Of The Nature Of Things: Book VI – Part 04 – The Plague Athens (Lucretius Poems)
'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas suchMortal miasma in Cecropian landsWhilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,Unpeopled the ...
'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas suchMortal miasma in Cecropian landsWhilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,Unpeopled the ...
IHe walked under the shadow of the HillWhere men are fed into the firesAnd walled apart…Unarmed and alone,He summoned his ...
The Hoosier Folk-Child--all unsung-- Unlettered all of mind and tongue; Unmastered, unmolested--made Most wholly frank and unafraid: Untaught of any school--unvexed Of law or creed--all ...
Spring!And her hidden bugles up the street.Spring -- and the sweetLaughter of winds at the crossing;Laughter of birds and a ...
1I reached heaven and it was syrupy.It was oppressively sweet.Croaking substances stuck to my knees.Of all substances St. Michael was ...
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean,The track aches only when the rain reminds.The one-legged man forgets his leg of ...
I met my butt in a Pittsburghhotel room. My facestill looks like my facebut not my butt, my hairno longer ...
When I was a lad I went to seaAnd they made a cabin boy of me.Yo ho, haul away, my ...
Rebuked, she turned and ranuphill to the barn. Anger, the innerarsonist, held a match to her brain.She observed her life: ...
. . . party on the stage of the Earl Carroll Theatre onFeb. 23. At this party Joyce Hawley, a ...
She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That ...
Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, The floors are sunken, cobwebs hang, And cracks creep; worms have ...
If you danced from midnight to six A.M. who would understand? The runaway boy who chucks it all to live ...
I to a crumpled cabin came upon a hillside high, And with me was a withered dame As weariful as ...
That boy I took in the car last night, With the body that awfully sagged away, And the lips blood-crisped, ...
(The Dark Side) My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out, Eight days of hunger, ...
You bring me good news from the clinic, Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight white Mummy-cloths, smiling: I'm ...
She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon ...
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...
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