The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
It went many years, But at last came a knock, And I though of the door With no lock to ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
My walls outside must have some flowers, My walls within must have some books; A house that's small; a garden ...
If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage; If Right made Might, this were the golden age; But now, ...
I read within a poet's book A word that starred the page: "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor ...
All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of "Currer Bell" In quiet "Haworth" laid. Gathered ...
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...
To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...
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, ...
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it ...
If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Now that I have your face by heart, I look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince ...
All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day, And I, in the cage of sleep, on a stranger's ...
The little letters dance across the page, Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes; Sick of the strain, the ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
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