Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
A Gentleman, most wretched in his Lot, A wrangling and reproving Wife had got, Who, tho' she curb'd his Pleasures, ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
At first she was sure it was just a bit of dried strawberry juice, or a fleck of her mother's ...
Because finally the personal is all that matters, we spend years describing stones, chairs, abandoned farmhouses- until we're ready. Always ...
Sing out, my soul, thy songs of joy; Sing as a happy bird will sing Beneath a rainbow's lovely arch ...
The Trees like Tassels -- hit -- and swung -- There seemed to rise a Tune From Miniature Creatures Accompanying ...
The Lamp burns sure -- within -- Tho' Serfs -- supply the Oil -- It matters not the busy Wick ...
I worked for chaff and earning Wheat Was haughty and betrayed. What right had Fields to arbitrate In matters ratified? ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
Seven tailored suits, matching shoes and socks, a brace of muted ties with subtle breast pocket handkerchiefs descried, you wouldn't ...
My enemy my friend whom I know without compromise, when I listened to the deconstructions avowed of you as your ...
For more than a billion years we've been nearly out of water; sincerely, a need repeatedly exposed in calamitous reports ...
What is it with Hezbollah representing barely 15% of the Lebanese Parliament living outside the government immersed in an undeclared ...
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
"There is no God," the wicked saith, "And truly it's a blessing, For what He might have done with us ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of Frost, through the absence of objects ...
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...
And I start wondering how they came to be blind. If it was congenital, they could be brothers and sister, ...
Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth, Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way And faint before ...
...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ...
When He appoints to meet thee, go thou forth- It matters not If south or north, Bleak waste or sunny ...
When weary with the long day's care, And earthly change from pain to pain, And lost and ready to despair, ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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