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A bird, with plumë"d arrow shot,
In dying case deplored her lot:
'Alas!' she cried, 'the anguish of the thought!
This ruin partly by myself was brought!
Hard-hearted men! from us to borrow
What wings to us the fatal arrow!
But mock us not, ye cruel race,
For you must often take our place.'

The work of half the human brothers
Is making arms against the others.

(C) Jean De La Fontaine
03/10/2020


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