The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise,That most forgot from which true bliss would riseWhen marriage for a daughter ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise,That most forgot from which true bliss would riseWhen marriage for a daughter ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer:Of France the pride and honour I aver;The Holy Ampoule and delicious wine,Which ...
Since, dearest Harry, you will needs requestA short account of all the Muse possest,That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's ...
THE low'ring, leaden-colour'd evening cloud,The chilling frost, the billows breaking loud,The wish excite, contented to retire,"To pause from toil, and ...
INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WAN-DERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALLAT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TOBE VISITED ...
La _Gitanilla!_ tall dragoons In Andalusian afternoons, With ogling eye and compliment Smiled on you, as along you went Some sleepy street of old ...
THE RECORDER'S SPEECH EXPLAINED BY THE TORIESAn ancient metropolis, famous of lateFor opposing the Church, and for nosing the State,For ...
Upon my smile let none pass compliment If it but gleam like an enchanting ray Of sunshine caught from some sweet summer ...
PreludesI The Rose of the World Lo, when the Lord made North and ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
i got acquainted with a parrot named pete recently who is an interesting bird pete says he used to belong ...
With sagest craft Arachne workedHer web, and at a corner lurked,Awaiting what should plump her soon,To case it in the ...
When Tiger left his native yard, He did not many ills regard, A fleet and harmless cur; Indeed, he was ...
MISFORTUNE to have lived not knowing thee! 'T were not high living, nor to noblest end, Who, dwelling near, learned ...
We have another viceroy now, -- those days are dead and done Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne. Delilah ...
In a lot of ways that was the greatest compliment I could have been given at that moment in that ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
a Memo from the Past this is to compliment those who have made us petrified and conjured up evidence of ...
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