Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 07 – Beginnings Of Civilization (Lucretius Poems)
Afterwards,When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,And when the woman, joined unto the man,Withdrew with him into one ...
Afterwards,When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,And when the woman, joined unto the man,Withdrew with him into one ...
Now come, and next hereafter apprehendWhat sorts, how vastly different in form,How varied in multitudinous shapes they are-These old beginnings ...
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:From this, engender all the lures of love,From this, O first hath into human ...
And now to what remains!- Since I've resolvedBy what arrangements all things come to passThrough the blue regions of the ...
O! HOP is a sailor used up in the war,With a single good leg to stand on;And a face as ...
Beside the rivers of the midnight townWhere four-foot couples love and paupers drown,Shots of quick hell we took, our final ...
Bats have no bankers and they do not drinkand cannot be arrested and pay no taxand, in general, bats have ...
Christopher Davis was up upon Mavis And Sammy MacGregor on Flo, Jo Chauncy rode Spider, the rankest outsider, But HE'D ...
I stood upon the four-foot way Amid the haunts I knew so well,The sunshine of an April day Was over ...
A Ballad of Good Intentions Four children played by an old oak tree, Big John and James and little Benjie, ...
Within the rough four-foot he lay, A touch of blood on breast and wing—His life-blood, that had sent away This ...
I woke and rose and slipt awayTo the heathery hills in the morning grey.In a field where the dew lay ...
I walk the old familiar ways Beside my native stream,I think of half-forgotten days, And as I think I dream.O, ...
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, ...
'Come, see,' said he, 'my four-foot shelf, A forty volume row; And every one I wrote myself, But that, of ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
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