The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
When three, he fished these lakes, Curled sleeping on a lip of rock, Crib blankets tucked from ants and fishbone ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...
You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees! The Original Conjuring Cat-- (There can be no doubt about that). Please listen to ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. Of ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
Oh Future! thou secreted peace Or subterranean woe -- Is there no wandering route of grace That leads away from ...
Mama never forgets her birds, Though in another tree -- She looks down just as often And just as tenderly ...
Let Us play Yesterday -- I -- the Girl at school -- You -- and Eternity -- the Untold Tale ...
I breathed enough to take the Trick -- And now, removed from Air -- I simulate the Breath, so well ...
All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of "Currer Bell" In quiet "Haworth" laid. Gathered ...
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And ...
A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard -- Till morning ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows Into the angry main, ...
I do not love thee for that fair Rich fan of thy most curious hair; Though the wires thereof be ...
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The sage lectured brilliantly. Before him, two images: "Now this one is a devil, And this one is me." He ...
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