The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
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 ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
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 ...
Silvia, let's from the Crowd retire; For, What to you and me (Who but each other do desire) Is all ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
At last, my old inveterate foe, No opposition shalt thou know. Since I by struggling, can obtain Nothing, but encrease ...
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
"I grant you ample leave To use the hoary formula 'I am' Naming the emptiness where thought is not; But ...
He'd spent his life trying to control the names people gave him; oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. ...
The waters chased him as he fled, Not daring look behind -- A billow whispered in his Ear, "Come home ...
Perception of an object costs Precise the Object's loss -- Perception in itself a Gain Replying to its Price -- ...
Don't talk to me of War or stalk the ground our fabled soldiers died upon, I'm sound of limb and ...
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe ...
To spend uncounted years of pain Again, again, and yet again In working out in heart and brain The problem ...
(Ezekiel, xlviii.35) As birds their infant brood protect, And spread their wings to shelter them, Thus saith the Lord to ...
My song shall bless the Lord of all, My praise shall climb to His abode; Thee, Saviour, by that name ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of Frost, through the absence of objects ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at ...
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring-birds are on the wing- And Winter slumbering ...
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
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