Cruth cen chéill...

Cruth cen chéill, dóiriu cach cor:
is neime i n-órlestar.

(form * without * sense * more ignoble * (than) every * condition /
(it) is * poison * in * golden-vessel)

Beauty without intelligence, the worst of all:
it’s poison in a golden vessel.

This half-stanza comes from the poem “Nímgeib format fri fer find” (“I do not envy a handsome man”), edited by Meyer in ZCP 6, p. 267.

Topics: Similes, Metaphors & Kennings