The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
It sometimes happens that the woman you meet and fall in love with is of that strange Transylvanian people with ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
To such as say thy love I overprize, And do not stick to term my praises folly, Against these folks, ...
Who occupies this House? A Stranger I must judge Since No one know His Circumstance -- 'Tis well the name ...
To own the Art within the Soul The Soul to entertain With Silence as a Company And Festival maintain Is ...
Longing is like the Seed That wrestles in the Ground, Believing if it intercede It shall at length be found. ...
I had no Cause to be awake -- My Best -- was gone to sleep -- And Morn a new ...
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower And casually glance Would scarcely cause one to suspect The minor ...
Alone and in a Circumstance Reluctant to be told A spider on my reticence Assiduously crawled And so much more ...
"Sown in dishonor"! Ah! Indeed! May this "dishonor" be? If I were half so fine myself I'd notice nobody! "Sown ...
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
Don't talk to me of War or stalk the ground our fabled soldiers died upon, I'm sound of limb and ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
And all at length are gathered in. --LOUISE BOGAN By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
The Milk-and-Water School Alas! she would not hear my prayer! Yet it were rash to tear my hair; Disfigured, I ...
The earth is full of rhythms so precise the octave of the crystal can produce a trillion oscillations, yet not ...
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