Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore,Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store;Each FAIR, with anxious look, ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore,Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store;Each FAIR, with anxious look, ...
All priests are not the same, be understood!Priests are, like other folks, some bad, some good.What's vice or virtue, sure ...
Where gentle Deva's lucid waters glide In slow meanders thro' the winding vale, And fertile Cestria's pastures green divide; Deep in the bosom ...
I.1. The fading gleam of parting day Forsakes the western sky, Now shines Diana's chaster ray With virgin majesty; Her face with milder glory bright Pales ...
'Come, pretty birds, present your lays,And learn to chaunt a goddess praise;Ye wood-nymphs, let your voices beEmploy'd to serve her ...
PLACE this bunch of mignonetteIn her cold, dead hand;When the golden sun is set,Where the poplars stand,Bury her from sun ...
'Twas not satiety-disgust- That led a wanderer forth to roam, To look for hearts of firmer trust, Or brighter eyes-thus far from home; 'Twas ...
IYou say you love ; but with a voiceChaster than a nun's, who singethThe soft Vespers to herselfWhile the chime-bell ...
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
We took a walk to Pamphy linns— Three other friends and I,Glad-hearted as when day begins With summer in the ...
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
SISTER of Faith and Charity, Where there are only three;Fit habitant of heaven, yet content, ...
MAORILAND, my mother!Holds the earth so fair another?O, my land of the moa and Maori,Garlanded grand with your forests of ...
SUCH were the notes our chaster SAPPHO sung,And every muse dropt honey on her tongue.Blest shade ! how pure a ...
WHAT sound of woe from yonder groveFloats mournful on the dying gale?Like echo to the plaintive dove,Responsive through the winding ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
See with what simplicity This Nimph begins her golden daies! In the green Grass she loves to lie, And there ...
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