food (n.)
food (v.)
Smiles from reason flow,
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better.
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
'T is an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum (What is food to one may be
fierce poison to others).—
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
But mice and rats, and such small deer,
Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,
In his cell so lone and cold.
Creeping where no life is seen,
A rare old plant is the ivy green.
Blessing on him who invented sleep,—the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise.—Jarvis's translation.
