Theme
Wealth
Possession, poverty, instability, pride, and social judgment.
Passage 010Henry Adams Bellows stanza 10A better burden | may no man bearPassage 069Henry Adams Bellows stanza 69All wretched is no man, | though never so sick;Passage 070Henry Adams Bellows stanza 70It is better to live | than to lie a corpse,Passage 075Henry Adams Bellows stanza 75A man knows not, | if nothing he knows,Passage 076Henry Adams Bellows stanza 76Among Fitjung’s sons | saw I well-stocked folds,—