The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly hit him on the head, saying, I hit my ...
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble ...
my mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty suitcase because she kept threatening to run ...
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" ...
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...
The Sun -- just touched the Morning -- The Morning -- Happy thing -- Supposed that He had come to ...
Most she touched me by her muteness -- Most she won me by the way She presented her small figure ...
I noticed People disappeared When but a little child -- Supposed they visited remote Or settled Regions wild -- But ...
I cried at Pity -- not at Pain -- I heard a Woman say "Poor Child" -- and something in ...
Death warrants are supposed to be An enginery of equity A merciful mistake A pencil in an Idol's Hand A ...
Advance is Life's condition The Grave but a Relay Supposed to be a terminus That makes it hated so -- ...
There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed -- A Summer briefer than the first ...
Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity The shutting of the eye. Sleep is the station grand Down ...
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
It seldom snowed they said, and they were nearly right. In all of nine eventful seasons crystal white on average ...
Our Indonesian friends again exhibit strains of gross hypocrisy, it's a virus that abounds in the islands of a thousand ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
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