The Impossible Thing (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart,So great a charm was prompted to impart;To one in love, that he ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart,So great a charm was prompted to impart;To one in love, that he ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise,When men are duped by artful women's eves;Though death his weapon freely will ...
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 ...
A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear,With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear,Deprived his wife of every social ...
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sunAs soon as by chance I detect That teller and hero ...
TWO lawyers to their cause so well adhered,A country justice quite confused appeared,By them the facts were rendered so obscureWith ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd, In Italy young Arthur laurels gained, And oft such daring valour showed ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear, With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear, Deprived his wife of ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
TWO lawyers to their cause so well adhered, A country justice quite confused appeared, By them the facts were rendered ...
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