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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... Growing an Orchid Anonymous ( trans . Arthur Waley ) : For sport and play Sir Thomas More : I am called Childhood , in play is all my mind 87 89 89 89 91 92 92 92 93 2 2 2 2 2 2 93 94 96 96 97 97 98 99 100 100 100 101 CONTENTS Thomas ...
... Growing an Orchid Anonymous ( trans . Arthur Waley ) : For sport and play Sir Thomas More : I am called Childhood , in play is all my mind 87 89 89 89 91 92 92 92 93 2 2 2 2 2 2 93 94 96 96 97 97 98 99 100 100 100 101 CONTENTS Thomas ...
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... Growing Old Walter Savage Landor : Age Thomas Hardy : I look into my glass Edwin Arlington Robinson : Mr. Flood's Party 198 199 200 200 William Butler Yeats : The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner William Butler Yeats : When You Are Old ...
... Growing Old Walter Savage Landor : Age Thomas Hardy : I look into my glass Edwin Arlington Robinson : Mr. Flood's Party 198 199 200 200 William Butler Yeats : The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner William Butler Yeats : When You Are Old ...
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... grow old apace , and die Before we know our liberty . Our life is short , and our days run As fast away as does the sun . And as a vapour or a drop of rain , Once lost , can ne'er be found again : So when or you or I are made A fable ...
... grow old apace , and die Before we know our liberty . Our life is short , and our days run As fast away as does the sun . And as a vapour or a drop of rain , Once lost , can ne'er be found again : So when or you or I are made A fable ...
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... grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn ; Hedge - crickets sing ; and now with treble soft The red - breast whistles from a garden - croft , And gathering swallows twitter in the skies . JOHN KEATS ENGLISH ( 1795-1821 ) No ! No sun - no ...
... grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn ; Hedge - crickets sing ; and now with treble soft The red - breast whistles from a garden - croft , And gathering swallows twitter in the skies . JOHN KEATS ENGLISH ( 1795-1821 ) No ! No sun - no ...
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... grows green as in the spring , No swelling twig puts forth its thickening leaves ; The robins only mid the harvests sing Pecking the grain that scatters from the sheaves ; The rain falls still the fruit all ripened drops , It pierces ...
... grows green as in the spring , No swelling twig puts forth its thickening leaves ; The robins only mid the harvests sing Pecking the grain that scatters from the sheaves ; The rain falls still the fruit all ripened drops , It pierces ...
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.