Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.
Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.
The man of life upright,/ Whose guiltless heart is free/ From all dishonest deeds/ Or thought of vanity.
The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toys, / They shorten tedious nights.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
When thou must home to shades of underground, / And there arrived, a new admirèd guest, / The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round, / White Iope, blithe Helen, and the rest.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.