St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,How many round attribute all their cares!In these howe'er I never can believe,And ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,How many round attribute all their cares!In these howe'er I never can believe,And ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;—A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;It seems a prudent woman he had wed,With beauty that ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at easeBoth names and titles, freely as they please.It costs them scarcely any thing, ...
Science! thou mirror of celestial type Wherein e'en mortals may discerning see,If they with steady perseverance seek, The will and purpose of ...
Sail not too rashly out to sea,My friend, nor, fearful of the roarOf winds and waters, hug too closeThe rocky ...
'Attar began The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-tair) with an invocation praising the holy Creator in which he suggested ...
Learn, learn, learn,— Our beautiful world is not a field for sheep; Not just a place wherein to laugh and ...
'Twas hard to think that he must go,We knew that we should miss him so,We thought that he must always ...
I laugh sometimes when I think aboutsayC?line at a typewriteror Dostoevsky…or Hamsun…ordinary men with feet, ears, eyes,ordinary men with hair ...
Sail not too rashly out to sea, My friend, nor, fearful of the roar Of winds and waters, hug too ...
JUST about the time the clouds are blackestLet your thoughts go roving to the sun,Just about the time your job ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
The dogs greet me, I descend into their world of fur and tongues and then my wife and I embrace ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
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