The Three Gossips’ Wager (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
Is this a dream?—-another dream,Like that which stole my senses first,Which sparkled o'er my life's dull stream,By idle, erring fancy ...
LET all thy words a Christian import bear,Let them, with grace, at all times season'd be,That they may knowledge give ...
As if heaven openedin a downpour of scabs and cursesthat washed my blessings offand made me stand before you naked.Loneliness ...
Now you hear what the house has to say.Pipes clanking, water running in the dark,the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,and ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. A Modern Head--Dress, with a little Polite Conversation. What base ...
SAY, lordly Man, of pow'rs possest,That no inferior creatures know;Say, can the mind with reason blest,Relentless fury show.To thy domain ...
They didn't meet me, roamed,On steps with lanterns bright.I entered quiet homeIn murky, pail moonlight. Under a lamp's green halo,With ...
Crow, feeling his brain slip, Finds his every feather the fossil of a murder. Who murdered all these? These living ...
More than a heavenly visitor in Christ, God come to earth walking as a man so we could have new ...
The commands of God the law, the decrees rules for the people how to live in community Violating the rules ...
In secret, and in darkness the storm cloud more than gathering Christ before the Sanhedrin scheming to put him to ...
Even in their accusations failing to understand his language, parables more than they could stand God's temple, the temple of ...
In the mockery of a trial a corrupt court convening in the dark of the night in secret and in ...
Those in the room that night the priests, the leaders, the elders those charged to know and teach the law ...
God, the prisoner standing in the dock accused, before the righteous quietly hearing their abuse The lies, false accusations in ...
All of his ministry his time in the land proclaiming the word of God bringing a message of love reconciling ...
The cries of our savior piercing the silence the long night of his suffering too much for him to take ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
I WANDER down on Clinton street south of Polk And listen to the voices of Italian children quarreling. It is ...
In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...
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