The Talking Beasts_ A Book of Fable Wisdom - Nora Archibald Smith

Your Chinese use me largely in Their cookery and medicine; They know my virtues, nor deny The pr ...

Took to her wings to save her ears. 'Tis strange when some of learned fame Will prove their t ...

FABLES OF GAY, COWPER, AND OTHERS "Brutes are my theme. Am I to blame If men in morals are the s ...

Whene'er the duty of the day The toilette calls, with mimic play He twirls her knot, he cracks ...

And men your talents shall commend. I know the Great. Observe me right, So shall you grow like ...

And drink the boar's and lion's blood, Great souls with generous pity melt, Which coward tyrants ...

Unseen, attends his silent pace. She saw, that if his trade went on, The purring race must be un ...

JOHN GAY The Farmer's Wife and the Raven Between her swaggering pannier's load A Farmer's Wife to m ...

With mutiny had fired the train, And spread dissension through the plain. On matters that concerned th ...

Around he cast his thoughtful eyes, And to the murmurs of the train Thus spoke the Nestor of the plai ...

A Hare, who in a civil way Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bes ...

Her languid head, her heavy eye. "My back," says she, "may do you harm. The Sheep's at hand, ...

Harangued him thus, right eloquent: "Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, "As much as I yo ...

Enjoyed at ease the genial day; 'Twas April, as the bumpkins say; The legislature called it May. B ...

[1]Pronounced Rafe. Pairing Time Anticipated I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate o ...

Until yonder heavens and earth shall mingle, Or (which is likelier to befall) Until death extermin ...

Was heard, though never heard before, Complaining in a speech well worded, And worthy thus to be ...

"And your fine sense," he said, "and yours, Whatever evil it endures, Deserves not, if ...

Urged his attempt on every side, To every pane his trunk applied; But still in vain, the frame w ...

To build which thousands were employed. The shock was great, but as my life I saved in the relen ...