Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
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 ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
Nothing to say to all those marriages! She had made three herself to three of his. The score was even ...
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
No ship of all that under sail or steam Have gathered people to us more and more But Pilgrim-manned the ...
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
We get on a boat, never mind if it sinks, we pay the captain by throwing him overboard. And when ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
They sleep well here, These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days In fierce Atlantic ways; And found not there, Beneath ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
We were born of tea, our mum could drink fourteen cups a day, an awesome feat to try to rationalise, ...
Gnashing teeth, a grinding meet of molars crashing cuspid on cuspid and the fracture of a piece, of pressure not ...
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
She came at night, her gentle hands defused the ticking bomb that was his brain, she soothed the pain and ...
Michelle, the thought of you confused or under siege bereaves us; you, the cheerful heart who waged a silent war ...
It happened by Bretton Wood (although that wasn't it's real name) and I recall a clear, grey dawn and the ...
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
Is there another world for this frail dust To warm with life and be itself again? Something about me daily ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
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