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 ...
False world, thy malice I espieWith what thou hast designed;And therein with thee to comply,Who likewise are combined:But, do thy ...
O the sacred generations That have lived, and failed, and died!And for our sakesoursthe freed ones, Found their liberties denied!Oh, the helpless ...
"How many times and oft" has the sweet, sweet word been sung insong and told in story. And he sang ...
I do not know why I was born into this world,I do not ask why I shall die.When I was ...
Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out ...
"Give me some light!" cries Hamlet'suncle midway through the murderof Gonzago. "Light! Light!" cry scatteringcourtesans. Here, as in Denmark,it's dark ...
No charms she now can boast,--'tis true,But other charmers wither too:"And she is old,"--the fact I know,And old will other ...
Fear not! For unto you is born a Child,In David's city Christ the Lord is born!(And babes today, Life's heritage ...
Discerning Mr. Murphy sees The dangers of the foolish planOf giving frailty its fees, And taxing weak, misguided man.Reluctantly, and ...
We have another viceroy now, -- those days are dead and done Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne. Delilah ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
starving there, sitting around the bars, and at night walking the streets for hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to ...
When Winchester races first took their beginning It is said the good people forgot their old Saint Not applying at ...
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Of who fucks who, and who does worse (Such as you usually do ...
The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, more likely they were the random associations and confused ramblings of a ...
The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, more likely they were the random associations and confused ramblings of a ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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