“There's nought but care on ev'ry han',
In every hour that passes, O:
What signifies the life o' man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.”
Green Grow the Rashes, O, st. 1 (1787)
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rāmaprāṇapriye rāme rame rājīvalocane ।
rāhi rājñi ratiṃ ramyāṃ rāme rājani rāghave ॥
Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam
“O pitiable minds of men, O blind intelligences! In what gloom of life, in how great perils is passed all your poor span of time! not to see that all nature barks for is this, that pain be removed away out of the body, and that the mind, kept away from care and fear, enjoy a feeling of delight!”
O miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca!
qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclis
degitur hoc aevi quod cumquest! nonne videre
nihil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut qui
corpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur
iucundo sensu cura semota metuque?
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book II, lines 14–19 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“O piteous lot of man's uncertain state!
What woes on Life's unhappy journey wait!”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Ó grandes e gravíssimos perigos!
Ó caminho de vida nunca certo!
Stanza 105, lines 1–2 (tr. William Julius Mickle)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Meditation
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)