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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... Nature , the Round of the Year , the Cycles of Life , the Human Condition , and Public Moments and Ultimate Matters - Bartlett's Poems for Occasions pro- vides the perfect vehicle to translate the wisdom and expression of the greatest ...
... Nature , the Round of the Year , the Cycles of Life , the Human Condition , and Public Moments and Ultimate Matters - Bartlett's Poems for Occasions pro- vides the perfect vehicle to translate the wisdom and expression of the greatest ...
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... NATURE SPRING Anonymous ( trans . F. L. Lucas ) : Loveless hearts shall love tomorrow , hearts that have loved shall love anew Thomas Nashe : Spring , the sweet spring , is the year's pleasant king William Shakespeare : When daisies ...
... NATURE SPRING Anonymous ( trans . F. L. Lucas ) : Loveless hearts shall love tomorrow , hearts that have loved shall love anew Thomas Nashe : Spring , the sweet spring , is the year's pleasant king William Shakespeare : When daisies ...
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... : Young men dancing , and the old Edmund Waller : On the Last Verses in the Book John Milton : On His Blindness 189 190 191 191 191 192 192 193 193 193 194 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson : Terminus.
... : Young men dancing , and the old Edmund Waller : On the Last Verses in the Book John Milton : On His Blindness 189 190 191 191 191 192 192 193 193 193 194 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson : Terminus.
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Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson : Terminus Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Tithonus 194 195 196 Matthew Arnold : Growing Old Walter Savage Landor : Age Thomas Hardy : I look into my glass ...
Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson : Terminus Alfred , Lord Tennyson : Tithonus 194 195 196 Matthew Arnold : Growing Old Walter Savage Landor : Age Thomas Hardy : I look into my glass ...
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... natural cycle of the seasons are followed by ones marking the social calendar we fit over the seasonal one featuring such mythic and historic dates as Halloween , Independence Day , and the birth of Christ . Then we are carried , poem ...
... natural cycle of the seasons are followed by ones marking the social calendar we fit over the seasonal one featuring such mythic and historic dates as Halloween , Independence Day , and the birth of Christ . Then we are carried , poem ...
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.