The Little Bell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
Having a wheel and four legs of its own Has never availed the cumbersome grindstone To get it anywhere that ...
Now that they've got it settled whose I be, I'm going to tell them something they won't like: They've got ...
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
Here come the line-gang pioneering by, They throw a forest down less cut than broken. They plant dead trees for ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
I wake and hearing it raining. Were I dead, what would I give Lazily to lie here, Like this, and ...
In the night there are of course the seven wonders of the world and the greatness tragedy and enchantment. Forests ...
A monster taught To come to hand Amain, As swift as thought Across the land The train. The song it ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
"Lights out" along the land, "Lights out" upon the sea. The night must put her hiding hand O'er peaceful towns ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
The mist has left the greening plain, The dew-drops shine like fairy rain, The coquette rose awakes again Her lovely ...
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey ...
In Winter in my Room I came upon a Worm -- Pink, lank and warm -- But as he was ...
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleaded, By the woak tree's mossy moot, The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, Now do quiver under voot; ...
'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleaded, By the woak tree's mossy moot, The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, Now do quiver under voot; ...
Everything has its limit, including sorrow. A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon a leaf. One may ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of you, and wove Its laughter with the ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
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