The Old Tramp (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
(LE VIEUX VAGABOND) Here in this gutter let me die: Weary and sick and old, I've done. "He's drunk," will say the passers-by: All ...
(LE VIEUX VAGABOND) Here in this gutter let me die: Weary and sick and old, I've done. "He's drunk," will say the passers-by: All ...
(LES SOUVENIRS DU PEUPLE) Ay, many a day the straw-thatched cot Shall echo with his glory! The humblest shed, these fifty years, Shall know ...
There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said, Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his ...
With pensive eyes the little room I view, Where in my youth I weathered it so long, With a wild mistress, a ...
(MON TOMBEAU) What! whilst I'm well, beforehand you design, At vast expense, for me to build a shrine? Friends, 'tis absurd! to no ...
(LA MOUCHE) In the midst of our laughter and singing, 'Mid the clink of our glasses so gay, What gad-fly is over us ...
(LES PETITS COUPS) Let's learn to temper our desires, Not harshly to constrain; And since excess makes pleasure less, Why, so much more refrain. Small ...
Rap! rap!--Is that my lass-- Rap! rap!--is rapping there? It is Fortune. Let her pass! I'll not open the door to her. Rap! rap!-- All ...
Wherefore these flowers? floral applause? Ah, no, these blossoms came to sayThat I am growing old, because I number fifty years to-day.O ...
(LES BOHEMIENS) To see is to have. Come, hurry anew! Life on the wing Is a rapturous thing. To see is to have. Come, ...
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