WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child,
In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled
Her sister-nuns around the lattice pressed;
On which the abbess thus her flock addressed:
Live like our sister Jane, and bid adieu
To worldly cares:--have better things in view.

YES, they replied, we sage like her shall be,
When we with love have equally been free.

(C) Jean De La Fontaine
03/08/2017


Best Poems of Jean De La Fontaine

• The Dove And The Ant.
• The Head And The Tail Of The Serpent.
• The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba
• The Nightingale
• The Eel Pie
• The Dog With His Ears Cropped (prose Fable)
• The Man And His Image (prose Fable)
• The Man Between Two Ages, And His Two Mistresses.[1]
• The Dress-maker
• The Gascon
• Epitaph Of La Fontaine Made By Himself
• The Joker And The Fishes.
• The Impossible Thing
• Richard Minutolo
• The Picture
• The Sick Abbess
• The Indiscreet Confessions
• The Case Of Conscience
• The Devil Of Pope-fig Island