The Three Gossips’ Wager (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
Home (from Court Square Fountain-where affluent ghosts still importunea taciturnslave to entertainthem with a slow barbarous tunein his auctioned baritone-to ...
THE ISLE OF REFUGE.Lemminkainen, full of joyance,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,Took provisions in abundance,Fish and butter, bread and bacon,Hastened to the Isle ...
IMaimed, beggared, grey; seeking an alms; with nodOf palsy doing task of thanks for bread;Upon the stature of a God,He ...
Why is the heaven-descended mind(For nobler purposes design'd)So close attach'd to frail unthinking clay?Fain would she taste the joys of ...
"Adam, where are you?" God's hands palpate darkness, the void that is Adam's inattention, his confused attention to everything, impassioned ...
When the sun goes down I have my first drink standing in the yard, talking to my neighbor about the ...
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