Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 02 – Against Teleological (Lucretius Poems)
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
I would not sin, in this half-playful strain,--Too light perhaps for serious years, though bornOf the enforced leisure of slow ...
ITHE IVORY CRADLEThe cradle I have made for theeIs carved of orient ivory,And curtained round with wavy silkMore white than ...
"To the winds give our banner!Bear homeward again!"Cried the Lord of Acadia,Cried Charles of Estienne;From the prow of his shallopHe ...
NOW the earth in fields and hillsStirs with pulses of the Spring,Next-embowering hedges ringWith interminable trills;Sunlight runs a race with ...
Feb. 22, 1732BRIGHT natal morn! what face appearsBeyond the rolling mist of years?A face whose loftiest traits, combineAll virtues of ...
UP the hillside, down the glen,Rouse the sleeping citizen;Summon out the might of men!Like a lion growling low,Like a night-storm ...
MIDNIGHT was on the mountains, Midnight was on the town,And sleep, the balmy seraph, Came sweetly, gently down,Sealing the lids of sorrow, Hushing ...
ON HIS BIRTHDAYI need not praise the sweetness of his song, Where limpid verse to limpid verse succeedsSmooth as our Charles, ...
THRICE welcome to thy sisters of the East,To the strong tillers of a rugged home,With spray-wet locks to Northern winds ...
When the rose is brightest,its bloom will soonest die;when burns the meteor brightest,'t will vanish from the sky.If death but ...
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Oh, my shoulders grow aweary of the burdens I am bearin',An' I grumble when I'm footsore at the rough road ...
As I came down from Lebanon, Came winding, wandering slowly down Through mountain passes bleak and brown, The cloudless day ...
When the wayside tangles blazeIn the low September sun,When the flowers of Summer daysDroop and wither, one by one,Reaching up ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Here is the place; right over the hill Runs the path I took; You can see the gap in the ...
I write my name as one, On sands by waves o'errun Or winter's frosted pane, Traces a record vain. Oblivion's ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
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