The Truckers (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
Poems about equally (51 Poems)
The Two Friends (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
AXIOCHUS, a handsome youth of old, And Alcibiades, (both gay and bold,) So well agreed, they kept a beauteous belle, ...
The Sick Abbess (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
The Bucking-Tub (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
Sister Jane (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child, In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled Her sister-nuns around the ...
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 ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
The Bear (Robert Frost Poem)
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
Wild Grapes (Robert Frost Poem)
What tree may not the fig be gathered from? The grape may not be gathered from the birch? It's all ...
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost Poem)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I ...
Mr. Mistoffelees (T. S. Eliot Poem)
You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees! The Original Conjuring Cat-- (There can be no doubt about that). Please listen to ...
INTEGRITY (Gary Dodd Poem)
Integrity is standing up for what you believe in. It is treating everyone equally and fairly, acting independent of others ...
Noah’s Flood (excerpts) (Michael Drayton Poems)
Eternal and all-working God, which wast Before the world, whose frame by Thee was cast, And beautified with beamful lamps ...
Named (Stephen Dunn Poem)
He'd spent his life trying to control the names people gave him; oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. ...
Dickeyville Grotto (Mark Doty Poem)
The priest never used blueprints, but worked all the many designs out of his head. Father Wilerus, transplanted Alsatian, built ...
Song From Amphitryon (John Dryden Poem)
Air Iris I love, and hourly I die, But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye: She's fickle and ...
The Good-Morrow (John Donne Poem)
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then, But ...
Why should we hurry — why indeed? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Why should we hurry -- why indeed? When every way we fly We are molested equally By immortality. No respite ...
What I see not, I better see — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What I see not, I better see -- Through Faith -- my Hazel Eye Has periods of shutting -- But, ...
What care the Dead, for Chanticleer — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What care the Dead, for Chanticleer -- What care the Dead for Day? 'Tis late your Sunrise vex their face ...
Those who have been in the Grave the longest — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Those who have been in the Grave the longest -- Those who begin Today -- Equally perish from our Practise ...
The Day she goes (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Day she goes Or Day she stays Are equally supreme -- Existence has a stated width Departed, or at ...
The Day that I was crowned (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days -- Until the Coronation came -- And then -- ...
Summer is shorter than any one — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Summer is shorter than any one -- Life is shorter than Summer -- Seventy Years is spent as quick As ...