The Cradle (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
Those who have touched it or been touched by it Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed, Or ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
The stupid jerk I'm obsessed with stands so close to me I can feel his breath on my neck and ...
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...
These Strangers, in a foreign World, Protection asked of me -- Befriend them, lest Yourself in Heaven Be found a ...
The Frost was never seen -- If met, too rapid passed, Or in too unsubstantial Team -- The Flowers notice ...
The Crickets sang And set the Sun And Workmen finished one by one Their Seam the Day upon. The low ...
Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen -- A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs ...
After a hundred years Nobody knows the Place Agony that enacted there Motionless as Peace Weeds triumphant ranged Strangers strolled ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
Here at the spoke-ends of our galaxy it is easy to forget the central axle moving insensibly slow, still the ...
As the salmon seeks its mother gravel through the lying ions of the sea, I seek you. Without your body ...
Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one: to her I send the coffin of lightest ...
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All ...
It's what the kids nowadays call weed. And it drifts like clouds from his lips. He hopes no one comes ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Since all, that beat about in Nature's range, Or veer or vanish ; why should'st thou remain The only constant ...
A short direction To avoid dejection, By variations In occupations, And prolongation Of relaxation, And combinations Of recreations, And disputation ...
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove, And list the nightingale- she dwells just here. Hush ! let the wood-gate ...
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
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