The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
LOVE, thou art best of Human Joys, Our chiefest Happiness below; All other Pleasures are but Toys, Musick without Thee ...
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
"You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as ...
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain --and back in rain. I have ...
I OBSERVE: "Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John's balloon Or an ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
My mother never heard of Freud and she decided as a little girl that she would call her husband Dick ...
Can I explain this to you? Your eyes are entrances the mouths of caves I issue from wonderful interiors upon ...
Relax. This won't last long. Or if it does, or if the lines make you sleepy or bored, give in ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally ...
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
I shall know why -- when Time is over -- And I have ceased to wonder why -- Christ will ...
The man whose term we would remember as our longest, constant serving Head of State, besides the late Sir Robert ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
The dung was recent, not an event unusual in itself but difficult to explain of cows grazing the other side ...
It would have been love, I am sure of it, and I held her hand torn between concern and pride ...
Somebody please explain, can you help me understand; I've watched the weather radar creep its colours on the screen and ...
It happened by Bretton Wood (although that wasn't it's real name) and I recall a clear, grey dawn and the ...
I Everyone has their own peculiar price, not quantifiable in currency. When my hypodermic grazed your vein, you confessed yours. ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
"Old things need not be therefore true," O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought ...
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, The sweep of each sad lost wave, The dwindling boom ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
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