The Gascon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
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 ...
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
Repeatedly, that sturdy stump in me bears up like stone, beneath some ritual I see: the blinding axe swings up, ...
A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. He wonders if he should try to shrink a pasture for ...
The first and last time I met my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at a protest poetry reading against some anti-constitutional ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the ...
Unworthy of her Breast Though by that scathing test What Soul survive? By her exacting light How counterfeit the white ...
They say that "Time assuages" -- Time never did assuage -- An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age ...
The Test of Love -- is Death -- Our Lord -- "so loved" -- it saith -- What Largest Lover ...
Revolution is the Pod Systems rattle from When the Winds of Will are stirred Excellent is Bloom But except its ...
Not that We did, shall be the test When Act and Will are done But what Our Lord infers We ...
Best Gains -- must have the Losses' Test -- To constitute them -- Gains -- (Emily Dickinson)
How brittle are the Piers On which our Faith doth tread -- No Bridge below doth totter so -- Yet ...
At Half past Three, a single Bird Unto a silent Sky Propounded but a single term Of cautious melody. At ...
The man whose term we would remember as our longest, constant serving Head of State, besides the late Sir Robert ...
Do I really love you? So let me guess, you'll think I'm easy prey if I say, okay I do ...
Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
It seldom snowed in Camp they said, on the mountains, yes, and in the Styx, aka zone six. That's where ...
Nothing came to claim my muse, instead I dreamed of freedoms neatly folded in a treasure chest lying in the ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
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