The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its ...
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" ...
Because finally the personal is all that matters, we spend years describing stones, chairs, abandoned farmhouses- until we're ready. Always ...
He climbed toward the blinding light and when his eyes adjusted he looked down and could see his fellow prisoners ...
This is not the way I am. Really, I am much taller in person, the hairline I conceal reaches back ...
Because you love me I have much achieved, Had you despised me then I must have failed, But since I ...
Trust in the Unexpected -- By this -- was William Kidd Persuaded of the Buried Gold -- As One had ...
I prayed, at first, a little Girl, Because they told me to -- But stopped, when qualified to guess How ...
A Murmur in the Trees -- to note -- Not loud enough -- for Wind -- A Star -- not ...
Summer -- we all have seen -- A few of us -- believed -- A few -- the more aspiring ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
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