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Stanza 29

The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes, 1923

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 29

1923
Often he speaks who never is stillWith words that win no faith;The babbling tongue, if a bridle it find not,Oft for itself sings ill.
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesPublic domain in the United States
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