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 ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears;And does not flee when beauty first appears.Ye FAIR, with charms divine, I ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name),But little preached, except when vintage came;And then no preparation he requiredOn this he ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
I never rested on the Muses bed,Nor dipt my Quill in the Thessalian Fountaine,My rustick Muse was rudely fostered,And flies ...
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
I KNEW a stream,'twas yonder, where, Now bleak and bare,There was a covert once of ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
IT was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to ...
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