The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine,Oft pranks are played that show a deep design;Men are but men, and friars full as ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine,Oft pranks are played that show a deep design;Men are but men, and friars full as ...
I. I come from fields of fractured ice, Whose wounds are cured by squeezing, Melting they cool, but in a trice, Get warm again ...
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
E. S.Once a lively image of human nature, Such as God made itWhen he pronounced every work of his to be ...
<i>And place is always and only placeAnd what is actual is actual only for one timeAnd only for one place ...
Daedalus says:Go on sonny but remember that you are walking and not flyingthe wings are just an ornament and you ...
Elevation bestows the sky's nearness to my abodeI am the mountain's cloud, my skirt sprinkles rosesNow the wilderness, now the ...
When there wakes any wind to shake this place,This wave-hemmed atom of land on which I dwell,My fancy conquers time, ...
Those men build many houses:They dig the earth, and they build;They cut down the trees, and they build;They work always ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
'Again the sun is hot and high in heaven;The rustic sweats beneath the sultry ray;The idler seeks the shady walk; ...
I will bring fire to thee.Euripides.-'Androm'.'Eiros'.Why do you call me Eiros?'Charmion'.So henceforward will you always be called. You must forget,too, ...
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
If a feller's been astraddle since he's big enough to ride,And has had to throw a saddle onto every sort ...
We can claim without elation or immodest fabricationThat the genius of our nation is embodied in our camps,And futurity's summation ...
Tell us, tell us, holy shepherds, What at Bethlehem you saw.—'Very God of Very God 'Asleep amid the straw.'Tell us, ...
Written Sept. 1791, during a remarkable thunderstorm, in which the moon was perfectly clear, whilethe tempest gathered in various directions ...
Those men build many houses: They dig the earth, and they build; They cut down the trees, and they build; ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
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