The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift. The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, ...
"La noche buena se viene, La noche buena se va, Y nosotros nos iremos Y no volveremos mas." -- Old ...
'O WHICH is the last rose?' A blossom of no name. At midnight the snow came; At daybreak a vast ...
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings; Now on ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
We wear scars from our youth, trifling things reflecting those earnings from growing days, of battles raised and wounds worn ...
WOE is me to tell it thee, Winter winds in Arcady! Scattered is thy flock and fled From the glades ...
Every so often he vows to start a better life. But when night comes with her own counsels, with her ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
And this reft house is that the which he built, Lamented Jack ! And here his malt he pil'd, Cautious ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
Its mother being tethered near it Poor little Foal of an oppress?d race! I love the languid patience of thy ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Fallen pile! I ask not what has been thy fate; But when the winds, slow wafted from the main, Through ...
Call me away; there's nothing here, That wins my soul to stay; Then let me leave this prospect drear, And ...
To-night I saw three maidens on the beach, Dark-robed descending to the sea, So slow, so silent of all speech, ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
Long ago I wished to leave " The house where I was born; " Long ago I used to grieve, ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
Absent upon Public Employment My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more, My joy, my magazine, of earthly ...
My friend went to the piano; spun the stool A little higher; left his pipe to cool; Picked up a ...
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
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