Book I – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,Dear Venus that beneath the gliding starsMakest to teem the many-voyaged mainAnd fruitful ...
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,Dear Venus that beneath the gliding starsMakest to teem the many-voyaged mainAnd fruitful ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
Heaven's cup held down to me I drain,The sunshine mounts and spurs my brain;Bathing in grass, with thirsty eyeI suck ...
FAR in the ways of the hyaline wastes-in the face of the splendidSix of the sisters-the star-dowered sisters ineffably bright,Merope ...
Dum studeo fungi fallentis munere vitae,Adfectoque viam sedibus ElysiisArctoa florens sophia, Samiisque superbusDiscipulis, animas morte carere cano.Has ego corporibus profugas ...
HASTEN thee, Kronos!On with clattering trotDownhill goeth thy path;Loathsome dizziness ever,When thou delayest, assails me.Quick, rattle along,Over stock and stone ...
As a wild flower hangs its head and wilts Beneath the reaper's killing scythe,Ill, I awaited my untimely endAnd thought: the ...
All you Loves and Cupids cryand all you men of feelingmy girl's sparrow is dead,my girl's beloved sparrow.She loved him ...
By love are blest the gods on high,Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given;'Tis love that ...
Does pleasant spring return once more? Does earth her happy youth regain?Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er; Soft brooklets ...
I will not perturbateThy Paradisal stateWith praiseOf thy dead days;To the new-heavened say, -"Spirit, thou wert fine clay:"This do,Thy praise ...
Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of ...
Mourn, O you Loves and Cupidsand such of you as love beauty:my girl's sparrow is dead,sparrow, the girl's delight,whom she ...
Be in me as the eternal moods of the bleak wind, and not As transient ...
(* In the original, Schwager, which has the twofold meaning of brother-in-law and postilion.) HASTEN thee, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of ...
Does pleasant spring return once more? Does earth her happy youth regain? Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er; Soft ...
By love are blest the gods on high, Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given; 'Tis ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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