The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed,The sort of lover, avaricious named;And if in opposites we reason see,The liberal in ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed,The sort of lover, avaricious named;And if in opposites we reason see,The liberal in ...
As soon as thou art sick, without delay,For some good clergyman expressly send,Who may for thee to thy Creator pray,And ...
Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made thy music; ...
Will Piggot must to Coxwould go,To live, alas! in want,Unless Sir Thomas say, No, no,Th' allowance is too scant.The gracious ...
Addressed To PhysiciansO YE ! of our forms who have studied the laws,And found for each sense and each organ ...
In our own native land a Hospital stands, Its praises I faintly would speak;To me it seems grand, enclosed in love's ...
What wonderfully delicious wine is this,Which the cupbearer, with welcome, presents!The laughing of the bud in the parterre were impossible,Did ...
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn our view,And yield the praise to worth and science due,But this with serious ...
Onward he passed, Exceeding sorrowful, seeing how men Fear so to die they are afraid to fear, ...
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powersHas come across the ocean To harm this land of ours;And heresies ...
A dozen years since in this house what commotion, What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado;Every soul in the ...
Christopher Robin Had wheezlesAnd sneezles,They bundled him Into His bed.They gave him what goesWith a cold in the nose,And some ...
The Passionate Householder to his LoveCome, live with us and be our cook,And we will all the whimsies brookThat German, ...
Beyond the city wallsIn the open sun and shade, in pebbles and water.In lagoons, valleys, woods and forests,Mountains after mountains,The ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain, Lest sorrow lend me ...
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain; Lest sorrow lend me ...
Alas! the people now do sigh and moan For the loss of Wm. Ewart Gladstone, Who was a very great ...
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