‘Slowly run from the one, the hours of lovers when parted;
While through the other they rush swiftly, as soon as they meet.’
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IN spreading mantle to my chin concealed,
Then to the wintry plain I bent my wayUneasily, to flight my bosom steel’d.But sudden was the newborn day reveal’d:A maiden came, in heavenly bright array,Like the fair creatures of the poet’s layIn realms of song. My yearning heart was heal’d.Yet turn’d I thence, till she had onward pass’d,While closer still the folds to draw…
WHAT makes time short to me?
What makes it long and spiritless?‘Tis idleness!What brings us to debt?To delay and forget!What makes us succeed?Decision with speedHow to fame to ascend?Oneself to defend!
Blamed us in ev’ry way,
Enough can never say.Men, overcome by drunkenness,Are wont to lie till day;And yet I find my drunkennessAll night-time make me stray;For, oh! ’tis Love’s sweet drunkennessThat maketh me its prey,Which night and day, and day and night,My heart must needs obey,–A heart that, in its drunkenness,Pours forth full many a lay,So that no trifling drunkennessCan…
ONCE two persons uninvited
For the nonce they lived united,Fox and crane yclept in fable.Civil greetings pass’d between usThen I pluck’d some pigeons tenderFor the fox of jackal-genius,Adding grapes in full-grown splendour.Long-neck’d flasks I put as dishesFor the crane, without delaying,Fill’d with gold and silver fishes,In the limpid water playing.Had ye witness’d Reynard plantedAt his flat plate, all demurely,Ye…
No door has my house,
And in and out everI carry my store.No grate has my kitchen,No kitchen my grate;Yet roasts it and boils itBoth early and late.My bed has no trestles,My trestles no bed;Yet merrier momentsNo mortal e’er led.My cellar is lofty,My barn is full deep,From top to the bottom,–There lie I and sleep.And soon as I waken,All moves…
HARD ’tis on a fox’s traces
Hopeless utterly the chase is,If his flight the huntsman aids.And so ’tis with many a wonder,(Why A B make Ab in fact,)Over which we gape and blunder,And our head and brains distract.