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 ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...
Let me but love my love without disguise, Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new, Nor wait to ...
Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side, Buffet, and scoff, scourge, and crucify me, For I have ...
At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, ...
Joy to have merited the Pain -- To merit the Release -- Joy to have perished every step -- To ...
A Tongue -- to tell Him I am true! Its fee -- to be of Gold -- Had Nature -- ...
"Unto Me?" I do not know you -- Where may be your House? "I am Jesus -- Late of Judea ...
Sang from the Heart, Sire, Dipped my Beak in it, If the Tune drip too much Have a tint too ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the ...
Too many, Lord, abuse Thy grace In this licentious day, And while they boast they see Thy face, They turn ...
Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me, My peace and pardon to procure, The lighter cross I bear for Thee, ...
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
Phone for the fish knives, Norman As cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I ...
Let me take this other glove off As the vox humana swells, And the beauteous fields of Eden Bask beneath ...
Well, eight months ago one clear cold day, I took a ramble up Broadway, And with my hands behind my ...
Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth, Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way And faint before ...
Oppressed with sin and woe, A burdened heart I bear, Opposed by many a mighty foe: But I will not ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
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