Book II – Part 04 – Absence Of Secondary Qualities (Lucretius Poems)
Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil soughtLook thou perceive, lest haply thou shouldst guessThat the white objects shining ...
Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil soughtLook thou perceive, lest haply thou shouldst guessThat the white objects shining ...
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can ...
Argument:"Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?Silver bells and cockle shellsAnd fair maids all in a row."Isolt the White, ...
LIBERTY Liberty! — Who shall be free?—The winds of the air, and the waves of the sea,And the beast in his ...
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
Lonely musing, sadly thinking,Strength and spirits failing, sinking,Drooping, shivering, cow'ring, shrinking, In the wintry blast.Winds are howling, roaring, screaming,Thunder rolling, lightning ...
Self discipline and perseverance strong,Effort on effort, with endurance long,Make kings of men, who subjugate and swayStern empire over self ...
So! you preach me self-reliance, Emigration,— rights of man?So! you bid me breathe defiance As a freeborn Briton can?Break the fetter, burst ...
I ask'd the Lord, that I might growIn faith, and love, and ev'ry grace,Might more of his salvation know,And seek ...
AROUND us unaware the solemn nightHad hung its shadowy mantle, while we soughtTo find each other by the roads of ...
'TWAS Thy love, O God, that knew usEarth's foundation long before;That same love to Jesus drew usBy its sweet constraining ...
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...
An ode after Easter.Cast wide the folding doorways of the East,For now is light increased!And the wind-besomed chambers of the ...
October 21: 1805Heard ye the thunder of battle Low in the South and afar?Saw ye the flash of the death-cloud ...
WHAT art thou, and what hidest thou, Thou veil of fair material sense, So thin, of baffling permanence? What art ...
I hear the waters of some inlet nowCome lapping to the fringe of yonder wood,The storm-bent firs, and oaks along ...
I touched the heart that loved me as a player Touches a lyre; content with my poor skill No touch ...
For every bird there is this last migration; Once more the cooling year kindles her heart; With a warm passage ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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