Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
And therefore is love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere.
Helena, in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Act I Scene 1
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MYTHOLOGY AND THE CLASSICAL WORLDTexts with this theme:
- Dithyrambe, D 47, D 801 (Friedrich von Schiller)
- Trinklied (Brüder, unser Erdenwallen), D 148 (Ignaz Franz Castelli)
- Hin und wieder fliegen Pfeile, D 239/3 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- An die Harmonie, D 394 (Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis)
- Lied des Orpheus, als er in die Hölle ging, D 474 (Johann Georg Jacobi)
- An die Nachtigall, D 497 (Matthias Claudius)
- Sonett (Allein, nachdenklich), D 629 (Francesco Petrarca and August Wilhelm Schlegel)
- Gesang (Was ist Silvia?), D 891 (William Shakespeare and Eduard von Bauernfeld)
- Wein und Liebe, D 901 (Friedrich Haug)