The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
CUPID, ere depriv'd of Sight, Young and apt for all Delight, Met with Folly on the way, As Idle and ...
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea, A super-man swimming the ocean, ...
What boots it, thy virtue, What profit thy parts, While one thing thou lackest, The art of all arts! The ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
From citron-bower be her bed, cut from branch of tree a-flower, fashioned for her maidenhead. From Lydian apples, sweet of ...
Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die, And yet complain'st of his great jealousy; If swol'n with poison, he ...
God gave a Loaf to every Bird -- But just a Crumb -- to Me -- I dare not eat ...
They spoke of Progress spiring round, Of light and Mrs Humphrey Ward-- It is not true to say I frowned, ...
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale, He ate his egg with a ladle ...
When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, The debt of his nature did pay, T' was Edward, the cruel, ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
And then life; and once again A house where I was born. Around us The granary above what once had ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
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