The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last;I can't resist, whatever may have passed,But must relate, what often I've ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last;I can't resist, whatever may have passed,But must relate, what often I've ...
I.Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose,With care his sweet person adorning,He put on his Sunday clothes.II.He drew on a ...
Often, when o'er tree and turret,Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I lingerKnown familiarly as 'King's.'And the ghosts ...
Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow onUnfathom'd and resistless. God hath setHis ...
Again I hear that creaking step!--He's rapping at the door!--Too well I know the boding soundThat ushers in a bore.I ...
Where is that country? The unresting mindLike a lapwing nears and leaves it and returns.I know those unknown hill-springs where ...
Beyond the golden gateway of the West,Whose golden bars are tipped of stars,And where, beyond, there spreads a golden Land,And ...
Act II.SCENE I. Ball in the Palace of DON JOHN. Dance. DON JOHN and MARIA together. DON TOMMASO, ANNICCA. LORDS ...
A RONDEAU BY COUPERINQuiet form of silent nun,What has given you to my inward eyes?What has marked you, unknown one,In ...
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
Satan, old friend and enemy of man; Lord of the shadows and sins whereby We wretches glimpse the sun in ...
(From the French of Charles Baudelaire)All nature is a temple where the alivePillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;Man ...
Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye,"But an old man with a smooth skinAnd black hair!I had the ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
We talked with family last night, not mine or yours specifically but ours, the ones we love familiarly. When little ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
In the slant of the sun on the country-side, Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane; And a rugged ...
Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye," But an old man with a smooth skin And black hair! ...
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