The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last;I can't resist, whatever may have passed,But must relate, what often I've ...
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
(Transcribed from "The Choir Invisible.")Above the valleys, peopled, fair and warm, Rise the bleak, silent uplands where abideWraiths of lost loves, ...
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
I Last night I dreamed this dream: That I was dead; And as I slept, forgot of man ...
SMALL, fragile, and dark-eyed was Alan's mother, Of Highland blood; her solemn Saxon mate Had ne'er been able quite to ...
Over the rim of the glass Containing a good martini with a twist I eye her bosom and consider a ...
WRITTEN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, JANUARY 25, 1859.A HUNDRED years ago, when George was King, The second monarch ...
Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harness'd in the ...
I'd rather have the thought of youTo hold against my heart,My spirit to be taught of youWith west winds blowing,Than ...
Be not angry with me that I bear Your colours everywhere, All through each crowded street, And meet The wonder-light ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
UNTO the deep the deep heart goes, It lays its sadness nigh the breast: Only the Mighty Mother knows The ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
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