The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array,A younger brother homeward bent his way,Not much improved, as frequently the caseWith ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array,A younger brother homeward bent his way,Not much improved, as frequently the caseWith ...
"Call that a yarn!" said old Tom Pugh, "What rot! I'll lay my hatI'll sling you a yarn worth more nor ...
A poet had a cat. There is nothing odd in that- (I might make a little pun about the Mews!) But what is ...
Light of the World, and Ruler of the Year,With happy Speed begin Thy great Career;And, as Thou dost thy radiant ...
"GOD bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I:And bless him, also, that he ...
I saw within the wheelwright's shedThe big round cartwheels, blue and red;A plough with blunted share;A blue tin jug; a ...
Her doctor advising, a victim of grippeSet out on a journey to Rome;But ere she reached Naples, she threw up ...
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
Some of my friends (for friends I must suppose All, who, not daring to appear my foes, Feign great ...
PART I Queen Hilda rode along the lines, And she was young and fair; And forward on her shoulders fell ...
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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