The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
I went to turn the grass once after one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun. The dew ...
'When I was just as far as I could walk From here today, There was an hour All still When ...
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when ...
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea, A super-man swimming the ocean, ...
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
for Allen Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula The winter storm Off the Atlantic shook the schoolhouse. Mrs. ...
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, ...
Dey is times in life when Nature Seems to slip a cog an' go, Jes' a-rattlin' down creation, Lak an ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
The other day I listened to a man on the radio who made uncommon common sense, 'specially since it was ...
There wasn't room for sympathy, the epicentre moved too rapidly for that and even when we knew the anger of ...
My enemy my friend whom I know without compromise, when I listened to the deconstructions avowed of you as your ...
I cannot let the moment pass without a weary greeting, or retard the recent past where shadows still are fleeting, ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
1/ Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
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