The Truckers (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
"You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as ...
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
What did They do since I saw Them? Were They industrious? So many questions to put Them Have I the ...
Were it to be the last How infinite would be What we did not suspect was marked -- Our final ...
Until the Desert knows That Water grows His Sands suffice But let him once suspect That Caspian Fact Sahara dies ...
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun Seductive in the Air -- That Tun is hollow -- but the ...
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower And casually glance Would scarcely cause one to suspect The minor ...
A still -- Volcano -- Life -- That flickered in the night -- When it was dark enough to do ...
A Pit -- but Heaven over it -- And Heaven beside, and Heaven abroad, And yet a Pit -- With ...
A loss of something ever felt I -- The first that I could recollect Bereft I was -- of what ...
The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear -- Their coming back seems possible For many ...
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, ...
I gave myself to Him -- And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this ...
Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so What all the world suspect? An hour, and gay on ...
A Lady red -- amid the Hill Her annual secret keeps! A Lady white, within the Field In placid Lily ...
These painful, cold athritic fingers have to last much longer yet, they're all I have to keep the pages on ...
When one of them passed through the market place of Seleucia, toward the hour that night falls as a tall ...
It is not sweet content, be sure, That moves the nobler Muse to song, Yet when could truth come whole ...
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 ...
He lay within a warm, soft world Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled, Maroon and turquoise, saffron, red, Wave upon ...
I. You know, we French stormed Ratisbon: A mile or so away, On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our ...
That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide ...
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