The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;—A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;It seems a prudent woman he had wed,With beauty that ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;—A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;It seems a prudent woman he had wed,With beauty that ...
The Brutons thus departed hence, seven kingdoms here begun,--Where diversely in divers broils the Saxons lost and won,--King Edel and ...
How spake the Oracle, my Curtius, how?Methought, while on the shadowed terracesI walked and looked toward Rome, an echo cameOf ...
1 He wandered into the market2 With pipes and goatish hoof;3 He wandered in a grotesque shape,4 And no one ...
Sly Merry Andrew, the last Southwark fair;(At Bartholomew he did not much appear,So peevish was the dict of the Mayor)At ...
From the pensive treachery of my cellI can hear your mournful yell.Centuries of pain are pressedInto one unconscious jestAs your ...
GREEN wings and yellow breasts on birds that stareThat turn their heads and stare,And a red streamer tail!They come from ...
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Ye dear stars of the Bear, I did not think I should again be turning, as I used, To see ...
IT was the time, when rest soft sliding downeFrom heauens hight into mens heauy eyes,In the forgetfulnes of sleepe doth ...
Januarie: ?gloga Prime. Colin Cloute.A Shepeheards boye (no better doe him call)when Winters wastful spight was almost spent,All in a ...
RecitativeLet clownish Cymon, in fond rustic strains,To lovely Iphigene declare his pains;Let tink'ring Tom for dustcart Sylvia pine,I sing St. ...
By myself walking,To myself talking,When as I ruminateOn my untoward fate,Scarcely seem IAlone sufficiently,Black thoughts continuallyCrowding my privacy;They come unbidden,Like ...
"GAUNT, rueful knight, on raw-boned, shambling hack, Thy battered morion, shield and rusty spear, Jog ever down the road in ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
It never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death, with ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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