The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,The not-incurious in God's handiwork(This man's-flesh he hath admirably made,Blown like a bubble, kneaded like ...
The shepherd sings:-- "_Way down in Dixie, Way down in Dixie,Where the hens are dog-gone glad to lay_ ..."With shaded eyes he ...
IHis eyes found nothing beautiful and bright,Nor wealth nor honour, glory nor delight,Which he could grasp and keep with might ...
I'm a century old and more to-day-- A ripe old age for a modern man,--Yet they who rocked my cradle, they ...
IHe was not learned in any art;But Nature led him by the hand;And spoke her language to his heartSo he ...
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
She rose in moonlight, and stood, confronting sea, With her bare arms uplifted, And lifted her voice in the silence ...
Fra Paolo, since they say the end is near,And you of all men have the gentlest eyes,Most like our father ...
Thy greatest knew thee, Mother Earth; unsoured He knew thy sons. He probed from hell to hell Of human passions, ...
(I) if you can't scientifically explain it dawkins says it has no value - some hope inside the mechanical framework ...
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
The dark wings of night enfolded the city upon which Nature had spread a pure white garment of snow; and ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen -- Some Polar Expiation -- An Omen in ...
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; 'Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
The Dreamer visioned Life as it might be, And from his dream forthright a picture grew, A painting all the ...
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which ...
My Lady unto Madam makes her bow. The charm of women is, that even while You're probed by them for ...
FLESH, I have knocked at many a dusty door, Gone down full many a midnight lane, Probed in old walls ...
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