The Indiscreet Confessions (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed,And all ...
FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed,And all ...
I Beneath the trees, My lifelong friends in this dear spot, Sad now for eyes that see them not, I hear the autumnal breezeWake ...
MOONBEAM, come in! Thou art a welcome guest. 'Tis long since I have seen thy silver flame. Although I left the casement ...
As Rueben wor smookin his pipe tother neet, Bi th' corner o'th' little "Slip Inn;"He spied some fowk marchin, an fancied ...
The shadows of the gaslit wingsCome softly crawling down our way;Before the curtain someone sings,The music sounds from far away;I ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
WE had a sprightly nymph--in every townAre some such sprights, who wander up and down;She had her useful arts, and ...
Unless you 'ide that axe, she sez, "'E'll 'urt 'imself reel bad.An' after all - Now, Bill, don't cry! - ...
——— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. ———The Muses are turned gossips; ...
- 1 -Once on my way from ZubovkaI met a maid with ...
Why do they do it? I dunno, Sez Digger Smith. "Yeh got me beat.Some uv the yarns yeh 'ear is ...
The forest ended. Glad I wasTo feel the light, and hear the humOf bees, and smell the drying grassAnd the ...
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
How fleet -- how indiscreet an one -- How always wrong is Love -- The joyful little Deity We are ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe. Listen here. I've never played it safe in spite of ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head, And drink your rushing words with eager lips, And paint ...
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