The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. Of ...
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
Ah blame me not, Catcott, if from the right way My notions and actions run far. How can my ideas ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
(Matthew, xiii.3) Ye sons of earth prepare the plough, Break up your fallow ground; The sower is gone forth to ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
In the high leaves of a walnut, On the very topmost boughs, A boy that climbed the branching bole His ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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