Another Imitation Of Anacreon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
PRONE, on my couch I calmly slept Against my wont. A little child Awoke me as he gently crept And ...
PRONE, on my couch I calmly slept Against my wont. A little child Awoke me as he gently crept And ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
I'll tell you the story of Jonah, A really remarkable tale; A peaceful and humdrum existence he had Until one ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
Phoebus, arise! And paint the sable skies With azure, white, and red: Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed That ...
My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When immelodious ...
Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...
'Tis Sunrise -- Little Maid -- Hast Thou No Station in the Day? 'Twas not thy wont, to hinder so ...
Frequently the wood are pink -- Frequently are brown. Frequently the hills undress Behind my native town. Oft a head ...
There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...
Do I really love you? So let me guess, you'll think I'm easy prey if I say, okay I do ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
I was saddened just to hear the bitter rancour in his voice, a sour hostility aloof of commonsense, and ranks ...
To glibly say that Joe was sort of odd quite missed the point. Peculiar in many ways and kind of ...
"Gimme 'n F" the spruiker cried, "gimme a U" and crowd near died, they knew before he came to, Whatzat ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
At my feet the lapdogs of desire, I wont greet their fawning, least not yet, their foul breath would shrink ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
Steve is gone, I hardly can believe the man wont cry again, I cannot credit that his energy wont bloom ...
WOE is me to tell it thee, Winter winds in Arcady! Scattered is thy flock and fled From the glades ...
THY restless feet now cannot go For us and our eternal good, As they were ever wont. What though They ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Of late, in one of those most weary hours, When life seems emptied of all genial powers, A dready ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
Like a lone Arab, old and blind, Some caravan had left behind, Who sits beside a ruin'd well, Where the ...
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