The Three Gossips’ Wager (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
My friends they are cutting me, one and all,With a changed and a cloudy brow;But my little dog always would ...
Each day I sit in an ill-lighted roomTo teach a boy;For one hour by the clock great words and dreamsAre ...
Ancient, wrinkled dames and jealous - They whom joyless Age downcasts -And the sere, gray-bearded fellows Who would fain re-live their pasts ...
A Lay of the Loamshire Hunt Cup"Aye, squire," said Stevens, "they back him at evens; The race is all over, ...
Trumpeter, what are you scrounging now;Is it the call I'm seeking?The dinner smells good, p'rhaps it's suetty pud,Or they're bringing ...
Wee Cluny, you're deleerit quite Ramfeezlin a' this part ...
I I would that folk forgot me quite, Forgot me quite! I would that I could shrink from sight, And ...
Unshaven and thin, with an angular face He's lain on my mattress for several days. A cast-iron shadow hangs down ...
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