A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
NO master sage, nor orator I know,Who can success, like gentle Cupid show;His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles,Engaging looks, ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know,Who can success, like gentle Cupid show;His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles,Engaging looks, ...
IMemphis and Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, the Nile:Of these your letters told; and I who readSaw loom on dim horizons Egypt's ...
Ye little think what toil it was to buildA world of men imperfect even as this,Where we conceive of Good ...
Our poet has never as yet Esteemed it proper or fit To detain you ...
DICAEOPOLIS Be not surprised, most excellent spectators, If I that am a beggar have presumed To claim ...
Tell me ye King-craft of to-day Where is Athens, who made men free; Then sank into stupor by the way, ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
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