King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here. No, ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
How many paltry foolish painted things, That now in coaches trouble every street, Shall be forgotten, whom no poet sings, ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Well upon the Brook Were foolish to depend -- Let Brooks -- renew of Brooks -- But Wells -- ...
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun Seductive in the Air -- That Tun is hollow -- but the ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
(Jeremiah, xxxi. 18-20) My God, till I received Thy stroke, How like a beast was I! So unaccustom'd to the ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Whereas the man who hits the gong dis- proves it, in all its simplicity -- Even so the attempt makes ...
I approach with such a careful tremor, always I feel the finally foolish question of how it is, then, supposed ...
And what is Life? An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated ...
She's gone -- and twice the summer's sun Has gilt Regina's towers, And melted wild Angora's snows, And warmed Exina's ...
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city ...
Here in the dark, O heart; Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night, And Silence, and the warm strange smell ...
Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of you, and wove Its laughter with the ...
"Oh love is fair, and love is rare;" my dear one she said, "But love goes lightly over." I bowed ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
I Behold, my child, the Nordic man, And be as like him, as you can; His legs are long, his ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
I. Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before, Love, -Only sleep! II. What so wild ...
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