The Three Gossips’ Wager (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
He shows a fool in every wiseWho day and night forever hiesFrom feast to feat to fill his paunchAnd make ...
Appetite and chance, luck and desiretogether make a man's fatenot the follish lines on his palm nor the conjugationof stars ...
In youth exalted high in air,Or bathing in the waters fair,Nature to form me took delight,And clad my body all ...
Svch time as Tytan with his fiery beames In highest degree, made duskish Leo sweat Field-tilling Swains driue home their ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
BRUADAR and Smith and Glinn, Amen, dear God, I pray, May they lie low in waves of woe, ...
You'll take my tale with a little salt;But it needs none, nevertheless!I was foiled completely - fair at fault -Disheartened, ...
Bruadar and Smith and Glinn Amen, dear God, I pray, May they lie ...
HE had said, "Thank God for my body obscene,For the lust that oppresses life, choking me;Hereby shall I prove my ...
Three hundred thousand men, but not enoughTo break this township on a winding stream;More yet must fall, and more, ere ...
Full many a time a thought has comeThat had a bitter meaning in it.And in the conversation's humI lost it ...
In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. Of ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Oh, I was born a lyric babe (That last word is a bore - It's only rhyme is astrolabe," Whose ...
Three Triangles TRIANGLE ONE My husband put some poison in my beer, And fondly hoped that I would drink it ...
"Yes," said the sister with the little pinched face, The busy little sister with the funny little tract: - "This ...
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