The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the ...
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over ...
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great ...
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea, A super-man swimming the ocean, ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
There's nothing grieves me, but that Age should haste, That in my days I may not see thee old, That ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
I first tasted under Apollo's lips, love and love sweetness, I, Evadne; my hair is made of crisp violets or ...
Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes, Come to yo' pappy an' set on his knee. What you been doin', suh ...
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
You know that Portrait in the Moon -- So tell me who 'tis like -- The very Brow -- the ...
The Moon was but a Chin of Gold A Night or two ago -- And now she turns Her perfect ...
In a slow drawn focus the concrete blocks that prop up my view of the sky morph soft and easy ...
THINK not, 'cause men flattering say You're fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as is the morning star, 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, ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
my secrets appear on your window when you fog the division with your own warm breath; you lost yourself in ...
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. ...
Swings the way still by hollow and hill, And all the world's a song; "She's far," it sings me, "but ...
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