The Gascon Punished (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)Was played a wily trick, and nicely ...
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)Was played a wily trick, and nicely ...
LYDIA.Now twenty springs had cloth'd the Park with green,Since Lydia knew the blossom of fifteen;No lovers now her morning hours ...
Majestic insect! from thy royal hum, The flies retreat, or starve before they'll come; The obedient plough-horse may, devoid of fear, Perform his ...
Where the violet shadows brood Under cottonwoods and beeches, Through whose leaves the restless reaches Of the river glance, I've stood, While the red-bird ...
When, in that hour which saw us part, My faltering voice refused to tell The anguish of an aching heart, From thy sweet ...
(Written in her eleventh year.)THE MOON.Lo! yonder rides the empress of the night!Unveil'd she casts around her silver light;Cease not, ...
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
I. When Fate its utmost Cruelty had shown, And the Illustrious Charles was now no more, Th' Illustrious Charles, ...
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
A CURIOUS vision, on mine eyes unfurledIn the deep night. I saw, or seemed to see,Two Centuries meet, and sit ...
The foaming stream from out the rock With thunder roar begins to rush,—The oak falls prostrate at ...
I said this morning, as I leaned and threwMy shutters open to the Spring's surprise,"Tell me, O Earth, how is ...
"(On reflecting that the world is ready to go to war again)Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.Breed faster, ...
Roll on, ye starts! exult in youthful prime,Mark with bright curves the printless steps of time;Near and more near your ...
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
Must I approach Silence loudly Not to infringe? Did I steal his thunder In church, yesterday Inner voice, unspoken Thought, ...
Resembles Life what once was held of Light, Too ample in itself for human sight ? An absolute Self--an element ...
The foaming stream from out the rock With thunder roar begins to rush,-- The oak falls prostrate at the shock, ...
(On reflecting that the world is ready to go to war again) Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out. ...
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