Of The Nature Of Things: 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 ...
Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil soughtLook thou perceive, lest haply thou shouldst guessThat the white objects shining ...
There lies a vale in Ida, lovelierThan all the valleys of Ionian hills.The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen,Puts forth ...
YES, let them gather! Summon forthThe pledged philanthropy of Earth.From every land, whose hills have heardThe bugle blast of Freedom ...
One of a hundred little rills-Born in the hills,Nourished with dews by the earth, and with tears by the sky,Sang-"Who ...
Ours was a quiet town, a still town, a sober town,Softly curled the yellow roads that slept in the sun,Staid ...
1.Old Meg she was a gipsy; And liv'd upon the moors:Her bed it was the brown heath turf, And her house was ...
From conquest Jephtha came, with faltering stepAnd troubled eye: His home appears in view;He trembles at the sight. Sad he forbodes, ...
IPEAR-TREES, once white with April's garlanding,And apple-trees, whose blossoms pink and whiteWhen May was young were pictures of delight,Have not ...
Blossom of the apple trees! Mossy trunks all gnarled and hoary, Grey boughs tipped with rose-veined glory,Clustered petals soft as fleeceGarlanding old ...
As opiates to the sick on wakeful nights, As light to flowers, as flowers in poor men's rooms, As to the fisher ...
The high Midnight was garlanding her headWith many a shining star in shining skies,And, of her grace, a slumber on ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Old Meg she was a Gipsy, And liv'd upon the Moors: Her bed it was the brown heath turf, And ...
'Leeds welcomes you' in flowers Garlanding the white stuccoed tower Of City Station: red on green As poetry's demon seizes ...
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