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Loss of a patient
Elegies, consolations, and night-watch poems written around deaths the art could not prevent.
How this shelf is gathered
Grief at the bedside
Built from labels and source text that name loss, elegy, patient death, bedside watching, and consolation.
Representative records
Poems surfaced from the current release.
- AD FONTEM ACIN.Latin · 16th century · English available
You who flow through the tender grasses in the shady valley, Where the grove, O Acis, draws its name from the holm oaks: You are a pleasing rest for me, and a sweet solace in th...
Poemata - AD IOHANNEMLatin · 16th century · English available
Hagius, foremost of my comrades, You who, while the Lahn nourished us in the safe leisure Of the nine goddesses, used to Often enjoy with me a not-inactive rest, Leaning upon th...
Poemata - AD IOHANNEM ALTVMLatin · 16th century · English available
Now Phoebus, having left the Phillyrian elder behind his back, slowing his steeds, makes the time of the solstice. He extends the gloomy darkness, and the longer shadow of opaqu...
Poemata - AD SPIRITVM SANCTVMLatin · 16th century · English available
As when the Lord had forged the new bodies of the world, The Spirit of God warmed them with its fire, And gave fruitful growth to newborn things, Rendering all things full of vi...
Poemata - CASPARIS CRVCIGERI. 151Latin · 16th century · English available
O happy one, now that this frame of the body is dissolved, O soul, received into the abode of the heavenly vault. Now rest is secured for you. Farewell, sweetest Caspar, and may...
Poemata - Coconas, s'exprime ainsi :French · 19th century · English available
In him, poor orphan, I had a tender father; His name is the first that as a child I stammered! In the frail cradle of that prosperous age, It was he who sought my wandering gaze...
Le Parnasse médical français - D A P H N I S.Latin · 16th century · English available
They mourned equally, and in turn mingled the obscure with the true: Equal in age, and both outstanding in verse, Both clad in the skins of a shaggy bear: Celadon a hunter, Myrt...
Poemata - D E N A T A L I S V O.Latin · 16th century · English available
My birthday is here, Schetus: I pray that the fates may preserve this day for me with happy auspices. On this day I breathed the vital airs with wailing, and I was the first off...
Poemata - E L E G I A I.Latin · 16th century · English available
You ask whence the light Elegies come, or to whose ears we bring this brief work, O mournful muse? Having departed from the borders of the land that the Seine flows through, we...
Poemata - E L E G I A V I I.Latin · 16th century · English available
For the highest Father, in the crisis of dire death, Heard the prayers of the suppliant with an attentive ear. "Draw near," I said, "and heal my pain, O GOD, upon whose help my...
Poemata - E L E G I A V.Latin · 16th century · English available
A second summer, Rüger, comes around after winter, and a second winter presses upon the back of summer: since I wept for the premature death of my girl, and the cold realms of a...
Poemata - E L E G I A VI.Latin · 16th century · English available
Now the air grows warm from the Zephyrs blowing once more, The full winter of immoderate cold has retreated. In the new spring the earth is clothed with soft grass, And the tall...
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