Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Observe this Piece, which to our Sight does bring The fittest Posture for the Swedish King; (Encompass'd, as we think, ...
This is to the crown and blessing of my life, The much loved husband of a happy wife; To him ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost ...
Having picked the final datum From the universe And fixed it in its column, Named the causes of infinity, Performed ...
When Joe Dove took his elephants out on the road He made each one hold fast with his trunk To ...
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble ...
To Miracle Some, misbelieving and profane in love, When I do speak of miracles by thee, May say, that thou ...
Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heav'n; Express my woes, and show the pains of Hell; Declare what ...
Is not Love here as 'tis in other climes, And differeth it, as do the several nations? Or hath it ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Sun and Moon must make their haste -- The Stars express around For in the Zones of Paradise The ...
The Robin is the One That interrupt the Morn With hurried -- few -- express Reports When March is scarcely ...
The Birds reported from the South -- A News express to Me -- A spicy Charge, My little Posts -- ...
Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None stir ...
Some such Butterfly be seen On Brazilian Pampas -- Just at noon -- no later -- Sweet -- Then -- ...
A Prison gets to be a friend -- Between its Ponderous face And Ours -- a Kinsmanship express -- And ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
I thought my father was far too fat - eagerly I told him so, if he was offended it didn't ...
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
What is it with Hezbollah representing barely 15% of the Lebanese Parliament living outside the government immersed in an undeclared ...
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
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