The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca A dream it was in which I found myself. And you ...
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the daft sun-assaulter, he That frightened thee so oft, is fled or ...
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
As I went down to Dymchurch Wall, I heard the South sing o'er the land I saw the yellow sunlight ...
The priest never used blueprints, but worked all the many designs out of his head. Father Wilerus, transplanted Alsatian, built ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
At dawn I dreamed of wispy clouds, I had the time to wield and watched the regimented lines of cirrus ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
See how her hair has thinned: it does not seem / like hair at all, but like the airy moult ...
Soft was the night, the eve how airy, When through the big, fat dictionary I wandered on in careless ease, ...
Away, sad thoughts, and teasing Perplexities, away! Let other blood go freezing, We will be wise and gay. For here ...
In the high leaves of a walnut, On the very topmost boughs, A boy that climbed the branching bole His ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
A girl sang a song in the temple's chorus, About men, tired in alien lands, About the ships that left ...
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
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