The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
Doth then the world go thus? doth all thus move? Is this the justice which on earth we find? Is ...
Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come, visit ev'ry pious mind; Come, pour thy joys ...
The land was broken in despair, The princes quarrelled in the dark, When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
I like to hear of wealth and gold, And El Doradoes in their glory; I like for silks and satins ...
If faithful souls be alike glorified As angels, then my fathers soul doth see, And adds this even to full ...
To be forgot by thee Surpasses Memory Of other minds The Heart cannot forget Unless it contemplate What it declines ...
Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds To drink -- enables Mine Through Desert or the Wilderness As bore it Sealed ...
Of Paul and Silas it is said There were in Prison laid But when they went to take them out ...
As we pass Houses musing slow If they be occupied So minds pass minds If they be occupied (Emily Dickinson)
A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring In contrast with the things that sing Not Birds entirely -- but Minds ...
The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying -- this to Us Made Nature ...
How do we discover an antidote to each other, a faculty to commune in spiteful space? Our bleeding hearts and ...
I Everyone has their own peculiar price, not quantifiable in currency. When my hypodermic grazed your vein, you confessed yours. ...
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
I can scare children as the Victorians aimed to do even on an August beach tell a fairy tale one ...
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began To wreck our commonwealth, will rue the day When first they challenged ...
When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom Of artistic expression from narrow-minded bureaucrats There was a howl and a clamour ...
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