The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale,In which (though true, decorum must prevail),The subject from a picture shall arise,That by ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale,In which (though true, decorum must prevail),The subject from a picture shall arise,That by ...
THE GLOVED and jewelled bards who sing Of Pippa, Maud, and Dorothea,Have hardly done the handsome thing For you, my inky Cytherea.Flower ...
River, ripples, and waves, these three,When emerging, arise from the ocean itself.When disappearing, they disappear into the ocean itself.Habitual thinking, ...
What do you search for in this humid dungeon, you, my friend,My dear father, you who reached the threshold of ...
With love of my own race I cling unto my country,Whatever dubious reason may protesting cry;The shame alone of all ...
O wretched race of men, to space confined!What honour can ye pay to him, whose mindTo that which lies beyond ...
My shadow, penetrated by dewy pastures,by constellations imprisoned in farmhouses,the breathing of sleeping menin their temporary tombs,advances down a road ...
This flint, time out of mind, has there abode,Where crystal streams make their continual road.Yet it abides a flint as ...
The god Is near, and hard to grasp. But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well. Eagles ...
1. Mender ARE there any as tender as the day with the night in its arms ...
1 Who'll be honoured and praised,who'll be ...
[According to Maori mythology, the god Tiki created Man by taking apiece of clay and moistening it with his own ...
AND have you penetrated up to this, Ye enterprising souls, for lucre's sake!These wilds not wild enough your feet to ...
MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the ...
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford, the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand with their ...
The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart; the secret thoughts he harbored against me I also ...
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
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