Poems by Jean de La Fontaine
To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another
... Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs ...
The Peasant And His Angry Lord
... He cried, he roared, for grace he begged his lord, ...
The Indiscreet Confessions
... Though each was conscious, if the truth were known ...
The Gascon Punished
... And seemed to shrink, least t'other should approach ...
The Servant Girl Justified
... By all means keep her then, since thus she's thought ...
Hans Carvel's Ring
... Said he, friend Hans, I know thou feel'st a sting ...
The Little Dog
... You less from this, than from the first, should shrink ...
The Three Gossips' Wager
... WIFE 'Twere surely better if thou held'st thy tongue, ...
The Quid Pro Quo; Or The Mistakes
... HEAV'N guard the FAIR, who meet with ills like these, ...
The Devil Of Pope-Fig Island
... On which she showed:-what you will guess, no doubt, ...
L'Alouette et ses petits, avec le Maitre d'un champ
... grave;s lors que ce dessein fut su de l'alouette:"C'est ce coup qu'il est bon de partir, mes enfants ...
La Grenouille qui se veut faire aussi grosee que le bœuf
... Le monde est plein de gens qui ne sont pas plus sages:Tout bourgeois veut bâ ...
Le Corbeau et le renard
... Le renard s'en saisit, et dit: "Mon bon monsieur, Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dé ...
Le Loup et l'agneau
... saltérant Dans le courant Plus de vingt pas au-dessous d'elle,Et que, par consé ...
Les Animaux malades de la peste
... l'occasion, l'herbe tendre, et, je pense, Quelque diable aussi me poussant,Je tondis de ce pré ...
