The Little Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold.Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold.To this the god of love ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold.Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold.To this the god of love ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore,Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store;Each FAIR, with anxious look, ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared,Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared.IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool,To dark suspicion grown ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,How many round attribute all their cares!In these howe'er I never can believe,And ...
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring;As proof, Candaules' story we will bring;In folly's scenes the king was truly great:His ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;—A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;It seems a prudent woman he had wed,With beauty that ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold,Against its owner's will, the fleeceWho troubled by the itching smartOf Cupid's irritating dart,Eager awaits ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed,The sort of lover, avaricious named;And if in opposites we reason see,The liberal in ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise,That most forgot from which true bliss would riseWhen marriage for a daughter ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale,In which (though true, decorum must prevail),The subject from a picture shall arise,That by ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told,Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled;With beauteous objects in abundance blessed.No country round so ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind;A triple engine prove in love we find;By these the strongest fortresses are gainedE'en ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know,Who can success, like gentle Cupid show;His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles,Engaging looks, ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;A lad quite ignorant ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer:Of France the pride and honour I aver;The Holy Ampoule and delicious wine,Which ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new;The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue;His large domains howe'er were not the cause,Nor ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled):Six months his better half he left with child,A simple, comely, modest, youthful ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears;And does not flee when beauty first appears.Ye FAIR, with charms divine, I ...
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road,Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode;Small sums were charged; few guests the ...
BY master Francis clearly 'tis expressed:The folks of Papimania are blessed;True sleep for them alone it seems was madeWith US ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man;In this, t'include the woman is my plan.I cannot guess why Rome will ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array,A younger brother homeward bent his way,Not much improved, as frequently the caseWith ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last;I can't resist, whatever may have passed,But must relate, what often I've ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at easeBoth names and titles, freely as they please.It costs them scarcely any thing, ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;Agiluf was the noble monarch's name;Teudelingua he married, ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale;Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail;Men, gods, and all, his ...
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