The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman, Some type of supernatural creature. My mother would tell you, ...
Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright-- Jellicles come to ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
Come to the pane, draw the curtain apart, There she is passing, the girl of my heart; See where she ...
In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark; What sea soever swallow ...
This Me -- that walks and works -- must die, Some fair or stormy Day, Adversity if it may be ...
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where ...
TO these whom death again did wed This grave 's the second marriage-bed. For though the hand of Fate could ...
1 Ye Mariners of England 2 That guard our native seas, 3 Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, 4 ...
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries, ``Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row ...
Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of ...
The billows swell, the winds are high, Clouds overcast my wintry sky; Out of the depths to Thee I call, ...
I'll tell thee everything I can: There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, A-sitting on a gate. ...
'Haddock's Eyes' or 'The Aged Aged Man' or 'Ways and Means' or 'A-Sitting On A Gate' I'll tell thee everything ...
I'll tell thee everything I can; There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, A-sitting on a gate. ...
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I've seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch ...
YE holy tow'rs, that crown the azure deep, Still may ye shade the wave-worn rock sublime, Though, hurrying silent by, ...
O TWEED! a stranger, that with wand'ring feet O'er hill and dale has journey'd many a mile, (If so his ...
I hold her letter as I stand, Nor break the seal; no need to guess What dainty little female hand ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending, Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars, Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending, Earth ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
It was the first gift he ever gave her, buying it for five five francs in the Galeries in pre-war ...
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