The Wife Of Bath Her Tale (John Henry Dryden Poems)
In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,The king of elves, ...
In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,The king of elves, ...
Part One[A walled garden of York. It is an August Sunday, and the baying of deep church-bells is blown faintly ...
"Earth, earth on the mouth of Oran, that he may blab no more." Gaelic Proverb. I.THE storm had ceased to rave: ...
Content.See Discontent.Let the rich Miser gather golden Gain,And live the large Possessor of the Plain:Whom Fears perpetual scare with neighb'ring ...
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
But say thou very woman, why to meThis fit of weakness and inconstancie?What forfeit have I made of word or ...
UNCLE JOHN, he makes me tired;Thinks 'at he's jest so all-firedSmart, 'at he kin pick up, so,Ever'thing he wants to ...
Peace my hearts blab, be ever dumb,Sorrowes speak loud without a tongue:And my perplexed thoughts forbearTo breath your selves in ...
Crassus, the Poet's and the Villain's Tool,Just Wise enough to think himself a Fool,Swears that in each Lampoon he sees ...
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
The conq'rin' 'ero! Me? Yes, I don't think. This mornin' when I catch the train fer 'ome,It's far more ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
How sweet and pleasant grows the way Through summer time again While Landrails call from day to day Amid the ...
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb'd ...
There can be certain potions needled in the clock for the body's fall from grace, to untorture and to plead ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
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