The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Feed a flame within, which so torments me That it both pains my heart, and yet contains me: 'Tis such ...
The Rose did caper on her cheek -- Her Bodice rose and fell -- Her pretty speech -- like drunken ...
Of Course -- I prayed -- And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird ...
The other day I listened to a man on the radio who made uncommon common sense, 'specially since it was ...
Let's talk about the weather then, would that help you take your ease? Gossip is so rare from you the ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
Fond man, that canst believe her blood Will from those purple channels flow; Or that the pure untainted flood Can ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
Dear Lord! accept a sinful heart, Which of itself complains, And mourns, with much and frequent smart, The evil it ...
Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
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