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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... Night Wallace Stevens : The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm John Ashbery : Summer AUTUMN William Blake : To Autumn John Keats : To Autumn Thomas Hood : No ! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : The Harvest Moon Jones Very : The Latter ...
... Night Wallace Stevens : The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm John Ashbery : Summer AUTUMN William Blake : To Autumn John Keats : To Autumn Thomas Hood : No ! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : The Harvest Moon Jones Very : The Latter ...
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... Night 204 William Carlos Williams : The Descent 205 Wallace Stevens : The Plain Sense of Things 207 Charles Reznikoff : Hail and Farewell 207 Dylan Thomas : Do not go gentle into that good night 208 Carl Rakosi : The Street 209 Jonathan ...
... Night 204 William Carlos Williams : The Descent 205 Wallace Stevens : The Plain Sense of Things 207 Charles Reznikoff : Hail and Farewell 207 Dylan Thomas : Do not go gentle into that good night 208 Carl Rakosi : The Street 209 Jonathan ...
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... night we slowly 285 Ono no Komachi ( trans . Donald Keene ) : This night of no moon Charles of Orleans : My ghostly father , I me confess 286 286 Anonymous : I must go walk the wood so wild 287 Louise Labé ( trans . Robert Bridges ) ...
... night we slowly 285 Ono no Komachi ( trans . Donald Keene ) : This night of no moon Charles of Orleans : My ghostly father , I me confess 286 286 Anonymous : I must go walk the wood so wild 287 Louise Labé ( trans . Robert Bridges ) ...
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... Nights ! 317 Robert Bridges : My delight and thy delight 317 Arthur Symons : White Heliotrope 318 Ernest Dowson : Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae Rainer Maria Rilke ( trans ... Night , Riverside Yosano Akiko xvi CONTENTS.
... Nights ! 317 Robert Bridges : My delight and thy delight 317 Arthur Symons : White Heliotrope 318 Ernest Dowson : Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae Rainer Maria Rilke ( trans ... Night , Riverside Yosano Akiko xvi CONTENTS.
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... Night 342 343 344 344 345 345 347 348 349 349 350 351 352 Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Dawn on the Night - Journey Christina Rossetti : Remember George Meredith : Thus piteously love closed what he begat Arthur Rimbaud ( trans . Louise ...
... Night 342 343 344 344 345 345 347 348 349 349 350 351 352 Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Dawn on the Night - Journey Christina Rossetti : Remember George Meredith : Thus piteously love closed what he begat Arthur Rimbaud ( trans . Louise ...
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.