To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Builder, in building the little house, In every way you may please yourself; But please please me in the kitchen ...
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
"You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as ...
If he from Heav'n that filch'd that living fire Condemn'd by Jove to endless torment be, I greatly marvel how ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Are they clinging to their crosses, F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosses, Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
I have gone backward in the work, The labour has not sped, Drowsy and dark my spirit lies, Heavy and ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun, Into the free companionship of air; Perhaps with sunsets when the ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I. June was not over Though past the fall, And the best of her roses Had yet to blow, When ...
I. I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
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