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A Fable Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	SILENT and sunny was the way Where Youth and I danced on together: So winding and embowered o'er, We could not see one rood before. Nevertheless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl, A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl, One day all meet together To hold a caucus and settle the fate Of a certain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable Jane Taylor	ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door, Bringing a curious compound to explore.-- 'Behold ! said he, as from his vest he drew it, 'This little...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable William Cowper	A raven, while with glossy breast Her new-laid eggs she fondly press'd, And, on her wicker-work high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted (A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Black Mans Fable is History's Main Course Charles Jones	Ollie, Ollie in come free! Well not for me I came in through slavery! Wips and chains belabored me! God please if you favored me save me! I...	Rate it (3.50 / 4 votes)
A Fable For Critics James Russell Lowell	Phoebus, sitting one day in a laurel-tree's shade, Was reminded of Daphne, of whom it was made, For the god being one day too warm in his wooing, She...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable Of The Lion And Other Beasts Jonathan Swift	One time a mighty plague did pester All beasts domestic and sylvester, The doctors all in concert join'd, To see if they the cause could find; And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Flat Fable Stephen Colley	The earth, as once all folk could see, was flat, with naught to bound it. When truth, that sets us free, was found, they couldn’t get around...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ambition And Content: A Fable Mark Akenside	“ Optat quietem.” —Hor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballerina Fable Wallace Dean LaBenne	The prima ballerina was massive by the pound. Her graceful agility could spectators astound. She would defy gravity by flitting all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Democritus And The People Of Abdera (Prose Fable) Jean de La Fontaine	How I have always hated the opinions of the mob! To me, a mob seems profane, unjust, and rash, putting false construction on all things, and judging...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) William Cowper	A Peasant to his lord yearly court, Presenting pippins of so rich a sort That he, displeased to have a part alone, Removed the tree, that all might...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fable Dorothy Parker	Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told, Whose lover grew weary, whose lover grew cold. "My child," he remarked, "though our episode ends,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fable Ralph Waldo Emerson	The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel; And the former called the latter "Little Prig." Bun replied, "You are doubtless very big; But all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends John Gay	Friendship, as love, is but a name, Save in a concentrated flame; And thus, in friendships, who depend On more than one, find not one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fable of the Dragon Tyrant : A Sonnet of Valor and Triumph Mawphniang Napoleon	Of dragons fierce, and tyrant kings deposed, There lived a wyrm, of whom the bards had told A fable dire, of power unchecked...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fable Or History Victor Marie Hugo	Possessed of royal appetite, and feeling rather thin, A monkey one day dressed himself in a tiger's skin The tiger had been nasty; the monkey was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fable XLII. The Juggler John Gay	A juggler long through all the town Had raised his fortune and renown; You'd think (so far his art transcends) The devil at his fingers' ends. ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
God’s Existence Or Fable? L.Piddlepuck	The man-made writings were written within, were written therein, and were written without truth throughout the Bible of Christians, no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Churchwarden and The Apparition: A Fable Thomas Chatterton	The night was cold, the wind was high, And stars bespangled all the sky; Churchwarden Joe had laid him down, And slept secure on bed of down; But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Crane & The Fox, a Fable Major Henry Livingston Jr.	In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship's golden chain; Whene'er they met, the fox would bow And madame Crane would curtsie low-...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable William Cowper	The noon was shady, and soft airs Swept Ouse’s silent tide, When, ‘scaped from literary cares, I wander’d on his side. My spaniel, prettiest of his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fable of Dryope - Ovid's Metamorphoses Alexander Pope	She said, and for her lost Calanthis sighs, When the fair Consort of her son replies. 'Since you a servant's ravish'd form bemoan, And kindly sigh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fable Of Fall Connie Hess	The kiss of frost at last reveals the promises of a regal cloak; the hidden, dormant hues worn by Aspen, Maple, Elm and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fable Of Midas Jonathan Swift	Midas, we are in story told, Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold: He chipp'd his bread; the pieces round Glitter'd like spangles on the ground: A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)