This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
From the Tower falls the sound of bronze: the show goes on between drums argue that the glory of the districts.
But woe to him, who left to moan, reviews the hours of brightness gone.
Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.
Glory | Life | Life | Think | Understand |
When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Generosity | God | Need | God |
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.