Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
Silvia, let's from the Crowd retire; For, What to you and me (Who but each other do desire) Is all ...
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster I Mark how the ...
Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
The Spirit lasts -- but in what mode -- Below, the Body speaks, But as the Spirit furnishes -- Apart, ...
Me from Myself -- to banish -- Had I Art -- Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart -- But since ...
I make His Crescent fill or lack -- His Nature is at Full Or Quarter -- as I signify -- ...
Ambition cannot find him. Affection doesn't know How many leagues of nowhere Lie between them now. Yesterday, undistinguished! Eminent Today ...
A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis -- To meet an Antique Book -- In just the Dress his Century ...
I gave myself to Him -- And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this ...
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Are there two things, of all which men possess, That are so like each other and so near, As mutual ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
Tomorrow's Thursday again, swept with the days' meandering flow: this, that, and the week goes, hearing time splash through cracks. ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
Far, far away is mirth withdrawn 'Tis three long hours before the morn And I watch lonely, drearily - So ...
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