Frederick - This Little World

Epitaph, H.S.R. Killed April 1917 / Richard Aldington -- Praise to our faring hearts / Dylan Thomas -- from Ulysses / Alfred Tennyson -- from Prudentius / Helen Waddell -- from Into the Sunset / S. Hall Young -- Farewell Sweet Dust / Elinor Wylie -- from Return into the Night -- Holy Light / John Hall Wheelock -- from After-Thought / William Wordsworth -- After the Dazzle of Day / Walt Whitman -- Telos -- from So Dark, So True / John Hall Wheelock -- The seed that is to grow / Wu Ming Fu -- Now Final to the Shore -- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! / Walt Whitman -- from Now Against Winter / Frederic Vanson -- What Are We Bound For? / Louis Untermeyer -- from Sadhana / Rabindranath Tagore -- Letter, March 11, 1842 / Henry David Thoreau -- from Meditations of the Heart / Howard Thurman -- fromGitanjali No. 90 / Rabindranath Tagore -- It is not that we are singled out for a special judgement / W. M. Salter -- from On Death / Seneca -- from Wind, Sand, and Stars / Antoine De Saint-Exupry -- Now Voyager / May Sarton -- To W. P. I / George Santayana -- from Ave Atque Vale / Algernon Swinburne -- Stars, Songs, Faces / Carl Sandburg -- F. O. M. / Muriel Rukeyser -- from New Hopes for a Changing World / Bertrand Russell -- from A Selection by Jalal-Uddin Rumi / Jalal-Uddin Rumi -- Towards Simplicity / A. K. Ramanujan -- When / George Russell -- from A Free Mans Worship / Bertrand Russell -- from Duino Elegies / Rainer Maria Rilke -- We come here bearing our grief / Peter Raible -- from Litany for All Souls / Lucien Price -- Country Burial / Harriet Plimpton -- Psalms / Anonymous (Sabbath Prayer Book) -- An Adaptation of Psalm 90 / Emil Weitzner -- from The World, My Home / Kenneth L. Patton -- from The Seed and the Sower / Laurens Van Der Post -- The dead are not dead if we have loved them truly. / Felix Adler -- To our friends and loved ones / W. K. Clifford -- Leaves should not fall in early summer. / Angus H. Maclean -- To a Young Poet / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- At My Fathers Grave / Hugh MacDiarmid -- from A Selection by C. Day Lewis / C. Day Lewis -- Meditation / Corliss Lamont -- from The East Window / Bert Leston Taylor -- from Man Against Death / Corliss Lamont;-- from Ode on Intimations of Immortality / William Wordsworth -- End / Mark Van Doren -- Irony / Louis Untermeyer -- from Gerusalemme Liberata / Torquato Tasso -- from the Sanskrit / translated by Daniel Ingalls -- from Wind, Sand, and Stars / Antoine De Saint-Exupry -- Autumn Movement / Carl Sandburg -- To the Family of a Friend on His Death / Robert Pack -- Words To Be Spoken / Archibald MacLeish -- Dirge Without Music / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- from Elegy for an Engineer / Dilys Laing -- Because I came, blossoms opened / Paul Klee -- from The Noble Flower / Robinson Jeffers -- from The Humanists / Elizabeth Jennings -- The Woman I Loved / Scharmel Iris -- from Fruits of the Earth / Andr Gide -- Journal, January 30, 1842 / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Great Occasions / Hilda Doolittle -- from Perpetual Light / William Rose Bent -- Epilog / Gottfried Benn -- A song alone / Ampu -- The goal of all life is death / Sigmund Freud -- from Two Songs from a Play / William Butler Yeats -- Our Mothers Depart / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal -- from To H. C. / William Wordsworth -- from Night Thoughts in an Age / John Hall Wheelock -- from A Selection by Jiri Wolker / Jiri Wolker -- A Dirge / John Webster -- from I Wonder How You Take Your Rest / Louis Untermeyer -- from Green Memories / Geddes Mumford;Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas -- from The Garden of Proserpine / Algernon Swinburne -- from King Richard II / William Shakespeare -- from The Misery of Don Joost / Wallace Stevens -- Of Philip Murray / Adlai Stevenson -- All things are gluttonously devoured by Time / Seneca -- Of Eleanor Roosevelt / Adlai Stevenson -- from Afterwards / Duncan Campbell Scott -- from The Dying Man / Theodore Roethke -- from Duties of the Heart / Bahya Ibn Pakuda -- Pygmy Funeral Hymn / Anonymous -- from Earth Memories / Llewelyn Powys -- from Old Woman in the Sun / Sheila Pritchard -- Transition / Christopher Okigbo -- Mans life is like a sojourning / Mei Sheng -- The Journal / Katherine Mansfield -- from Journal / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- from A Selection by Li Po / Li Po -- Our Day Is Over / D. H. Lawrence -- There is no conclusion / William James -- Parta Quies -- from The Isle of Portland / A. E. Housman -- Death This Year -- from Grass / John Holmes -- from Last Letter / Hans Egon Holthusen -- from The Iliad / Homer -- from Fruits of the Earth / Andr Gide -- Man cometh forth like a flower from concealment / Gregory the Great -- from Fruits of the Earth / Andr Gide -- Death asks us for our identity / Robert Fulton -- Acceptance / Robert Frost -- Death is before me today / Anonymous (Egyptian) -- from A Selection by Frank Carleton Doan / Frank Carleton Doan -- All, all of a piece throughout / John Dryden -- from Christian Morals / Thomas Browne -- The day we die / Anonymous (African Bushman) -- A Word / Gottfried Benn -- from The Way of Salvation / St. Alphonsus de Liguori -- Every summary has a trend / Abu Al-Atahiyah;The power of youth is a darkness / Anonymous (Sanskrit) -- Believe nothing merely because you have been told it / Buddha -- from Words of Aspiration / Arthur Wakefield Slaten -- from Walden / Henry Thoreau -- from the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- from Childhood and Society / Erik H. Erikson -- Advice to Pilgrims / Robinson Jeffers -- To Whom It May Concern: Greeting / Francis C. Cook -- from The Democratic Man / Eduard C. Lindemann -- Now there is time and Time is young / May Sarton -- Journal, June 15, 1844 / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from To a Young Friend / Robert Nathan -- A tree that it takes both arms to encircle / Lao Tzu -- from What Man May Become / George R. Harrison -- This is an important moment in your lives / Michael G. Young -- from Words of Aspiration / Arthur Wakefield Slaten -- from A selection by Yang Chu / Yang Chu -- And meet the road--erect / Emily Dickinson -- from Essay No. 26 / Michel De Montaigne -- from Orion / Aldous Huxley -- from Insight and Responsibility / Erik H. Erikson -- from Memories of Childhood and Youth / Albert Schweitzer -- As Much as You Can / C. P. Cavafy -- from Words of Aspiration / Arthur Wakefield Slaten -- from A selection by Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from The Third Memory / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- from Do Not Pity the Young / John Holmes -- from A selection by Boris Pasternak / Boris Pasternak -- from The Journals / Andr Gide -- from Requiem for the Living / C. Day Lewis -- from They Who Choose To Die / Raymond Holden -- from Others May Judge You / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- from Address to the Living / John Holmes -- from Earth Memories / Llewelyn Powys -- Journal, November 11, 1842 / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Memories of Childhood and Youth / Albert Schweitzer -- from Earth Memories / Llewelyn Powys --;The hand offered by each of you is an extension of self / Anonymous -- from Memories of Childhood and Youth / Albert Schweitzer -- from To the Unborn Children / Hans Carossa -- from A selection by Paul Eluard / Paul Eluard -- When the giving of Love is entire / Al-Hallaj -- from Lucullus Dines / Stephen Vincent Bent -- No love, to love of man and wife / Richard Edes -- Love Is / May Swenson -- from A selection by Elmo A. Robinson / Elmo A. Robinson -- We are those two natural and nonchalant persons / Walt Whitman -- When all the world is young, lad / Charles Kingsley -- Now in the time of your youth / James Lawson -- We have come together to make a marriage of our love and understanding / Ernest H. Sommerfeld -- from To Mary / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from Imitation of Christ / Thomas a Kempis -- from Adam Bede / George Eliot -- Navajo Indian Chant /Anonymous -- from A selection by A. Powell Davies / A Powell Davies -- nothing false and possible is love / e. e. cummings -- Men marry What They Need / John Ciardi -- Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare -- In the quiet of this very special moment we pause / Robert Botley -- As we stand here at