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 ...
So much forgotten alreadySo much forgottenSo much to forgetOnce the idea of purityborn, all was lostirrevocablyThe Black Musicianin a house ...
every springas the hawthorns blossomalong the rivermy grandfathersmiling hands mea flute he has just carvedfrom willow woodhe's been dead a ...
Days of darkness, of dreariness, have come…. Thy own infirmities, thesufferings of those dear to thee, the chill and gloom ...
Beside that milestone where the level sun,Nigh unto setting, sheds his last, low raysOn word and work irrevocably done,Life's blending ...
All night funereal darkness pall'd the earth; The worn--out soldiers slumbered heavily: The anxious chiefs themselves, in grave--like sleep, Till ...
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
I looked far in the future; down the dimEcholess avenue of silent years,And through the cold grey haze of Time ...
Upon a bough, in a neglected spot, I heard a thrush to-day Pour wondrous minor music from his throat To ...
THE Room is getting cold, one gas-light burns And the fire is now a monotonous red glow ; The old ...
ETERNITY! how dread thy sound!It strikes with sacred awe profound;Can I thy theme pursue?What thoughts sublime thy name conveys,What prospects ...
The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter.I am trying, standing in the door,To discover in the distant echoesWhat the ...
She sat upon the floor Looking through a pile of letters, She took them up and tossed them Like so ...
The problem was the manner of choice (or whether there was a choice for that matter) as you had taken ...
Were meetings destined then this was one to take a leading place, the oracle decreed it fate in a matrix ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
Mornings like this I awaken and wonder How I have moved so far, how I have moved so little And ...
If two may read aright These rhymes of old delight And house and garden play, You too, my cousins, and ...
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