The Dress-Maker (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and one window and one ...
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise ...
The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
I like to hear of wealth and gold, And El Doradoes in their glory; I like for silks and satins ...
The Color of the Grave is Green -- The Outer Grave -- I mean -- You would not know it ...
Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning -- Lightning -- lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality. Maimed ...
How News must feel when travelling If News have any Heart Alighting at the Dwelling 'Twill enter like a Dart! ...
You and me, the proof is there to see, our lives are held within the spell of great simplicity, we're ...
(Mark, xi.17) Thy mansion is the Christian's heart, O Lord, Thy dwelling place secure! Bid the unruly throng depart, And ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
"Are you deaf, Father William!" the young man said, "Did you hear what I told you just now? "Excuse me ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove, And list the nightingale- she dwells just here. Hush ! let the wood-gate ...
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
It is that perennial immateriality dwelling between living and dying crouched in the corners and grappling by the hinges only ...
Eternal Power, of earth and air! Unseen, yet seen in all around, Remote, but dwelling everywhere, Though silent, heard in ...
Eternal power of earth and air, Unseen, yet seen in all around, Remote, but dwelling everywhere, Though silent, heard in ...
THERE'S no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping A remembrance in ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
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