the altar of life / James Zacharias -- Ceremony of the Wine Cup / Kenneth L. Patton -- from The Celestial Love / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Farewell to Folly / Robert Greene -- Love is the great asker / D. H. Lawrence -- from Exhortation Before Marriage / Anonymous (Collectio Rituum) -- Now I wish too that you make in your marriage no fetters / Brandoch Lovely -- We have been called together as witnesses to the happiness / Anonymous -- We have gathered to hear this couple give their vows of marriage / Karl Hultberg -- from A selection by A. Powell Davies and Muriel Davies / A. Powell Davies and Muriel Davies -- from Sound of Silence / Raymond J. Baughan -- true lovers in each happening of their hearts / e. e. cummings -- from Canto Amor / John Berryman -- blank and blank, in presenting yourselves here today / Peter Raible -- The secret of love and marriage is that of religion itself -- To blank and blank who gather to pledge their love and join their lives / Anonymous -- In every passing era, new challenges are revealed / David H. MacPherson -- from Man Is the Meaning / Kenneth L. Patton -- Today we are privileged to share with / Anonymous -- from Give All to Love / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from A selection by Duncan Howlett / Duncan Howlett -- The Master Speed / Robert Frost -- Out of all the hosts of earth -- from A selection by William B. Rice / William B. Rice -- Yesterday I stood at the temple door interrogating the passers-by / Kahlil Gibran -- We have come here to join this man and woman in marriage / Robert Senghas -- Love has the longest history / George Barker -- Come to Birth / Abbie Huston Evans -- from Earth-Treading Stars That Made Dark Heaven Light / Stephen Spender -- These are two individual souls / Kenneth Clark -- from A selection by Rudolph W. Nemser -- May your ring be always the symbol of the unbroken circle of love / Rudolph W. Nemser;Vertue / George Herbert -- from The Fruits of the Earth / Andr Gide -- A Soldier / Robert Frost -- from Threnody -- Character / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The world we know is passing / A. Powell Davies -- Superiority to Fate -- This World is not Conclusion / Emily Dickinson -- life is more true than reason will deceive / e. e. cummings -- from The Prisoner / Emily Bront -- The Adoration / William Rose Bent -- Absence becomes the greatest presence / May Sarton -- from The Death of Europe / Charles Olson -- Death alone can bring us affections true summary / Robert Zoerheide -- Song VII -- Song V / John Hall Wheelock -- from London 1802 / William Wordsworth -- from The Part Called Age -- from In This Green Nook / John Hall Wheelock -- from Specimen Days / Walt Whitman -- from A Selection by George C. Whitney / George C. Whitney -- from A Cup of Strength / Robert Terry Weston -- Although he was too proud to die / Dylan Thomas -- Time flies / Anonymous (from an Old English Sundial) -- from The Sparrow / Ivan Turgenev -- When they told us that you had died quietly in your sleep -- from A Selection by Ernest H. Sommerfeld / Ernest H. Sommerfeld -- Though dwelling here, I still am yours (from the Sanskrit) / tr. Daniel Ingalls -- from Flight to Arras / Antoine de Saint-Exupry -- When a good man dies his friends gather together / William B. Rice -- from For Memory / Muriel Rukeyser -- They say you have left me, but it is not true / Donald F. Robinson -- Beneath the canopy of the infinite heavens / Elmo A. Robinson -- Limitless / Archibald Rutledge -- from Mater Gloriosa / Lucien Price -- from A Selection by Alfred W. Martin / Alfred W. Martin -- from The Pacific Suite #5 / Vincent McHugh -- from A Selection by Giuseppe Mazzini / Giuseppe Mazzini -- We come to this place / David H. MacPherson -- Let us have tenderly in our minds and hearts / Robert Killam -- On His Brother / Robert G. Ingersoll -- On His Friend, Joseph Rodman Drake / Fitz-Greene Halleck -- from A Selection by A. Powell Davies / A. Powell Davies -- from A Passionate Prodigality / Guy Chapman -- from Wherever You Go Now / John Burton -- Time is too slow for those who wait / Anonymous (Inscription on sundial, University of Virginia) -- We must not part, as others do / Anonymous -- Woods where