Love
Arida Canities
Translated by Frank C. Nicholson (1907) · From Old German Love Songs (1907)
Love
I have heard folk say
This many a day,
Women like not hair that's gray.
Out and away!
Small honour is hers
Who from old lovers is averse
And a young prefers!
'Tis little I care
How gray be my hair,
But women's folly I cannot bear:
New tin is more fair
Than old gold, they profess.
'Tis said they love youths through excess
Of wantonness.
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Veldeke, Heinrich von. “Arida Canities.” Translated by Frank C. Nicholson. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heinrich-von-veldeke/3/.
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Veldeke, Heinrich von. “Arida Canities.” Translated by Frank C. Nicholson. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heinrich-von-veldeke/3/.
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