Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 06 – Confutation Of Other Philosophers (Lucretius Poems)
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
'TWAS a dismal winter's evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO'er ...
I, an Iroquois brave,Speak from my forest grave,Where by Utawa's wave I sleep in glory.Listen, pale faces, then,Let years roll back ...
Beneath the Southern Seas, within the earthEmbowelled, the mighty earth-fires slumbered onUntil the waking time, and then, with strangeAppalling sounds, ...
O'ER the waste of waters cruising,Long the General Monk had reigned;All subduing, all reducing,None her lawless rage restrained:Many a brave ...
NAY! swear no more, thou woman whom I calledStar, Empress, Wife! Were Dian's self to leanFrom her white altar and ...
"GIVE us a song!" the soldiers cried, The outer trenches guarding,When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding.The ...
Death and Destruction they belched forth in vain, We grimly defied their thunder; Two columns of foot and batteries twain, We rode and ...
Welcome! Oh, welcome! in thy course of fame—Through rolling clouds of smoke and lurid flame,Belched from a hundred murky piles—at ...
THEN the baleful fiend its fire belched out,and bright homes burned. The blaze stood highall landsfolk frighting. No living thingwould ...
IT WAS on the fourth of August, as five hundred of us layIn the camp at Eland's River, came a ...
O for a vision of the perfect light To shame the splendour of the morning star!O for a breath ...
Mountains and vales, how ye quake 'neath His tread- Wake from your slumbers, He calls, O ye dead! Tremble, great ...
LAST night I single handed fought a gang of murderers that came To get my money or my life, and ...
The dignity of Camperdown Is not to be denied,Where Leura looks upon the town And that lush countrysideAnd comfortable, stout ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Ms. Sexton went out looking for the gods. She began looking in the sky -expecting a large white angel with ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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