The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play,Which oft resumes its fascinating sway;Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or sour;By night ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play,Which oft resumes its fascinating sway;Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or sour;By night ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:Brown bread as well as white must be for ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;The fertile subject never will be dry:'Tis ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)Was played a wily trick, and nicely ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart,So great a charm was prompted to impart;To one in love, that he ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention findAnd not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;The youngest 'prentice, when he ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind!His promises are naught, too oft we find;I vowed (I hope in tolerable ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise,When men are duped by artful women's eves;Though death his weapon freely will ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to gain The ardent ...
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sunAs soon as by chance I detect That teller and hero ...
PRONE, on my couch I calmly sleptAgainst my wont. A little childAwoke me as he gently creptAnd beat my door. ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a loverDwelling in the neighb'ring town;Both racked their brains to discoverHow they best their love might ...
AS WILLIAM walking with his wife was seen,A man of rank admired her lovely mien.Who gave you such a charming ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
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