The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
Having a wheel and four legs of its own Has never availed the cumbersome grindstone To get it anywhere that ...
`You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his ...
It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm The flakes could find no landing place to form. Hordes ...
I stay; But it isn't as if There wasn't always Hudson's Bay And the fur trade, A small skiff And ...
Always the same, when on a fated night At last the gathered snow lets down as white As may be ...
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Thou hast committed- Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch Of beauty or of truth, Rich in the thoughtfulness of age, The hopefulness ...
Because you love me I have much achieved, Had you despised me then I must have failed, But since I ...
Were it but Me that gained the Height -- Were it but They, that failed! How many things the Dying ...
To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone -- When One has failed to stop them -- Is Human ...
Ourselves were wed one summer -- dear -- Your Vision -- was in June -- And when Your little Lifetime ...
One of the ones that Midas touched Who failed to touch us all Was that confiding Prodigal The reeling Oriole ...
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word -- The Stars that stated come to Town Esteemed ...
It knew no lapse, nor Diminuation -- But large -- serene -- Burned on -- until through Dissolution -- It ...
If any sink, assure that this, now standing -- Failed like Themselves -- and conscious that it rose -- Grew ...
I had no Cause to be awake -- My Best -- was gone to sleep -- And Morn a new ...
He strained my faith -- Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust -- Did it then -- yield? ...
God made a little Gentian -- It tried -- to be a Rose -- And failed -- and all the ...
I got so I could take his name -- Without -- Tremendous gain -- That Stop-sensation -- on my Soul ...
I dreaded that first Robin, so, But He is mastered, now, I'm accustomed to Him grown, He hurts a little, ...
I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died -- The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in ...
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain ...
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