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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "while his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain"
Last Line: The brain has had little or nothing to do
Subject(s): Italy;reason;talk; Italians;intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals
First Line: "while his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain"
Last Line: The brain has had little or nothing to do
Subject(s): Italy;reason;talk; Italians;intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals
WHILE his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain
The hairs of his head, and the reason is plain:
The jaws have been hard at work all his life through,
The brain has had little or nothing to do.
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