16. Of Gluttony and Feasting (Sebastian Brant Poems)
He shows a fool in every wiseWho day and night forever hiesFrom feast to feat to fill his paunchAnd make ...
He shows a fool in every wiseWho day and night forever hiesFrom feast to feat to fill his paunchAnd make ...
"Corporal Green!" the Orderly cried; "Here!" was the answer loud and clear, From the lips of a soldier who stood near,—And "Here!" ...
COME, listen all unto my song; It is no silly fable;'T is all about the mighty cord They call the Atlantic Cable.Bold ...
"Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,We stumbled on a stationary voice,And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from the palace' ...
, The wrathful winter, 'proaching on apace, With blustering blasts had all ybar'd the treen, And old Saturnus, ...
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
Emily Mayfield all the daySits and rocks her cradle alone,And never a neighbor comes to sayHow pretty little Cyrus has ...
There was a youthful genius once, a boy of thirteen years, Named Cyrus Franklin Edison Lavoisier De Squeers. To study ...
WHEN Cyrus, call'd the younger, fought Against his king and brother,What eunuch who'd cut off the headAnd right hand ...
WHAT bishop of Rochester rather would die,Than with Henry 's supremacy basely comply?What martyr of Antioch yields up his breath,By ...
Not to lament that rival flame Wherewith the heartless Glycera scorns you,Nor waste your time in maudlin rhyme, How many ...
AD C. SALLUSTIUM CRISPUMHorace: Book II, Ode 2_"Nellus argento color est avaris."_Sallust, I know you of old,How you hate the ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands ...
In the dour ages Of drafty cells and draftier castles, Of dragons breathing without the frame of fables, Saint and ...
Here lies the body of Lois Spears, Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke, Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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