Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 06 – Origins And Savage Period Of Mankind (Lucretius Poems)
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit! When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!-- 'Pears like ...
Two men, well versed in use of arms, Set out, 'tis said, in search of game.Each felt that hunting had its ...
From the idyll "Wild Thorn and Lily"O Maytime woods! O Maytime lanes and hours!And stars, that knew how often there ...
I. When April comes, and pelts with buds And apple-blooms each orchard space, And takes the dog-wood-whitened woods With rain and sunshine of her ...
For Donald ClarkDrugged and drowsy but not asleepI heard my blind roommate's daughterhelping her with her meal:"What's that? Squash?""No. It's ...
Pink pueblos line the plazalittered with a motley crewfronts the waning fall fiestaas the sunset clouds imbruethe skyline streaming bloodand ...
Oh the dear summer evening! How the air is mellow with the delicate breath of flowers and wafts of hay ...
They climbed the trees . . . As was told before,The Glugs climbed trees in the days of yore, When ...
Come in the hoose this moment, paidlin' oot there in the rain,An', losh me! but ae buitie on, ye limmer ...
The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,The meadow creeps implacable and still;A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.One ...
From the door of his house in the gentle sunshinethe old man, disillusioned with everything,watches the dog and the bitch ...
When throstles sing in ivery copse,An' blackies* vie wi' them,Roundy green are sycamore tops,An' meadows flower-trim,Then my luve goes a-laikin',a-laikin', ...
Here in this spring, stars float along the void;Here in this ornamental winterDown pelts the naked weather;This summer buries a ...
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
What must she have thought, when she reached into my jeans pocket before laundry and found a muskrat paw I ...
WHEN the wind works against us in the dark, And pelts with snow The lowest chamber window on the east, ...
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...
After the kill, there is the feast. And toward the end, when the dancing subsides and the young have sneaked ...
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