The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
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 ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
He didn't die in the whirlpool by the mill where he had fallen in after a wild chase by all ...
The Baron has decided to mate the monster, to breed him perhaps, in the interests of pure science, his only ...
I serve you not, if you I follow, Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow, And bend my fancy to your leading, ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
All night long, by a distant bell, The passing hours were notched On the dark, while her breathing rose and ...
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...
We met as Sparks -- Diverging Flints Sent various -- scattered ways -- We parted as the Central Flint Were ...
A winged spark doth soar about -- I never met it near For Lightning it is oft mistook When nights ...
A Man may make a Remark -- In itself -- a quiet thing That may furnish the Fuse unto a ...
Good Night! Which put the Candle out? A jealous Zephyr -- not a doubt -- Ah, friend, you little knew ...
I I heard the spring wind whisper Above the brushwood fire, "The world is made forever Of transport and desire. ...
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
My soul is sad, and much dismay'd; See, Lord, what legions of my foes, With fierce Apollyon at their head, ...
The first seen in the season Nitens et roboris expers Turget et insolida est: et spe delectat. - Ovid, Metam. ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Now is the time for the burning of the leaves, They go to the fire; the nostrils prick with smoke ...
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