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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…

Contributor:

Samuel Archevolti

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

End of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Animals, Food and drink, Violence, Ethics, Allegory

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
A fountain surges from my verse’s house
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A fountain surges from my verse’s house.    Its flowing waters quench the thirst of men— A fountain from the rock of perfect rhyme,    With waters cold to please the yearning man— A flow unending…

Contributor:

Sa‘adia Longo

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

End of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Poetry, Poets, Wisdom, Ecology, Allegory

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry