St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
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 ...
After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back one's grief, but the separation of the living is an ...
Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd, And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd, The crystal Trent ...
NEAR to the silver Trent SIRENA dwelleth; She to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
To be forgot by thee Surpasses Memory Of other minds The Heart cannot forget Unless it contemplate What it declines ...
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be ...
The first We knew of Him was Death -- The second -- was -- Renown -- Except the first had ...
The Clover's simple Fame Remembered of the Cow -- Is better than enameled Realms Of notability. Renown perceives itself And ...
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb What merit have the Tune No Breakfast if it guaranty The Rose ...
That short -- potential stir That each can make but once -- That Bustle so illustrious 'Tis almost Consequence -- ...
She dwelleth in the Ground -- Where Daffodils -- abide -- Her Maker -- Her Metropolis -- The Universe -- ...
Read -- Sweet -- how others -- strove -- Till we -- are stouter -- What they -- renounced -- ...
Lay this Laurel on the One Too intrinsic for Renown -- Laurel -- veil your deathless tree -- Him you ...
He touched me, so I live to know That such a day, permitted so, I groped upon his breast -- ...
Forever honored by the Tree Whose Apple Winterworn Enticed to Breakfast from the Sky Two Gabriels Yestermorn. They registered in ...
Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated -- Blameless of a Name -- Efflorescence of a Sunset -- Reproduced -- the ...
It feels a shame to be Alive -- When Men so brave -- are dead -- One envies the Distinguished ...
Know Celia, since thou art so proud, 'Twas I that gave thee thy renown; Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd ...
Know, Celia, since thou art so proud, 'Twas I that gave thee thy renown. Thou hadst in the forgotten crowd ...
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