the woodthrush forever sings / Henry David Thoreau -- In this solemn hour consecrated to our beloved dead / Anonymous (Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book) -- Our meeting here today is to celebrate the fullness of life / William B. Rice -- Song XIV / John Hall Wheelock -- We are entered here into a House of Memory / Theodore A. Webb -- from A Selection by George C. Whitney -- This was the citizen articulate / George C. Whitney -- For Lillian French / Ruth A. Woodman -- In Silence / Thomas Wolfe -- from Ode on Intimations of Immortality / William Wordsworth -- The Woman / William Rose Bent -- On Jacob Wirth / Walter Muir Whitehill -- from Dear Men and Women / John Hall Wheelock -- from Elegy / Dylan Thomas -- There Will Be Stars / Sara Teasdale -- Journal, August 6, 1841 / Henry David Thoreau -- To ---- / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from Peter Quince at the Clavier / Wallace Stevens -- Memory / Arthur Symons -- To W.P.II / George Santayana -- So brilliant a moonshine / Ryota -- When I die! / William B. Rice -- For his daughters gravestone / Robert Richardson -- The Measure of Sorrow -- from On Immortality / Kenneth L. Patton -- from Litany For All Souls / Lucien Price -- No person can sum up the life of another / Charles Gaines -- When the Rose Is Faded / Walter De La Mare -- from Sound of Silence / Raymond J. Baughan -- Out if the white immensities always young / James M. Barrie -- Funeral Oration of Pericles / Thucydides -- With the immortality of memory from one who was quiet, gentle, and kind, go gently into the days ahead / Robert Zoerheide -- from Specimen Days / Walt Whitman;Thankfulness should be the tenor of this occasion / Theodore A. Webb -- Spirit of Life, remove from us all fear / George C. Whitney -- from Mater Gloriosa / Lucien Price -- Robert M. La Follette / Lucia Trent -- from The Story of an African Farm / Olive Schreiner -- from Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Requiem -- from Aes Triplex / Robert Louis Stevenson -- from A Selection by Stephen Spender / Stephen Spender -- To the African Dead / Carl Sandburg -- from Colleague / Theodore Spencer -- from Praise to the End / Theodore Roethke -- Exit / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Tomorrow / Kenneth Patchen -- For a Worker -- For a Youth / Kenneth L. Patton -- from Litany for All Souls / Lucien Price -- 1949 / Edward Plunkett -- from E.A., November 6, 1900 / John Oxenham -- Sonnet XI / Michelangelo -- from The Young Dead Soldiers / Archibald MacLeish -- Consolation in Time of War / Lewis Mumford -- from The Essays /Michel de Montaigne -- Power / Edwin Markham -- To the Sister of Elia / Walter Savage Landor -- from Elegy for William Ellery Channing / James Russell Lowell -- from Praised Be Youth / Scharmel Iris -- from Play the Last March Slowly / Richard Davidson -- Journal, June 1861 (On the death of Theodore Parker) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- We learn in the Retreating / Emily Dickinson -- Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. / Anonymous (arranged by Stanton Coit) -- from Childe Harold / George Byron -- from Pilgrims Way / John Buchan -- The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions / Walt Whitman -- We are gathered here in memory of / Robert Zoerheide -- from Song of Myself -- from The Sleepers -- from Song of Myself -- Continuities -- from So Long / Walt Whitman -- from Sonnet to Toussaint LOuverture / William Wordsworth -- Toward Which / Thomas Wolfe -- from De Profundis / Oscar Wilde -- Fruit-Gathering, No. 40 / Rabindranath Tagore -- Journal, February 14, 1851 / Henry David Thoreau -- from Sunday Morning / Wallace Stevens -- from Prometheus Unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley;We meet to celebrate the life of / Ernest H. Sommerfeld -- My Fathers Death / May Sarton -- To enter the great continent of death / Carl Seaburg -- The Poets Testament / George Santayana -- from Destinations / Carl Seaburg -- from What Can I Tell My Bones? / Theodore Roethke -- Notes to Duino Eleggies / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from Wedding / Boris Pasternak -- from Litany for All Souls / Lucien Price -- from The Climate of War / Kenneth