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 ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Exert thy Voice, sweet Harbinger of Spring! This Moment is thy Time to sing, This Moment I attend to Praise, ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
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 ...
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on ...
Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in ...
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five. There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice ...
To the Celestial Numbers To this our world, to Learning, and to Heav'n, Three Nines there are, to every one ...
But let us leave Queen Mab a while, Through many a gate, o'er many a stile, That now had gotten ...
Eternal and all-working God, which wast Before the world, whose frame by Thee was cast, And beautified with beamful lamps ...
O why should Nature niggardly restrain That foreign nations relish not our tongue? Else should my lines glide on the ...
This is not the way I am. Really, I am much taller in person, the hairline I conceal reaches back ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own; For sure our souls ...
Upon this Primrose hill, Where, if Heav'n would distil A shower of rain, each several drop might go To his ...
I am two fools, I know- For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman that ...
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, ...
One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There's only one recorded, But both belong to ...
My beloved called to me to come and see Steve's tears, he was crying on TV; Steve Irwin, The Crocodile ...
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
I do not question whether I am happy or unhappy. Yet there is one thing that I keep gladly in ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
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