The straw parlor (Eugene Field Poem)
Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And ...
Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And ...
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird's nest Before it stained a single ...
When I spread out my hand here today, I catch no more than a ray To feel of between thumb ...
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over ...
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...
Trust in the Unexpected -- By this -- was William Kidd Persuaded of the Buried Gold -- As One had ...
I showed her Heights she never saw -- "Would'st Climb," I said? She said -- "Not so" -- "With me ...
I meant to have but modest needs -- Such as Content -- and Heaven -- Within my income -- these ...
Alone and in a Circumstance Reluctant to be told A spider on my reticence Assiduously crawled And so much more ...
A Cloud withdrew from the Sky Superior Glory be But that Cloud and its Auxiliaries Are forever lost to me ...
I could suffice for Him, I knew -- He -- could suffice for Me -- Yet Hesitating Fractions -- Both ...
I started Early -- Took my Dog -- And visited the Sea -- The Mermaids in the Basement Came out ...
What is it with Hezbollah representing barely 15% of the Lebanese Parliament living outside the government immersed in an undeclared ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
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