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 ...
With the thirty pieces of silver,They bought the Potter's Field;For none would have the blood-moneyAnd the interest it might yield.The ...
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe ...
XXIIt was amazement, wonder and delight,Although not love, that moved his cruel sense;'Tell on,' quoth he, 'unfold the chance aright,Thy ...
Once more Lake Como's storied isle Reveals the Roman past!Again a stone of classic style The spade hath upward cast;How can such ...
Young Knight, the lists are set to-day!Hereafter shall be time to prayIn sepulture, with hands of stone.Ride, then! outride the ...
Whan that Bachus, the myghti lorde,And Juno eke, both by one accorde,Hath sette a-broche of myghti wyne a tone,And after ...
(NORTHERN MEXICO, 1640)As you look from the plaza at Leon westYou can see her house, but the view is bestFrom ...
A was an apt Alligator, Who wanted to be a head-waiter; He said, "I opine In that field ...
Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife,Upon my word I do not heed 'em; ...
Now the high holocaust of hours is done,And all the west empurpled with their death,How swift oblivion drinks the fallen ...
O folz des folz, et les folz mortelz hommes,Qui vous fiez tant ?s biens de fortune!En celle terre, ?s pays ...
As Phebus bricht in speir merediane,E of the warld, and lamp Etheriall,Passis the licht that cleipit is Dyane,Quhen scho is ...
Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife, Upon my word I do not heed 'em; In bed I lie With ...
The Dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the Grass, And Winter instantly becomes An infinite Alas -- The tube uplifts a signal ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...
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