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O age! Here’s something new
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O age! Here’s something new that I have filledWith old, like fine oil in a flask.A kind of verse to please men’s mouths and mindsI have invented for exploring love.I provide a model of the differenceB…

Contributor:

Judah Sommo

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

16th Century

Subjects:

Performing arts, Poetry, Humor, Aging, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Popular Poetry
The Ass’s Complaint
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Why is my back loaded with fine flour, while in my mouth there is no bread at all, but only straw? I drink well-water, though I carry wine. And the stick goes on fracturing my skull! I live in rubble…

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Samuel Archevolti

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

End of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Animals, Food and drink, Violence, Ethics, Allegory

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Popular Poetry
Lamentation of the Borderguard
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I do not want to be a borderguard, said the borderguard. I don’t want to be a bodyguard. I don’t want to be a guardian angel. I don’t want to be a guide. I want not to be a grinder. I don’t want to…

Contributor:

Gali-Dana Singer

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1998

Subjects:

Civil disobedience, Migration, Ethics

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry, Literature
Di sreyfe fun Venedig (The Great Fire of Venice)
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Now I would also like to sing a bit, With my poor voice, Of things that have happened recently, Which everyone ought to know: Of the plague and pestilence, That have happened here this time In the…

Contributor:

Elye Bokher

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1514

Subjects:

Cities, Crime, Violence, Sin, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Popular Poetry