Poems Ancient and Modern

Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: The Vanity of Human Wishes

Cheerful wisdom and instructive mirth

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Joseph Bottum
Nov 04, 2024
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Pieter Boel, Fighting Animals as Allegory of the Combat between Virtue and Vice, 1658 (Städel Museum)
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