Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 04 – Formation Of The World (Lucretius Poems)
But in what modes that conflux of first-stuffDid found the multitudinous universeOf earth, and sky, and the unfathomed deepsOf ocean, ...
But in what modes that conflux of first-stuffDid found the multitudinous universeOf earth, and sky, and the unfathomed deepsOf ocean, ...
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:From this, engender all the lures of love,From this, O first hath into human ...
I.Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle ...
"Oh, dear, with the just unfolded tender leaflets of Mango trees as his incisive arrows, and with shining strings of ...
That night, which did the dreadful hap ensue That quite eclips'd, nay, rather did replace The sun in skies, and ...
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can ...
The Brutons thus departed hence, seven kingdoms here begun,--Where diversely in divers broils the Saxons lost and won,--King Edel and ...
The stars of the Great Bear drift apartThe Horse and the Rider together northeastwardAlpha and Omega asunderThe others diverselyThere are ...
...And many there were hurt by that strong boy,His name, they said, was Pleasure,And near him stood, glorious beyond measureFour ...
…But ev'n as many (or more) quarrels cumberTh' old heathen schools about the heavens' number.One holds but one; making the ...
Methinks I see a sight most excellent,All sorts of birds fly in the firmament:Some great, some small, all of a ...
That instrument ne'er heardStruck by the skilful bardIt strongly to awake,But it the Infernals searedAnd made Olympus quake.As those prophetic ...
PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice;Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord ...
I The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere, Waits at the granite milestone. It grows dark. Willows lean by ...
Amid the mystic fields of Love I wander'd, and beheld a grove. ...
'Friend, whereto art thou come?' Thus Verity;Of each that to the world's sad OlivetComes with no multitude, but alone by ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
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