The Playground of Life XIX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty And Love is worth a full century of glory Given by the ...
One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty And Love is worth a full century of glory Given by the ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
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 life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
"Faithful to the end" Amended From the Heavenly Clause -- Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors -- "Crowns of Life" ...
There was a time, I need not name, Since it will ne'er forgotten be, When all our feelings were the ...
As he grew famousâ?"ah, but what is fame?â?" he lost his old obsession with his name, things seemed to matter ...
Oh servant Henry lectured till the crows commenced and then he bulbed his voice & lectured on some more. This ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
Not solely that the Future she destroys, And the fair life which in the distance lies For all men, beckoning ...
To Ladies' eyes a round, boy, We can't refuse, we can't refuse; Though bright eyes so abound, boy, 'Tis hard ...
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