Patchen -- from The Exegesis / Elder Olson -- from In Cold Hell, In Thicket / Charles Olson -- from Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The day on which a great man dies is better than the day on which he was born / Midrash -- Today we honor the memory of / Angus H. MacLean -- from The Passing Strange / John Masefield -- from To the Children / Gabriela Mistral -- from The Man of Science Speaks / Harriet Monroe -- from Apollinaire / Walter Lowenfels -- Sonnet X / James Russell Lowell -- When the Ripe Fruit Falls / D. H. Lawrence -- One came and said to the prophet / Anonymous (Islamic) -- When someone whom we love dies / Robert Killam -- from The Unconquerable Life / Walter Royal Jones -- from A Pindaric Ode / Ben Jonson;Inscription for a Gravestone / Robinson Jeffers -- Eternity / Robert Herrick -- What must it be for a man as good as he / Gerald Heard -- A number of deaths, following each other / Marsden Hartley -- from I Speak for Myself / John Haynes Holmes -- But for your Terror / Oliver St. John Gogarty -- from Jesus / Kahlil Gibran -- from Forward into Light / Frederick R. Griffin -- The Hatch / Norma Farber -- Sight / Robert Francis -- from The Poem That Cant Be Stopped / Paul Eluard -- from The Choir Invisible / George Eliot -- from A Selection by Emily Dickinson / Emily Dickinson -- from Dear Gift of Life / Bradford Smith -- Two Lengths has every Day -- The hollowing of Pain -- As if the Sea should part / Emily Dickinson -- from A Selection by Fred Cairns / Fred Cairns -- The Dead, IV / Rupert Brooke -- We belong to the eternal here and now. / Raymond J. Baughan -- Had I a Claim to Fame? / William Rose Bent -- from Cato / Joseph Addison -- That cause can neither be lost nor stayed / Anonymous -- from A Selection by George Santayana / George Santayana -- Appendixes -- Acknowledgments -- Indexes.;PREFACE -- FOR THE OCCASION OF BIRTH -- An eye comes out of the wave / Theodore Roethke -- from Man Is the Meaning / Kenneth L. Patton -- from Credences of Summer / Wallace Stevens -- from Innocence and Experience / Charles Peguy -- from An Almanac for Moderns / Donald Culross Peathe -- from Each Night a Child Is Born / Sophia Lyon Fahs -- from The Religion of an Inquiring Mind / Henry Wilder Foote -- from spiraling ecstatically this / e.e. cummings -- from a selection by W. Waldemar W. Arrow / W. Waldemar W. Arrow -- from Ceremony After a Fire Raid / Dylan Thomas -- I have an idea that there is a terrible force in everything / Joseph Capek -- from Man On His Nature / Charles Sherrington -- Polynesian Song / translated by Arthur S. Thomson -- Ortus / Ezra Pound -- from The Religion of an Inquiring Mind / Henry Wilder Foote -- For Carolyn / Carl Seaburg -- For the gift of childhood / Anonymous -- from The Newborn / C. Day Lewis --Give back life for life / H. D. Thoreau -- The Child and Its Parents / Kenneth L. Patton -- Dear Friends / Dana McLean Greeley -- from A Common Faith / John Dewey -- Within the personal community of marriage / J. P. Walgrave -- from A selection by David H. MacPherson / David H. MacPherson -- from the Garuda Purana / Anonymous -- from The Religion of an Inquiring Mind / Henry Wilder Foote -- from Insight and Responsibililty -- from Insight and Responsibility -- from Childhood and Society / Erik H. Erikson -- from A selection by Rudolph W. Nemser / Rudolph W. Nemser -- from The Journeys Echo / Freya Stark -- from Tomorrows Children / Brock Chisholm;FOR THE OCCASION OF MARRIAGE -- Such music in a skin! / Theodore Roethke -- Song II / John Hall Wheelock -- Fall of the Evening Star / Kenneth Patchen -- from Jesus / Kahlil Gibran -- from An Easter Carol / Christina Rossetti -- He who binds to himself a joy / William Blake -- It is for the union of you and me / Rabindranath Tagore -- Song of Songs / tr. T. J. Meek -- from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking / Walt Whitman -- from Poem / Kenneth Patchen -- from A selection by Paul Eluard / Paul Eluard -- love is a place / e. e. cummings -- from A selection by W. Waldemar W. Argow / W. Waldemar W. Argow -- from original draft Enfans dAdam / Walt Whitman -- from Earth Memories / Llewelyn Powys -- Joy / Carl Sandburg -- from Epitaph / William Carlos Williams -- African Bushman