Humility before the body

Sublime art, faithful to the will of nature, Before self-interest, envy, and imposture Had subjected your laws to their caprice, A child of Apollo today avenges your rights. Apo...

MUSE, before sowing in the fields of Lucina, Deign to permit at least that my hand uproot The numerous prejudices, the fatal abuses, With which Routine and art are both imbued....

Praise be to God for guiding me / and protecting me from straying by His guidance My Guardian, who saved me from my ignorance / and my Protector after parting from my family And...

Here lies, stretched out upon his bed, A bon vivant, a bad patient, Drinking herbal tea and boredom, To expiate many an escapade. Despite my modest hovel, Someone comes..., it i...

Gather your senses wearied by the image of so many things, The lofty task stretches to ethereal regions, Prick up your ears now, and renew the sharpness for your eyes, The ingen...

Slaves of the moderns, forgetting our ancestors, And learned in pathological anatomy, We simply let the cholera patient die. Science is not made for humanity, It is enough to sa...

So I finally have in the country the little house That in my heart I dreamed of for so long! Although small and in every way incomplete, To build it took me more than thirty yea...

Already deep sleep in the forgetful river Had drawn water to bedew my eyes, Veiling them with the night: and my sleeping soul Was enjoying its rest, when Lady Anatomy, Running w...