The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the daft sun-assaulter, he That frightened thee so oft, is fled or ...
But let us leave Queen Mab a while, Through many a gate, o'er many a stile, That now had gotten ...
We interrupt the work of the gods, hasty and inexperienced beings of the moment. In the palaces of Eleusis and ...
The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far ...
God gives his mercies to be spent; Your hoard will do your soul no good. Gold is a blessing only ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
I have come far enough from where I was not before to have seen the things looking in at me ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
The frog half fearful jumps across the path, And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve Nimbles with timid ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, Across the moon the clouds fly fast, The house is smitten as with a ...
In your hidden memories There are fatal tidings of doom... A curse on sacred traditions, A desecration of happiness; And ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
Come hither, child--who gifted thee With power to touch that string so well? How darest thou rouse up thoughts in ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Young Mary, loitering once her garden way, Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day, As wine that blushes ...
From the candles and dumb shadows, And the house where love had died, I stole to the vast moonlight And ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
In silent night when rest I took For sorrow near I did not look I waked was with thund'ring noise ...
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