St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,How many round attribute all their cares!In these howe'er I never can believe,And ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,How many round attribute all their cares!In these howe'er I never can believe,And ...
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 ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;A lad quite ignorant ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears;And does not flee when beauty first appears.Ye FAIR, with charms divine, I ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at easeBoth names and titles, freely as they please.It costs them scarcely any thing, ...
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd,In Italy young Arthur laurels gained,And oft such daring valour showed in fight,With ...
AXIOCHUS, a handsome youth of old,And Alcibiades, (both gay and bold,)So well agreed, they kept a beauteous belle,With whom by ...
AXIOCHUS, a handsome youth of old, And Alcibiades, (both gay and bold,) So well agreed, they kept a beauteous belle, ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd, In Italy young Arthur laurels gained, And oft such daring valour showed ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
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