The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Often in this life of ours we resemble, in our failure to meet, the Shen and Shang constellations, one of ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...
Phoebus, arise! And paint the sable skies With azure, white, and red: Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed That ...
Long long ago I went through the castle of leaves Yellowing slowly in the moss And far away barnacles clung ...
Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come, visit ev'ry pious mind; Come, pour thy joys ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Myself was formed -- a Carpenter -- An unpretending time My Plane -- and I, together wrought Before a Builder ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain In the field that is stored with its millions of slain ...
Just because we've torn their statues down, and cast them from their temples, doesn't for a moment mean the gods ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
To the tune of "Song of Peace" Year by year, in the snow, I have often gathered plum flowers, intoxicated ...
A friend sends her perfumed carriage And high-bred horses to fetch me. I decline the invitation of My old poetry ...
Hadst thou a genius on thy peak, What tales, white-headed Ben, Could'st thou of ancient ages speak, That mock th' ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
EXCERPT] ... O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
A Short Poem or Else Not Say I True pleasure breathes not city air, Nor in Art's temples dwells, In ...
How clear she shines! How quietly I lie beneath her guardian light; While heaven and earth are whispering me, " ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
(Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees.) What light of unremembered skies Hast ...
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