The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
Eph. What Friendship is, ARDELIA shew. Ard. 'Tis to love, as I love You. Eph. This Account, so short (tho' ...
The stupid jerk I'm obsessed with stands so close to me I can feel his breath on my neck and ...
Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
To nothing fitter can I thee compare Than to the son of some rich penny-father, Who, having now brought on ...
I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair And dewy feet, along the Alpine dells To lead the cattle ...
Some man unworthy to be possessor Of old or new love, himself being false or weak, Thought his pain and ...
To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone -- When One has failed to stop them -- Is Human ...
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower, But I could never sell -- If you would like to borrow, Until ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
Do you mind if I write a few lines for you tonight? I'm fuelled for sure, perhaps a bit ebullient, ...
For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace, their parent vines had all but browned and died although a ...
If I had been a Heathen, I'd have praised the purple vine, My slaves should dig the vineyards, And I ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
Know you fair, on what you look; Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes, To kindle ...
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of ...
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, ...
Since all, that beat about in Nature's range, Or veer or vanish ; why should'st thou remain The only constant ...
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
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