Book III – Part 04 – Folly Of The Fear Of Death (Lucretius Poems)
Therefore death to usIs nothing, nor concerns us in the least,Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.And just as in ...
Therefore death to usIs nothing, nor concerns us in the least,Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.And just as in ...
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
BOOK IIThey whisted all, with fixed face attent,When Prince AEneas from the royal seatThus gan to speak: O Queen, it ...
We are the slaves of the guns,Serfs to the dominant things;Ours are the eyes and the ears,And the brains of ...
A few more years, - and they will drag my bones,And let them in a charnel-house be shed,After my melodies ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
The moonlight fell down calm and clear, and sheeted The ...
ANE SUPPLICATIOUN DIRECTIT TO THE KINGIS GRACE Schir! though your Grace has put gret order Baith in the Hieland and ...
I. LET no man charge thee, woman if thou art, And therefore pitiful, to veil thine eyes From any naked ...
I. ST. LUKE THE PAINTERGive honour unto Luke Evangelist;For he it was (the aged legends say)Who first taught Art to ...
A CENTURY since, the Mersey flowed Unburdened to the sea; In the blue air no smoky cloud Hung over wood ...
I said goodbye to the bees last Friday week,To blooms, and to things like these, for Winter bleak Was shouting ...
When I led you to the altar Vows were made, you'll call to mindDarling wife. Now a defaulter Must I ...
TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,Madness, Mirth and Melancholy,Love and Hatred, Thrift and Pillage,All are housed in one small village.And if ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
Oh if it were not for my wife And family increase, How gladly would I close my life In monastery ...
He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim. He asked me for a grubstake, and the same ...
Each day I live I thank the Lord I do the work I love; And in it find a rich ...
I sing of starry dreams come true, Of hopes fulfilled; Of rich reward beyond my due, Of harvest milled. The ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
O EARTH, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth; Lie close around her; leave ...
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