days , the Fourth of July , and Thanksgiving . The third part , " The Cycles of Life , " includes poems trac- ing our earliest explorations of infancy , the pleasures and anxieties of youth , the challenge of ...
Contents
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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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Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
Page 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.