Song / Anonymous -- Loves characters come face to face / Wallace Stevens -- Sonnet III / James Russell Lowell -- from A selection by Rudolph W. Nemser / Rudolph W. Nemser -- Time wasteth years, and months, and hours, / Thomas Watson -- from Be Patient and Loving / Martin M. Weitz -- from September / Josephine Johnson -- from Lets Be Normal / Fritz Kunkel -- from Reason and Emotion / John MacMurray -- Loves Tranquility / Philip Sidney -- from Killers of the Dream / Lillian Smith -- Because they wish to dedicate themselves unto each other / Robert Botley -- We are gathered here to join / William R. Fortner -- The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea / Vladimir Nabokov -- It is one of lifes richest surprises / Anonymous -- Double Love Song / Thomas Whitbread -- from To My Sister / William Wordsworth -- from Gift from the Sea / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- from Wind, Sand, and Stars / Antoine de Saint-Exupry -- The more you love, the more love you are given to love with / Lucien Price -- from Letters / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from Gift from the Sea / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- from A selection by Theodore Parker / Theodore Parker -- from Preface to Morals / Walter Lippmann -- loves function is to fabricate unknownness / e. e. cummings -- Not from pride, but from humility / James Lawson --;No Time / W. H. Auden -- from A selection by Jorge Carrera Andrade / Jorge Carrera Andrade -- Inscription in Melrose Abbey / Anonymous -- from Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- from In Memory of Ernst Toller / W. H. Auden -- from Valediction / Richard Aldington -- Agonies are one of my changes of garments / Walt Whitman -- The Widows Lament in Springtime / William Carlos Williams -- from Daisy / Francis Thompson -- Sonnet 64 -- from Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- from Five Groups of Verse / Charles Reznikoff -- The Bourne / Christina Rossetti -- In Memory of Kathleen / Kenneth Patchen -- Mother-Loss / Kenneth L. Patton -- You have left me to linger in hopeless longing / Anonymous (Osage Indians) -- Futility / Wilfred Owen -- Under a Greenwood Tree / Sean OCasey -- from Eros and Civilization / Herbert Marcuse -- from A selection by David H. MacPherson / David H. MacPherson -- Suicide / Federico Garcia Lorca -- from the Kalevala / tr. Francis Magoun, Jr. -- Thermopylae / Robert Hillyer -- No worst, there is none / Gerart Manley Hopkins -- It is not death that is bitter / Greek Epigram -- from If We Had Known / Robert Francis -- from The Parker River / Richard Eberhart -- They say that Time assuages / Emily Dickinson -- Old Song / Hart Crane -- Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie / Ralph Chaplin -- I told a lie once in verse / John Berryman -- Youths Agitations / Matthew Arnold -- Looking at death is dying / Emily Dickinson -- from A selection by Theocritus of Syracuse / Theocritus of Syracuse -- It can be said that only man grieves / Chadbourne A. Spring -- from A Lament / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from The Sorrows of Unicume / Herbert Read -- The Soldier and the Star / Kenneth Patchen -- Polynesian Song / Anonymous -- She was this worlds / Francois de Malherbe -- For Elisabeth Morrow Morgan / Margaret I. Lamont -- from We Bereaved / Helen Keller -- For a Child Born Dead / Elizabeth Jennings -- It is very sad to lose your child just when he was beginning / Thomas H. Huxley -- Journeying over many seas / Gaius Valerius Catullus -- Upon a Child / Robert Henrick -- from Had You Been Old / Elizabeth Hollister Frost -- from Threnody / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from A selection by A. Powell Davies / A. Powell Davies -- from A selection by Paul N. Carnes / Paul N. Carnes -- Give Way to Grief / Melville Cane -- I wonder in what fields today / Chiyo -- from Perpetual Light / William Rose Bent -- Requiescat / Matthew Arnold -- from Discordants / Conrad Aiken -- Egypt and Greece good-bye, and good-bye Rome / William Butler Yeats;Beautiful are the youth / Robert Terry Weston -- from Poem on His Birthday -- from When Once the Twilight Locks No Longer / Dylan Thomas -- from In Memoriam / Alfred Tennyson -- Leave Me, O Love / Philip Sidney -- from The Far Field / Theodore Roethke -- Psalm 121 / Anonymous (adapted by Robert Zoerheide) -- from Mater Gloriosa / Lucien Price -- In a man who goes to the beyond for strength / Anonymous -- from The Lost World of the Kalahari / Laurens Van Der Post -- Conscientious Objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Blue Hens Chickens / Vincent McHugh -- Quaker Funeral / W. H. Matchett -- I must warn you that being an indifidual is a high-priced privilege. / Robert Killam -- Heaps of shards and shambles far and wide / Hermann Hesse -- from The Fruits of the Earth / Andr Gide -- A Defiance of Death / John Donne -- They gave us tomorrow! / A. Powell Davies -- Man shares with all complex forms of life the necessity of dying / Paul N. Carnes -- from The Universe of Humanism / Earl F. Cook -- The soul that loves and works will need no praise / W. M. W. Call -- We have gathered here at this time and in this place / Alfred S. Cole -- from The Voyage / Charles Baudelaire -- Epilogue to Asolando / Robert Browning -- from Perpetual Light / William Rose Bent -- Being Here / Walter Bauer -- What the grave says, the nest denies / Theodore Roethke -- from Salut Au Monde -- from Song of Myself -- To Think of Time / Walt Whitman -- from A Selection by Robert T. Weston / Robert T. Weston -- from And Death Shall Have No Dominion / Dylan Thomas -- Journal, February 27, 1841 / Henry David Thoreau -- from An Act of Life / Theodore Spencer -- Spirit has nothing to do with infinity / George Santayana -- from O, Thou Opening, O / Theodore Roethke -- from Litany for All Souls / Lucien Price -- from The Seed and the Sower / Laurens Van Der Post -- The rugged old Norsemen spoke of death as Heimgang / John Muir -- The Enthusiast / Herman Melville -- from The Immortality of Man / Jacques Maritain -- Infinity / Giacomo Leopardi -- The universe is deathless / Lao-Tse -- We leave the here below / Paul Klee -- Here we are, you and I / Robert Killam -- from Impassioned Clay / Ralph N. Helverson;Prayer Before Birth / Louis MacNeice -- from A selection by A. Powell Davies / A. Powell Davies -- We take the future from ourselves / Raymond J. Baughan -- And now may our hearts be open / Anonymous -- Friends, by bringing your children / Robert Zoerheide -- For the gift of childhood / Donald Johnston -- from A selection by Duncan Howlett / Duncan Howlett -- Friends, in the light of ancient custom / Anonymous -- In presenting your children / Lon Ray Call -- Rio Grande Pueblos / tr. Mary Austin -- As we contemplate the miracle of birth / Robert Marshall -- Pygmy Prayer / tr. Rex Benedict -- Friends, in bringing this child to be named / James Hunt and Paul Killinger -- from A selection by William B. Rice / William B. Rice -- from For Those Who Come After Us / Walter Rauschenbusch -- From the beginning of time, men and women have brought their children / James Hund and Paul Killinger -- The Child / Silence Buck Bellows -- Yourself! Yourself! Yourself, for ever and ever / Walt Whitman -- from This World, My Home / Kenneth L. Patton -- from The Spanish Tragedy / Thomas Kyd -- from Man Is the Meaning / Kenneth L. Patton -- from The Religion of an Inquiring Mind / Henry Wilder Foote -- from Song of Myself / Walt Whitman -- from A selection by Joshua Loth Liebman / Joshua Loth Liebman -- from To Think of Time / Walt Whitman -- from Childhood and Society / Erik H. Erikson -- Child, if betideth that thou shalt thrive and thee, / Anonymous (English, 14th Century) -- To a Baby / Kenneth L. Patton -- The egg has a mind / Robinson Jeffers -- from A Thanksgiving for Children / Kenneth L. Patton -- We are mindful that within each child / Fred A. Cappuccino -- from To Lucia at Birth / Robert Graves -- Lo, to the Battleground of Life / Louis Untermeyer -- from Insight and Responsibility / Erik H. Erikson -- from Requiem for the Living / C. Day Lewis -- Riders / Robert Frost -- from The Inner World of Childhood / Frances G. Wickes -- from A selection by Robert Edward Green / Robert Edward Green -- from De Rerum Virtue / Robinson Jeffers -- In our service of dedication, we give the child a flower / Rudolph W. Nemser -- from The Seed and the Sower / Laurens Van Der Post -- from A selection by