The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
NO easy matter 'tis to hold,Against its owner's will, the fleeceWho troubled by the itching smartOf Cupid's irritating dart,Eager awaits ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold,Against its owner's will, the fleeceWho troubled by the itching smartOf Cupid's irritating dart,Eager awaits ...
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
Brown was weeping; likewise cursing; and with amplitude of reason;For a letter had been handed him that very afternoonWhich proved ...
IAll the seasons of the year,I have flowers for you, dear.When the ploughland's flecked with snow,And the blue-eyed scyllas blow,Gazing, ...
Let other bards with nobler talents sing The beauties of the mild, maturer spring. My rustic Muse on bleaker times must dwell, When ...
"What else do they live for in this world beside?" What else but for Kittys or one of the same, Do mothers ...
JonesAt a musicale, a five-o'clock,Or social jamboree, Tis there the swagger people flock For a bite and a sip of ...
Pop Montague's old brain was wried Through all its convolutions With constant thoughts of Homicide And kindred institutions. White-haired Giuseppi ...
A frost came in the night and stole my worldAnd left this changeling for it - a precociousImage of spring, ...
Give me a dad who knows his place And never gives me cheek,And a mother mild who treats her child ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
The symbols that we use are T shirts of the dead thoughts of corpses without heads, a rictus without sound ...
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...
Tindari, I know you mild between broad hills, overhanging the waters of the god's sweet islands. Today, you confront me ...
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