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 ...
But in what modes that conflux of first-stuffDid found the multitudinous universeOf earth, and sky, and the unfathomed deepsOf ocean, ...
'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas suchMortal miasma in Cecropian landsWhilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,Unpeopled the ...
Friend of my dark and solitary hour,When spectres walk abroad, and ghosts have power,To thee I look to dissipate the ...
In a somer sesun, whon softe was the sonn{.e},I schop me into a shroud, as I a scheep wer{.e};In habite ...
O God of justice, health's immortal Sire!Thou Judge of all! thou raiser of the low!O hear my suit, and grant ...
DID it not answer some benign intentTo mortify the flesh, and mend the mind,The Sire of mercies never wou'd have ...
O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred ...
Thou wert fair, Lady Mary, As the lily in the sun: And fairer yet thou mightest be, Thy youth was but begun: Thine eye ...
Thou must have altered in the two long yearsWhich thou hast passed since I beheld thee, Ann!For then thou wast ...
Lord Thomas he was a bold forrester,And a chaser of the kings deere;Faire Ellinor was a fine woman,And Lord Thomas ...
I gave my life for thee, My precious blood I shed That thou mightst ransomed be, And quickened ...
Hear the choir of boy and maid,Mighty child of mightiest Jove,Thou whom royal mother laidIn the Delian olive grove— That ...
O THOU, who, high in heaven,To man hast givenThis clouded earthly lifeAll storm and strife,Blasted with ice and fire,Love and ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, ...
I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, And gentle odours led ...
Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full ...
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