The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
The monster has escaped from the dungeon where he was kept by the Baron, who made him with knobs sticking ...
There were only a few of them In all the earth Each one thought he was alone They sang, they ...
Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace Disperse their rays on every vulgar spirit, Whilst I in darkness, ...
Why are we by all creatures waited on? Why do the prodigal elements supply Life and food to me, being ...
I learned -- at least -- what Home could be -- How ignorant I had been Of pretty ways of ...
From Us She wandered now a Year, Her tarrying, unknown, If Wilderness prevent her feet Or that Ethereal Zone No ...
Facts by our side are never sudden Until they look around And then they scare us like a spectre Protruding ...
Death leaves Us homesick, who behind, Except that it is gone Are ignorant of its Concern As if it were ...
Crisis is a Hair Toward which the forces creep Past which forces retrograde If it come in sleep To suspend ...
I got so I could take his name -- Without -- Tremendous gain -- That Stop-sensation -- on my Soul ...
I haven't told my garden yet -- Lest that should conquer me. I haven't quite the strength now To break ...
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -- Untouched my Morning And untouched by Noon -- Sleep the meek members of the ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing ...
The successful man has thrust himself Through the water of the years, Reeking wet with mistakes -- Bloody mistakes; Slimed ...
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Safe in the magic of my woods I lay, and watched the dying light. Faint in the pale high solitudes, ...
"Oh love is fair, and love is rare;" my dear one she said, "But love goes lightly over." I bowed ...
The longer we are together the larger death grows around us. How many we know by now who are dead! ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
All things within this fading world hath end, Adversity doth still our joys attend; No ties so strong, no friends ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
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