Theme
Life and Death
Mortality, sickness, survival, burial, and the value assigned to living.
Passage 009Henry Adams Bellows stanza 9Happy the man who has while he livesPassage 014Henry Adams Bellows stanza 14Drunk I was, I was dead-drunk,Passage 015Henry Adams Bellows stanza 15The son of a king shall be silent and wise,Passage 016Henry Adams Bellows stanza 16The sluggard believes he shall live forever,Passage 020Henry Adams Bellows stanza 20The greedy man, if his mind be vague,Passage 039Henry Adams Bellows stanza 39If wealth a man has won for himself,Passage 050Henry Adams Bellows stanza 50On the hillside drear the fir-tree dies,Passage 058Henry Adams Bellows stanza 58He must early go forth who fain the bloodPassage 068Henry Adams Bellows stanza 68Fire for men is the fairest gift,Passage 069Henry Adams Bellows stanza 69All wretched is no man, though never so sick;Passage 070Henry Adams Bellows stanza 70It is better to live than to lie a corpse,Passage 071Henry Adams Bellows stanza 71The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,Passage 072Henry Adams Bellows stanza 72A son is better, though late he be born,Passage 077Henry Adams Bellows stanza 77Cattle die, and kinsmen die,Passage 078Henry Adams Bellows stanza 78Cattle die, and kinsmen die,Passage 081Henry Adams Bellows stanza 81Give praise to the day at evening, to a woman on her pyre,Passage 087Henry Adams Bellows stanza 87In a calf that is sick or a stubborn thrall,Passage 088Henry Adams Bellows stanza 88In a brother’s slayer, if thou meet him abroad,Passage 095Henry Adams Bellows stanza 95The head alone knows what dwells near the heart,Passage 096Henry Adams Bellows stanza 96This found I myself, when I sat in the reeds,Passage 105Henry Adams Bellows stanza 105The mouth of Rati made room for my passage,Passage 118Henry Adams Bellows stanza 118I saw a man who was wounded sorePassage 137Henry Adams Bellows stanza 137I rede thee, Loddfafnir! and hear thou my rede,—Passage 143Henry Adams Bellows stanza 143Runes shalt thou find, and fateful signs,Passage 144Henry Adams Bellows stanza 144Othin for the gods, Dain for the elves,Passage 145Henry Adams Bellows stanza 145Knowest how one shall write, knowest how one shall rede?Passage 146Henry Adams Bellows stanza 146Better no prayer than too big an offering,Passage 147Henry Adams Bellows stanza 147The songs I know that king’s wives know not,Passage 148Henry Adams Bellows stanza 148A second I know, that men shall needPassage 149Henry Adams Bellows stanza 149A third I know, if great is my needPassage 158Henry Adams Bellows stanza 158A twelfth I know, if high on a treePassage 164Henry Adams Bellows stanza 164Long these songs thou shalt, Loddfafnir,