A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand ...
A blackbird lands A good beer-barrel A man sits in a cave knitting A theatre in Copenhagen Abask the sea-wall ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come, visit ev'ry pious mind; Come, pour thy joys ...
The heavenly hills of Holland,-- How wondrously they rise Above the smooth green pastures Into the azure skies! With blue ...
I bet with every Wind that blew Till Nature in chagrin Employed a Fact to visit me And scuttle my ...
Could I but ride indefinite As doth the Meadow Bee And visit only where I liked And No one visit ...
Conscious am I in my Chamber, Of a shapeless friend -- He doth not attest by Posture -- Nor Confirm ...
Alone, I cannot be -- For Hosts -- do visit me -- Recordless Company -- Who baffle Key -- They ...
A Bee his burnished Carriage Drove boldly to a Rose -- Combinedly alighting -- Himself -- his Carriage was -- ...
'Tis my first night beneath the Sun If I should spend it here -- Above him is too low a ...
I never felt at Home -- Below -- And in the Handsome Skies I shall not feel at Home -- ...
As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
Let me introduce to you my poetry: it's an island flying from book to book searching for the page where ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears ...
Though not a breath can enter here, I know the wind blows fresh and free; I know the sun is ...
'O cast away your sorrow; -- A while, at least, be gay! If grief must come tomorrow, At least, be ...
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