The Quid Pro Quo; Or The Mistakes (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
This to Hale in the West, from the Dean beneath his Cathedral.Greeting and health, and many New--year and Christmas blessings;Also, ...
John Alexander Frere, John,When we were first acquent,You lectured us as FreshmenIn the holy term of Lent;But now you're gettin' ...
Oh servant Henry lectured tillthe crows commenced and thenhe bulbed his voice & lectured on some more.This happened again & ...
The Puritan Spring Beauties stood freshly clad for church;A Thrush, white-breasted, o'er them sat singing on his perch."Happy be! for ...
Private Scott of the Highlanders,Strutted and swanked in the market-place.Each flap and lapel set smooth in place,Buttons polished to mirror ...
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
The sage lectured brilliantly. Before him, two images: "Now this one is a devil, And this one is me." He ...
Oh servant Henry lectured till the crows commenced and then he bulbed his voice & lectured on some more. This ...
WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie tear, wanting to look like a moll in a Chandler novel. Dinner, ...
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