Song I (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Dear people, swelled in fool's wisdomAnd clinging to error so fanciful,To the skies, adorned in hosts of fair stars,Look up ...
Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems (15 Poems)
Song III (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Have mercy on me, my Lord,For a foe treds o'er me and strivesMindfully that time and againI be wearied by ...
Song V (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
To Thee, eternal Defender of all creation,I call, frail, commiserate, nowhere secure.Keep me in close watch, and in my each ...
Song II (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Why flatter thyself, Tyrant,In ways great in evil?The Lord's goodness ceases notKeeping watch on the pious.Keener yet than the keenestBlade, ...
Song IV (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Downcast midst vile sins,From my innermost heartI cry out, God unbounded!Hear the mournful plaintsOf my grievous voice,And in Thy compassionLend ...
Song VI (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Our almighty Lord, eternal, unfathomed,To Thee Cherubin proclaim "Holy, holy, holy!"To Thee too, Seraph, true love's pure brand;A fiery firmament ...
Fortune’s Statue (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
She's mistress of all:Rule of this earthTo her is entrusted;Fortune she's called.But for her, Maia's son, whomShe grants gifts, be ...
Sonnet II (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
In shame is man conceived, through pain is born,And brief the time upon this earth he goesIn life inconstant, full ...
Sonnet III (To the Virgin Mary) (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Unequalled Virgin, the second ornamentOf the human race, whose dignity has not diminishedHer humility, nor has humility lessened her generosity ...
Sonnet IV (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Peace is happiness, but war is our plightUnder the heavens. He — prince of the night,Severe captain— and the World's ...
Epitaph To Rome (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
If midst Rome you wish to see Rome, pilgrim,Tho in Rome naught of Rome might you see,Behold the walls' ring, ...
Sonnet V (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
'Tis hard to love not, whilst to loveBe sad joy, if by lust misled,Thoughts too sweetly gaze on thingsThat perforce ...
Sonnet I (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Alas, hardpressed the whirling orbsAnd swift Titan hie fleeting hours,And cleave delights with woe avidDeath might - fast on us, ...
Sonnet VI (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Tomicki, if they'd not chide himWho lights a praising lamp to LightPraised, sacred and boundless Itself,Whence every light's glow doth ...
Cupid’s Statue (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
He's but a child, thoUnscathed he'd not beWho despiseth him.Gods so pompousWere made to cavortWhere they wanted not;When he wished ...