CULTURAL EXPLORATION
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A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Classical images of ships, Greece, Rome, and Psyche make beauty a guiding presence that leads a weary wanderer home.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
to infer a broader change from one early sign
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Before a sea voyage the speaker argues that absence would only deserve pity if it truly left them apart, refuses to beg wind or wave for favour, and claims that their faith meets above the highest sphere as spirits greet.
A soldier frames departure for war as a conflict between love and honour, insisting that constancy to honour makes his love more worthy.
In muddy winter weather the speaker asks a friend where they may meet by the fire to redeem a sullen day with a light meal, wine, lute and song, concluding that one who can judge such delights and take them from time to time is not unwise.
An address to Spring, urging the season to turn its eyes on the western isle, come over the eastern hills, and adorn a land described as lovesick and mourning in its absence.
The speaker searches heaven, earth, air and sea for the Nine Muses and ends by complaining that since they left, poetry's strings barely move and its notes are few.
Flowers, the sun’s daily race, and passing age form a countdown toward the poem’s explicit counsel to marry before youth is spent.
The speaker envies the west wind that has kissed Perenna's lip and fanned her hair, and offers to embalm its wings and set them with flowers in exchange for one such kiss.
Violets are greeted as maids of honour who bring in the spring and are ranked ahead of the damask roses, until the last stanza notes that they will shortly lie neglected.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.