The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
But let us leave Queen Mab a while, Through many a gate, o'er many a stile, That now had gotten ...
FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The land was broken in despair, The princes quarrelled in the dark, When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air ...
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or ...
The Merchant of the Picturesque A Counter has and sales But is within or negative Precisely as the calls -- ...
Myself can read the Telegrams A Letter chief to me The Stock's advance and Retrograde And what the Markets say ...
Had I not This, or This, I said, Appealing to Myself, In moment of prosperity -- Inadequate -- were Life ...
Fate slew Him, but He did not drop -- She felled -- He did not fall -- Impaled Him on ...
Advance is Life's condition The Grave but a Relay Supposed to be a terminus That makes it hated so -- ...
It don't sound so terrible -- quite -- as it did -- I run it over -- "Dead", Brain, "Dead." ...
From Blank to Blank -- A Threadless Way I pushed Mechanic feet -- To stop -- or perish -- or ...
It was my life in fast review, initially at double speed until I learned which functions scrolled the images on ...
THE ORB I like is not the one That dazzles with its lightning gleam; That dares to look upon the ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
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