The Cradle (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
How gayly is at first begun Our Life's uncertain Race! Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun, With which we just ...
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy. I look up our southern ...
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
"Do you give thanks for this? -- or that?" No, God be thanked I am not grateful In that cold, ...
Will they be there for you when you die? Will they hold your hands and cry until you've breathed your ...
I thought my father was far too fat - eagerly I told him so, if he was offended it didn't ...
Clean your glory glasses, scrub the lenses clean and see the puissant morons stare; garbed in common guises far from ...
What is it with Hezbollah representing barely 15% of the Lebanese Parliament living outside the government immersed in an undeclared ...
Growing up, I propose, is like wearing a dead man's clothes. Death has a way of levelling the ground. I ...
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
I do not question whether I am happy or unhappy. Yet there is one thing that I keep gladly in ...
Know you fair, on what you look; Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes, To kindle ...
It's August and I have not Read a book in six months except something called The Retreat from Moscow by ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast;- Ah would that this might be the ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
I'll tell thee everything I can: There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, A-sitting on a gate. ...
'Haddock's Eyes' or 'The Aged Aged Man' or 'Ways and Means' or 'A-Sitting On A Gate' I'll tell thee everything ...
I'll tell thee everything I can; There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, A-sitting on a gate. ...
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