The Quid Pro Quo; Or The Mistakes (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
When I puff my cigarette,Straight I see a Spanish girl,-Mantilla, fan, coquettish curl,Languid airs and dimpled face,Calculating, fatal grace;Hear a ...
Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark'sA rumor &mdash lean, alongside &mdash rides out boat;For of us off with ...
The boat was rolling over in an ocean...The dream threw me on the shores of Marmara!I saw from only a ...
O August, brown and sleepy-eyed and mellow,Cinctured with vines and straying here and there,And permeating all the odorous airWith an ...
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?They took my lover's tallness off to war,Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guessWhat I ...
She was a beauty in the daysWhen Madison was President;And quite coquettish in her ways-On cardiac conquests much intent.Grandpapa, on ...
Oh what is fame! a flower that dies at eve, A golden mist that subtle fancies weave, An unknown star ...
A week ago; only a little week:it seems so much much longer, though that dayis every morning still my yesterday;as ...
At times thy image to my mind returns, Aspasia. In the crowded streets it gleams Upon me, for an instant, ...
She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty ...
Now with a humming from the greening skies,Sphinx moths with course set true,Shoot forth, torpedoes with a spinning screw,And bulbous ...
1Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!Oh the Earth was made ...
The ladies of Sevilla go forth to take the air,They loop their lace mantillas, a red rose in their hair;Upon ...
Walking on the path Looking for a gator Down by the water A star preens for me And my camera ...
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine! Oh the Earth ...
as old zagreb lies there on the wait for a young friend driving, i question myself, "Do you love nausea?"; ...
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