The King Of Yvetot (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said, Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his ...
There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said, Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his ...
What happier haunt could the gods allotFor loftiest musing to sage or bard?-Yet I would that this upper verandah did ...
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
?neas read what Dido wrote, And sent her this replie;And sought to cure the curelesse wound,Which Dido made to die.When ...
Svend Vonved sits in his lonely bower;He strikes his harp with a hand of power;His harp return'd a responsive din;Then ...
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
Thenceforth alone the long-armed monarch strode, Not looking back,--nay, not for Bhima's sake,--But walking with his face set ...
Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,leader beloved, and long he ruledin fame with all folk, since his ...
We build with strength and deep tower wallThat shall be shattered thus and thus.And fair and great are court and ...
All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy ...
Go count the violets on April's breast, And all the rosy censers swung by June; Yea, every flower that opens, ...
OH! thoughts of Genius, cloth'd in hues divine, And sanctifying this time-honour'd spot,-- Oh! sacrifices on the holy shrine Of ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
My loue is now awake out of her dreame, and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were With darksome ...
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