The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman, Some type of supernatural creature. My mother would tell you, ...
A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to ruin a piano with his fingers . . . ...
A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. He wonders if he should try to shrink a pasture for ...
A man is bringing a cup of coffee to his face, tilting it to his mouth. It's historical, he thinks. ...
A women had given birth to an old man. He cried to have again been caught in the pattern. Oh ...
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
In the 5th century B.C. an Indian philosopher Gautama teaches "All is emptiness" and "There is no self." In the ...
In the night there are of course the seven wonders of the world and the greatness tragedy and enchantment. Forests ...
Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd, And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd, The crystal Trent ...
Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heav'n; Express my woes, and show the pains of Hell; Declare what ...
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting, Bearing me far away, after a perfect day of ...
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or ...
We came to find the place contained in legendary tracts, the hidden land of fulsome wealth that we had sorely ...
"Form follows function follows form . . . , etc." --Dr. J. Anthony Wadlington Here I am writing my first ...
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy ...
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are ...
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