A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
NO master sage, nor orator I know,Who can success, like gentle Cupid show;His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles,Engaging looks, ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know,Who can success, like gentle Cupid show;His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles,Engaging looks, ...
FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed,And all ...
By Sylvia if thy charming self be meant;If friendship be thy virgin vows' extent,O! let me in Aminta's praises join,Hers ...
Odi quelrusignoloChe va di ramo in ramoCantado; io amo; io amo. Tasso's AmintaThis mournful heart can dream of nought but thee, As ...
All trembling in my arms Aminta lay,Defending of the bliss I strove to take;Raising my rapture by her kind delay,Her ...
The courtly serenaders, The beauteous listeners,Sit idling 'neath the branches A balmy zephyr stirs.It's Tircis and Aminta, Clitandre,—ever there!—Damis, of melting sonnets To many ...
Amaryllis. While from the skies the ruddy sun descends,And rising night the evening shade extends;While pearly dews o'erspread the fruitful ...
"CEASE, cease, Aminta, to complain, Thy languishments give o'er, Why should'st thou sigh because the swain Another does ...
All trembling in my arms Aminta lay,Defending of the bliss I strove to take;Raising my rapture by her kind delay,Her ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
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