The Owl and the Nightingale
By: Unknown
4.09
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl , Simon Armitage …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"If Beauty called it didn't stay, & Virtue looked the other way. Another charge that I will file: your habits, like your looks, are vile."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined: "Be careful not to waste your life where strife & quarrelling are rife; keep well away from fractious fools."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will not last long, because, just as my song relents, love rarely stays when it descends on children's hearts, but meets its death the way that warmth fades on our breath."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
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