King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
There's nothing grieves me, but that Age should haste, That in my days I may not see thee old, That ...
When I came forth this morn I saw Quite twenty cloudlets in the air; And then I saw a flock ...
WHAT moves that lonely man is not the boom Of waves that break agains the cliff so strong; Nor roar ...
It's all a farce,-these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the ...
She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away -- Intending to return -- But not so soon ...
We took turns Watching seagulls there Walking on A tilted shore Of ancient waves And modern ships Sparkling in a ...
We were water babes, born in the arms of a sparkling brook that patiently took us into its heart. At ...
Called The Hon 'Lizard Gizzard' with aptness bearing fruit from his septic yellow face to his pinstripe business suit, famous ...
O all the little rivers that run to Hudson's Bay, They call me and call me to follow them away. ...
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in ...
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Song (Act II, Scene I, lines 65-80) A sunny shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted : ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
The sleepy sound of a tea-time tide Slaps at the rocks the sun has dried, Too lazy, almost, to sink ...
Though not a breath can enter here, I know the wind blows fresh and free; I know the sun is ...
Brightly the sun of summer shone, Green fields and waving woods upon, And soft winds wandered by; Above, a sky ...
'O cast away your sorrow; -- A while, at least, be gay! If grief must come tomorrow, At least, be ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, ...
SOME have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow. ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
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