The Quid Pro Quo; Or The Mistakes (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
Stranger! this lonely glen in ancient timesWas named the glen of blood; nor Christian feetBy night or day, from these ...
SWEET scene, on me full often hast thou smil'd,And for a while my pressing cares beguil'd;In thee have I spent ...
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:We didn't always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this ...
What will we dowhen there is nobody leftto kill? *40,000 gallons of oil gushing intothe oceanBut Isit on top this mountainside ...
O ye in power, thus placed to ministerTo every pressing local, social claim,Of those who gave you this authority,Trusting you ...
The artist and the loom unseen, In textures soft as _crepe de chine_ Spring weaves her royal robe of green, With grasses fringed ...
The Scottish hinds, too poor to houseIn frosty nights their starving cows,While not a blade of grass or hayAppears from ...
(Writtten in her thirteenth year.)Why that blush on Ella's cheek,What doth the flitting wand'rer seek?Doth passion's black'ning tempest scowl,To agitate ...
'MISERRIMUS,' and neither name nor date,Prayer, text, or symbol, graven upon the stone;Nought but that word assigned to the unknown,That ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
This wearisome and this distressing sleep That we call life, O how dost thou support, My Pepoli? With what hopes ...
Down here in Cactus Center we have lived a life apart;We've been far, we're frank in sayin', from the headquarters ...
Salute the august train! a scene so grand, With every tuneful band; The mighty brave, His country bound to save, ...
WANDERING amid the horrors of the night, Musing, my sighs mix with the whistling wind, Dim watery shadows shroud my ...
One star alone from the blue sky Looks down upon the simple stream,With such a quiet, loving eye, That I ...
Well has thy classick chisel, Banks*, express'd The graceful lineaments of that fine form, Which late with conscious, living beauty ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
for Ruth Fainlight I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root; It is what ...
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