The Peasant And His Angry Lord (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
ONCE on a time, as hist'ry's page relates,A lord, possessed of many large estates,Was angry with a poor and humble ...
ONCE on a time, as hist'ry's page relates,A lord, possessed of many large estates,Was angry with a poor and humble ...
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to viewA ...
Dear Nan, I would not have thy counsel lost,Though I last night had twice so much been crost;Well is a ...
If we may breathe a prayer to Thee, Our Father and our Friend,Let neither wealth nor poverty Our earthly steps attend.But Thou, ...
Griefe, killing griefe, have not my torments beeneAlready great and strong enough? but stillThou dost increase, nay glory in mine ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
Come mourne, come mourne with mee,You loyall lovers all;Lament my loss in weeds of woe,Whom griping grief doth thrall.Like to ...
Their father's blessing on their knees they take,And now to Memphis quick advances make,Where safe arriv'd, but fearful of their ...
Of Hector's deeds did Homer sing,And of the sack of stately Troy, What griefs fair Helena did bring,Which was Sir ...
O Great Creator of the starrie Pole, and heauenly things O mightie founder of the earthly mole, chiefe king of ...
Formed for thyself, and turned to thee,Thy praises, Lord , I show;No more, with sacrilegious pride,I rob thee of thy ...
Since the Road of Life's so ill; I, to pass it, use this Skill, My frail Carriage driving home To ...
God, the offended God most high,Ambassadors to rebels sends;His messengers his place supply,And Jesus begs us to be friends. Us, ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
Since the Road of Life's so ill; I, to pass it, use this Skill, My frail Carriage driving home To ...
VNquiet thought, whom at the first I bred, Of th'inward bale of my loue pined hart: and sithens haue with ...
WHen I behold that beauties wonderment, And rare perfection of each goodly part; of natures skill the only complement, I ...
MY loue is lyke to yse, and I to fyre; how comes it then that this her cold so great ...
Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre, Where kindly mingling Souls a while, Let's innocently spend an houre, And at all ...
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