Brynjarr Þór
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“Grétu þá í lautu
góðir blómálfar,
skilnaði okkarn skildu;
dögg það við hugðum
og dropa kalda
kysstum úr krossgrasi.”
―
góðir blómálfar,
skilnaði okkarn skildu;
dögg það við hugðum
og dropa kalda
kysstum úr krossgrasi.”
―
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
I do not think that they will sing to me.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
“I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.”
― King Henry IV, Part 1
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.”
― King Henry IV, Part 1
“Cwædon þæt he wære wyruld-cyninga,
manna mildust ond mon-ðwærust,
leodum liðost ond lof-geornost.”
― Beowulf
manna mildust ond mon-ðwærust,
leodum liðost ond lof-geornost.”
― Beowulf
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