The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
Tonight at Fu-chou, this moon she watches Alone in our room. And my little, far-off Children, too young to understand ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark Makes its mark On the flowers, and the misty morning grieves ...
Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land, Along a path I had not traced and could ...
The Frost was never seen -- If met, too rapid passed, Or in too unsubstantial Team -- The Flowers notice ...
She bore it till the simple veins Traced azure on her hand -- Til pleading, round her quiet eyes The ...
Where were you Shirley of the Sanguine Lake? Where did you disappear? The echoes of your empty house Were almost ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring-birds are on the wing- And Winter slumbering ...
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
I saw her crop a rose Right early in the day, And I went to kiss the place Where she ...
The castle clock had tolled midnight: With mattock and with spade, And silent, by the torches' light, His corse in ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
"Why?" Because all I haply can and do, All that I am now, all I hope to be,-- Whence comes ...
I wonder how you feel to-day As I have felt since, hand in hand, We sat down on the grass, ...
I Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle ...
AS on the banks o' wandering Nith, Ae smiling simmer morn I stray'd, And traced its bonie howes and haughs, ...
SIR, as your mandate did request, I send you here a faithfu' list, O' gudes an' gear, an' a' my ...
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