Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name),But little preached, except when vintage came;And then no preparation he requiredOn this he ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name),But little preached, except when vintage came;And then no preparation he requiredOn this he ...
Her of your name, whose fair inheritanceBethina was, and jointure Magdalo:An active faith so highly did advance,That she once knew, ...
He fell, a slave of tinsel-honour,A sacrifice to slander's lust;The haughty Poet's head, the noblest,Bowed on his wounded breast in ...
A simple, cheerful, active life on earth,A cup I'd not exchange for monarch's chalice,In noble forebears' tracks a path since ...
A simple, cheerful, active life on earth,A cup I'd not exchange for monarch's chalice,In noble forebears' tracks a path since ...
One blindfold went, upon the narrow ridge, Of a steepe bridge, Which with an arched bitte, did curbe, and chappe A fomeing flood: Hee ...
PREGNANT again with th' old twins, Hope and Fear,Oft have I asked for thee, both how and whereThou wert ; ...
Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,Weaved in my lone devout melancholy,Thou which of good hast, yea, ...
Lady that in the prime of earliest youth,Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green,And with those few art ...
A shepherd shearing sheep one day Declaimed most zealously Upon the care was ta'en of sheep, From utter charity. How they had homes to ...
You are dying of purity and simplicity:I am guilty, love, I'm confessingthat I, intrepid snatcher of kisses,I sipped at the ...
ILMARINEN'S BRIDE OF GOLD.Ilmarinen, metal-worker,Wept one day, and then a second,Wept the third from morn till evening,O'er the death of ...
Somewhere or other, 'tis doubtful where,In the archives of Gosh is a volume rare, A precious old classic that nobody ...
"The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise."HAIL, thoughtful wanderer, to these halls of Art,Here, let her bright conceptions ...
Across the sands of Syria,Or possibly Algeria,Or some benighted neighborhood of barrenness and drouth,There came the Prophet Samu-u-elUpon the Only ...
I DREDGE my soul for buried memories.The pomp of perished ages, once divine,Breaks dawn-like over realms that gleam and shineMysterious ...
When Passion week started and JesusCame down to the city, that dayHosannahs burst out at his entryAnd palm leaves were ...
It were my soul's desireTo see the face of God;It were my soul's desireTo rest in His abode.It were my ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
Lady! that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those ...
IX Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green, And with ...
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