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 ...
Passing lovely was the night, Silver clouds flew o'er us, Spring, methought, with splendor dight Led the happy chorus. Sleep-entranced lay wood and dale, Empty ...
Silence is the voice of mighty things.In silence dropped the acorn in the rain;In silence slept till sun-touched. Wondrous lifePeeped ...
MARIATTA--WAINAMOINEN'S DEPARTURE.Mariatta, child of beauty,Grew to maidenhood in Northland,In the cabin of her father,In the chambers of her mother,Golden ringlets, ...
THE FATE OF AINO.When the night had passed, the maiden,Sister fair of Youkahainen,Hastened early to the forest,Birchen shoots for brooms ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
High on the Thracian hills, half hid in the billows of clover,Thyme, and the asphodel blooms, and lulled by Pactolian ...
The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up; They looked upon ...
Spring, among her sylvan shades, And the gladness of her glades, Once in dreamy hours was straying, Where sweet ...
What spirit worthy of its noble birth Regrets for Eden and the harmless state Of him who gamboled with his ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
Greene, garlanded with February's few flowers Ere March came in with Marlowe's rapturous rage; Peele, from whose hand the sweet ...
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