Zui Indians / Anonymous -- FOR THE OCCASION OF COMING-OF-AGE -- The lords and owners of their faces / William Shakespeare -- Act in repose / Lao Tzu -- Sonnet 94 / William Shakespeare -- One who, being in a junior position, / Mencius -- from The Dhammapada / Buddha -- The Leaden-Eyed / Vachel Lindsay -- In all he does, / From the Sanskrit / tr. Daniel Ingalls -- from What Man May Be / George R. Harrison -- Thou, O my son, / Polynesian song / tr. Stephen Savage -- from Essays of a Humanist / Julian Huxley -- Members and friends, / Michael G. Young -- Put from you childish thoughts / From Chinese Capping Ceremony -- from A selection by Michael G. Young / Michael G. Young -- from Little Girl, My String Bean / Anne Sexton -- from Theres Something I Often Notice / Yevgeny Yevtushenko --;This is the second occasion upon which each of you takes the vow of matrimony / Robert Edward Green -- from Reason and Emotion / John MacMurray -- Song Set by John Farmer / Anonymous (c. 1600) -- I love you / Paul of Tarsus -- A Wedding Prayer / Dana Mclean Greeley -- Ring Ceremony / Kenneth L. Patton -- The metal in the rings / James Lawson -- from The Art of Loving / Erich Fromm -- Man, for all his ingenuity / Anonymous -- be of love(a little) / e.e. cummings -- from A selection by A. Powell Davies and Muriel Davies / A. Powell Davies and Muriel Davies -- from Letters to a Young Poet / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from The Basic Axiom of Marital Felicity / Donald Culross Peattie -- We are here as witness / James Lawson -- from A selection by David H. MacPherson / David H. MacPherson -- We have come here together that this man and this woman might bear witness / Michael Young -- Adapted from Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Charles White McGehee -- I. Thou shalt guard thine ability for lifelong learning / Henry Nelson Wieman -- FOR THE OCCASION OF DEATH -- The long custom of surrender / Alice James -- from A selection by Wang Wei -- After your burial on Stone-tower mountain / Wang Wei -- . . .The song is done / Tu Fu -- Peters Little Daughter Dies / Kenneth Patchen -- No one has found a way to avoid death / Anonymous (Omaha Indians) -- Anthem for Doomed Youth / Wilfred Owen -- Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Answers / Elizabeth Jennings -- Time / John Galsworthy -- Epilogue / John Berryman -- from An Elegy / David Gascoyne -- from Second Best / Rupert Brooke -- from Proposed Elegy for Jane Elizabeth Should She Die Young / Robert Bagg;A mans basic and essential faith is faith in himself / Robert Killam -- To a Traveller / Lionel Johnson -- from The Fiery Element / John Holmes -- Margaritae Sorori / William E. Henley -- Happy the man / Horace -- from Two Cheers for Democracy / E. M. Forster -- from Wild Grapes / Robert Frost -- from The Religion of an Inquiring Mind / Henry Wilder Foote -- from Tumultuous Shore / Arthur Ficke -- from Adam Bede / George Eliot -- from A Selection by Odysseus Elytis / Odysseus Elytis -- from Childhood and Society / Erik H. Erikson -- from her Letters / George Eliot -- We grow accustomed to the Dark / Emily Dickinson -- Take death for granted. / A. Powell Davies -- Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light / Emily Dickinson -- We commit the body of our beloved to the keeping of Mother Earth / Alfred S. Cole -- Epitaph for an Earth Lover / Joseph P. Brennan -- When Chuang Tzu was about to die / Chuang Tzu -- The Old Woman / Joseph Campbell -- In a little while I will be gone from you / Chief Crowfoot -- In death no strange new fate befalls us. / Chuang Tzu -- Elegy for Harry Erdman Perry / Wendell Berry -- from Accepting the Universe / John Burroughs -- Time / Bhartrihari -- When Death to either shall come / Robert Bridges -- This Small, Unseeing Figure Looked / William Brower -- from Epitaph on a Friend / Robert Burns -- from The Stricken Average / William Rose Bent -- Clouds come from time to time / Matsuo Basho -- from The Notebooks / Samuel Butler -- Holy Ground / Joseph Auslander -- The future is worth expecting / Henry David Thoreau -- Who shall be brave enough to sing / George C. Whitney -- Epitaph / John Hall Wheelock -- from Passage to India -- Darest Thou Now O Soul / Walt Whitman --